From Harlem’s Golden Age: The Divas Who Won’t Stop Dancing! They filled the dance halls of Harlem in its golden age, performing at the famed Apollo Theater and Cotton Club with legendary bandleaders like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. They led the first strike by African American performers when they walked out of the Apollo [...]

In this musical, an East African MC, Balozi Dola, wanders into a Bronx barbershop on his pilgrimage to find “the real hip-hop.” The barber, hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash’s original partner DJ Easy Mike, calls out Grand Master Caz, who spits a rhyme on how we are in the place of hip-hop’s origins. Shop sweeper DOA [...]

DIFFERENT BRANCHES, SAME TREE explores the ways in which race, culture, family background, environment, and media influence individuals’ personalities, characters, and identities.

Meet Eva and Adamo, an ordinary bickering, elderly couple who have an unusual way of working out their disagreements — they bring them to the dance floor! TANGO OCTOGENARIO tells its story in a manner that treads the line between grim reality and fairy tale, creating a world where mundane spats and music emanating from [...]

THE AQUARIUM was filmed in high-definition video in Alaska; Mystic, Connecticut; and New York City and contrasts the views of the primal arctic landscape with the claustrophobia of captured sea mammals living in aquariums. The work looks beyond the spectacle of an aquarium to the reality of progressive destruction of these animals’ habitat. It is [...]