& Juliet will commemorate one year on Broadway at the Sondheim Theatre with a week-long celebration Tuesday, November 14 - Friday, November 17. Learn more about the upcoming events here!
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It’s not unusual for dancers to perform movement to scripted text, but “Towards Belonging” takes the rare step of allowing its multiethnic dancers to script and audio record their own journeys of finding space for themselves in White America.
Hearing the dancers speaking over video of themselves dancing provides a visceral connection between their words and the intense emotions their experience creates. In the case of “Towards Belonging,” director and choreographer Anjanette Maraya Ramey’s dance steps transmit frustration, fury, sadness, pain and gradually self-acceptance, love and the joy of community.
Produced by Maraya Performing Arts for La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival, “Towards Belonging” was filmed earlier this spring at Writerz Blok and in San Diego’s Diamond District. The dance was originally performed at the 2019 Trolley Dances in San Diego. Since then it has been developed into a multidiscipline piece with a cast and design team
‘Crazy Talented Asians JR.’ Live-Streaming May 2
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The Los Angeles-based East West Players, the nation’s first professional Asian American theatre organization, is teaming up with musician AJ Rafael and production company iStage Entertainment for “Crazy Talented Asians, JR Edition.” The event is proudly sponsored by WB Pictures.
CTA JR. will kick off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and will feature young performers Ella Jay Basco (“Birds of Prey”), Nayah Damasen (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Lucian Perez (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Delphine Huang (“Mulan” 2020), Leela Ladnier (“Mira, Royal Detective”) and more.
This will be the 10th edition of “Crazy Talented Asians,” which Rafael started after being inspired by the box office hit “Crazy Rich Asians.” The live show started at the Rockwell Table & Stage before partnering with East West Players to bring it to The David Henry Huang Theatre. With the pandemic stopping all live shows the past y
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