Event

Cultural Odyssey

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents...New music and Theater from Cultural Odyssey (Rhodessa Jones & Idris Ackamoor) and from Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids. Rhodessa and Idris will perform a separate set of "PERFORMANCE MUSIC: Well Shut My Mouth Wide Open"

Well, Shut My Mouth Wide Open! is a performance that explores the medium of non-verbal communication exploring the experimental genre of physical theatre, gesture, sign language and experimental movement and vocal techniques. Well, Shut My Mouth Wide Open is an old surrealist term of expression that Afro-Americans created when they were emancipated, due to the fact that emancipation wasnt a reality, but a much dreamed of condition that they hoped would become a reality. This same expression can apply to the situation of African American theater today. Black Theater is not yet free of the standard kitchen sink plays, and over reliance on verbal communication! According to Babbel Magazine, Out of the world's approximately 7.5 billion inhabitants, 1.5 billion speak English that's 20% of the Earth's population. What about the other 80%!