Emergence-See!
8 p.m.
Tickets: $18 student/seniors, $25 general
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A slave ship rises out of the Hudson River in front of the Statue of Liberty sending the nation into a whirlwind of emotion and exploration in this explosive solo tour de force featuring slam poetry, multi-character transformation, and song.
Award winning artist Daniel Beaty portrays a cast of 40 characters including a homeless man, a scientist, a republican business executive, a street vendor and an 11-year old boy from the projects who all respond to the phenomenon. A slam poet named Rodney is scheduled to perform in a poetry slam that evening, but is delayed by having to retrieve his schizophrenic father from the site of the ship’s rising. While Rodney and his brother go to see about their dad, the audience is treated to the poetry slam already in progress.
Through the characters individual responses to the ship and their varied testimonies on identity and personal freedom, Emergence-See! weaves a stirring commentary on modern black life.
IFCC presents this Daniel Beaty Production in partnership with Oregon Writing Project, Grant High School and Portland Public Schools and funded in part by the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Pacific Power Foundation, Wells Fargo, Roux and Peemkaew Thai.
For more information please call IFCC‘s Box Office 503.823–4322
See what The New York Times had to say about Emergence-See!
About Daniel Beaty
Actor, singer, writer, and composer Daniel Beaty has worked throughout the US, Europe, and Africa in a variety of styles ranging from television to solo concerts to theatrical productions to opera including performance at The White House, The Kennedy Center in tribute to Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, and The Apollo.
This fall Daniel completed a highly acclaimed soldout extended run of his one man play Emergence-See! off-Broadway at the Public Theater. Awards include 2007 Obie Award for Outstanding Writing and Performance, 2006 Ovation, Acclaim, & Everyday Freedom Hero Awards. Daniel is also the 2004 Grand Slam Champion at the world famous Nuyorican Poet’s Café and The Fox Networks National Redemption Slam Champion.
Daniel’s writings and compositions have been performed at The Public Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York Theater Workshop, La Mama, American Conservatory Theater, Yale University, The NAACP National Convention, The SCLC National Convention, and various other venues. His show Emergence-SEE! has been reviewed as a “brilliant, spellbinding performance” by the Amsterdam News and “a dazzling 90 minutes, full of memorable moments, intense, hilarious” by the New York Times.
