You don’t start a love story. One day you look around, and it’s started all around you." With song, dance and storytelling, internationally acclaimed artists Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor detail the love story they’ve found themselves living after decades on the road. Partnerships, politics, history, family, and food – whatever your favorite love-song, you can sing along in this show. ---- 7Stages
There's a message of everlasting love in the "The Love Project", an international tour, on a stop at 7stages, from February 25th to March 8th. The many layers of talent the performers offer on stage go far beyond the curtains, when their artistic visions meet their purpose, "hoping love will pull people into the theater", says Jones. In a time of war, Jones,the voice of the duo, insist that, "we peruse and demonstrate love," and reach those who need the theater desperately to relieve feelings of repression from poverty, oppression and disease. In their performances, Ackamoor, tickles all five senses of the audience by combining, his instrumental, choreography, and culinary skills in the show. He has been a musician all his life, when his parents began investing in his musical education as a young child. He's worked with Jazz legends, like Cecil Taylor. In, 1979 when he continued to evolve as an artist he sought a new level of expression, independent. He started his solo career when he founded Cultural Odyssey, a performance arts company. In an ensemble of himself he's the tap dancing, saxophonist, who makes a killer salad and reveals a homemade dressing recipe all right within the performance. Jones, his artistic and business counter part,is the voice of the project and it's her role to put it all in words. She sings, recites poetry and guides the entire perfomance, sculpting it into a socially stimulating masterpiece. She's been with Cultural Odyssey since a sum of three years after it's inception. Her artistic expertise is healing through theatrical arts, with projects, like the "Medea Project for Incarcerated Women", in which she produced and directed a workshop and performance with Sun City Female Inmates, with the permission of the South African government.
The stage play was written by Atlanta's own, Pearl Cleage and Zaron Burnett Jr., her husband and acclaimed "theater-man", who are also dear friends with the performers, "we go way back, since the eighties", says Ackamoor. "It's an extended family...love doesnt fit in a box," Jones gracefully explains. And, neither does their art, The Love Project has elements of full interactiveness, when it uses music to connect with the audience. Spectators of the show will be encouraged to be prepared to share their experiences of love through song sharing. "In New York, one woman sang 'Always and Forever', and the whole audience joined in, it was fantastic!" exclaims Jones.
For more informationon on the play and the theatre:
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For more information on the artists:
visit Cultural Osdyssey: http://www.culturalodyssey.org/
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