Breakin’ vs. Capoeira

Posted by on January 13, 2006

BREAKIN’ VS. CAPOEIRA ? Zen One Dance Collective upcoming performance! (Special Student Matinee available!)

WHERE: the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts (3680 Walnut St.)
WHEN: Friday January 20th & Saturday January 21st for 8:00 p.m. shows. ($20)

***A special, shorter MATINEE show, with (a 1-hr demonstration and lecture), will be held on Friday, January 20th , at 10:30-11:30a.m. (Tickets for this show are only $10).

Packed with the usual suspects–athletic bodies, death defying dance moves, and the celebration of life and struggle–Ron Wood’s stimulating vision of the fight for manhood and dignity brings together members of both the Rock Steady Crew (new York’s finest and one of the longest running breakin’ crews – president, Crazy Legs) and the Skill Methodz Crew (the illest and most creative squad coming out of Florida) to do battle against some of the top-ranking students of ASCAB Capoeira (Philadelphia’s own chapter of this dynamic Brazilian art form – led by Mestre Doutor). In a moving search for family–and the daunting quest to forger unity–this show makes the usual unusual while throwing in twists and turns that go far beyond the expected.

TEACHERS: BRING YOUR STUDENTS to this performance, which takes viewers through a series of dazzling, high-energy numbers to explore challenging social issues with important civic-minded messages. Each piece the dancers (the hip-hop b-boys as well as the capoeiristas trained in this 400 year-old Afro-Brazilian martial art) sets the stage for discussion about some tough and timely issues facing teens:

* What does it mean to be fatherless in America?
* What motivates individuals to join gangs?
* How do limited employment opportunities and economic inequalities connect with violence?
* Why might artistic expression (dancing, b-boying, playing capoeira or engaging in other art-forms) provide a valuable response to ? and means of interpreting ? pressing social issues?

Info: ZODC at zenone333@hotmail.com

Ticket info: 215-898-3900 or http://www.pennpresents.org/events/phila_pres.php $20 for Evening Performance; $10 for Children’s Matinee (This program is made possible by the Philadelphia Presenting Project, a program funded by the Virginia S. Mulconroy Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation and administered by The Annenberg.)