Thursday, March 18, 8pm Patron and Media Preview Chuck Perkins and Voices of the Big Easy, 9:30pm Cocktails with the cast Tickets $250 per couple
Friday, March 19, 8pm and 9pm Chuck Perkins and the Voices of the Big Easy, 11:30pm Tickets $20 for both Decade and Perkings Perkins only, $10
DECADE AT A GLANCE, inspired by the 1930’s Dustbowl photographs of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, was created, choreographed and directed by Joan Evans. Presented by the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre (MAD) at Stella Adler Studio, this blend of theatrical documentary, folk ...Read More
Thursday, March 18, 8pm Patron and Media Preview Chuck Perkins and Voices of the Big Easy, 9:30pm Cocktails with the cast Tickets $250 per couple
Friday, March 19, 8pm and 9pm Chuck Perkins and the Voices of the Big Easy, 11:30pm Tickets $20 for both Decade and Perkings Perkins only, $10
DECADE AT A GLANCE, inspired by the 1930’s Dustbowl photographs of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, was created, choreographed and directed by Joan Evans. Presented by the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre (MAD) at Stella Adler Studio, this blend of theatrical documentary, folk musical and new movement theater work previewed February 11th and shows through March 6th at Stella Adler Studio in New York.
DECADE AT A GLANCE is an epic story of a few families in the Dustbowl, circa 1936, who are uprooted from their farmland by drought, dust storms and mortgage foreclosure. Making the treacherous journey out west as migrant workers, these ordinary hard working people – some with hopes dashed, and dreams deferred or dissolved- ultimately join the union marches. Unfolding like a series of living photographs, the story, told from the point of view of a Dustbowl survivor, is related through songs, movement, and interviews preserved from the 1930’s. The similarities and differences between the Great Depression, and our own times, are self evident when we listen to simple people tell their stories. The gestural and expressive movement evokes images of the time. The actors sing, dance and play the violin, flute, guitar, and ukulele. The music combines Depression-era songs, union march songs from the 1930’s, and original vocal harmonies.
For more information on Joan Evans, Decade at a Glance, or artist, inc.: go to www.artistinc.org
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