Performance Ensemble:
About Kuumba Lynx Urban Performance Ensemble:
Kuumba Lynx brings together diverse groups of young people to create
interwoven storytelling and literary performances that empower them
to understand the complexity of societal issues through working
as an ensemble on the interdisciplinary production process.
Kuumba Lynx Performance Ensemble (KLPE) members research, write,
and perform their original and adapted productions for audiences
of all ages and backgrounds. The ensemble consists of young people
from vastly different racial, cultural, ethnic, religious, socio-economic,
immigrant and native backgrounds. KLPE seeks to bring a variety
of young people together to discover the complexity of their differences,
as well as the power of their unity as it relates to social justice
and the Hip-Hop Arts movement.
KLPE has been bringing groups of young people and their communities
together to create performance about youth issues since 1996. The
complexity of America's imperialistic politics and historical overtaking
makes every individual and community story important and valuable.
The stories we perform, be they painfully compassionate, bittersweet,
amusing, terrifying, are presented within the context of a unified
multi-race group of young people and their communities working toward
a more just world.
KLPE serves as a model community, one that has been reinvented in
order to fill the gaps that so many of us find ourselves falling
into within our respective communities that suffer from the ills
of gentrification, criminalization, various ‘isms’, & poverty. KLPE
creates several touring shows per year that are presented internationally.
KLPE also provides curriculum support containing State Learning
Goals, in order to better equip organizers and educators for further
exploration.
The all age’s interdisciplinary performance ensemble produces original
Edutainment. These emerging artists combine their love of Hip-Hop
and dedication to social justice with urban narratives that explore
culture, spirituality, social responsibility, and cross cultural
understandings...i.e. Kuumba Lynx creates EDUTAINMENT Performances
are available after school hours, holidays, & on weekends. Adult
shows can be booked during daytime hours. The full ensemble fee
is $1,000. Prices are negotiable for not for profits. 773-550-3849/4229
or kuumbalynx@yahoo.com.
Current
Touring Performances
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