East London West Sydney is a new hip-hop theatre project led by artist from the hip hop and urban cultures of the UK and Australia. These artists expore the urban experience and struggles, and share an emphasis on word flow, stroytelling and place. Working through parallels and divergences – in tone, theme, cultural mix and forms of expression – the project’s emphasis is survival and creativity at the margins of the city.
Utilising a performance framework and engaging other art forms and technologies, UK and Sydney’s hip-hop cultures will converge, exchange and co-create: amplifying voices, pushing the boundaries of the form, and bringing a new form of expression to international attention.
DETAILS
Artistic Director Jonzi D and two of the UK’s prominent emerging Hip Hop practitioners – Sarah Sayeed and Maxwell Golden – will be flown to Sydney to work with local Sydney-based Hip Hop artists including MC Trey, SistaNative, BrothaBlack, Omar Musa and Farid Farid. Together with a professional and creative team including a dramaturg, video artists, and sound designers the group will devise and create a new work to be presented in a Sydney venue in a 2010 performance season.
SNEAK PREVIEW
In news just in, we can confirm that there will be a work-in-progress showing at the Tom Mann Theatre in Surry Hills at 8pm on Tuesday 18 August. Contact Tiggy (details below) for more information.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
For more information contact Antigone ‘Tiggy’ Foster at ICE on 9897 5744 or email antigone.foster@ice.org.au
