- Reflections on Learning
- My play excerpt at the Playwright's Festival
- Robert Wallace and Total Rhythm
- Reaffirming a committment
- State of Grace
- The Holy Trinity of Music's Appeal
- Cold weather and drumming don't mix
- Cheb-i-Sabbah and the spirituality of the musical moment
- Refound: The English Beat's "I Just Can't Stop It"
- Lessons from a yogi
It's over - and what a time we had
Shotgun Theatre Lab Presents
The muertos and the mystics knew it; the Buddhists and the Babalaos knew it; even your grandmother knows something we've forgotten: you can't laugh without crying, you can't live without dying. In Cry Don't Cry, multi-disciplinary performing arts ensemble Balé Techlorico and director Christine Young put on nightshade-colored glasses to look at the world in a whole new way.
Instead of looking to the experts and the books, we turned to ancestors and ancestry, to culture and tradition, to look not so much for answers, but reassurance that we will make it through dark times. Humans have done it for centuries, well before Gutenberg published the Tibetan Book of the Dead or your therapist explained the Bhagavad Gita.
Cry Don't Cry re-examines and re-interprets traditions, songs, rituals and stories in an effort to peel away the lead paint of our mitigated daze to reveal a world more vibrant, colorful, noisy, full of joy and sorrow than we thought we could handle. So hold on for the ride, and trust that you don't need experts to tell you when to stomp your feet, shout for joy and cry in grief.
Tuesdays, Wedsnesdays and Thursdays,
Nov 8, 9, 10 and 15, 16, 17
All shows 8pm / $10
"Talk back" session after each show
Tickets and more information
at Martin Luterh King Boulevard
Berkeley, CA
across the street from the Ashby BART station
waddya want, directions?
Cry Don't Cry
A Balé Techlorico show
directed by Christine Young
Nov 8, 9, 10 and 15, 16, 17
8pm, at the Ashby Stage
A Balé Techlorico show
directed by Christine Young
Nov 8, 9, 10 and 15, 16, 17
8pm, at the Ashby Stage
The muertos and the mystics knew it; the Buddhists and the Babalaos knew it; even your grandmother knows something we've forgotten: you can't laugh without crying, you can't live without dying. In Cry Don't Cry, multi-disciplinary performing arts ensemble Balé Techlorico and director Christine Young put on nightshade-colored glasses to look at the world in a whole new way.
Instead of looking to the experts and the books, we turned to ancestors and ancestry, to culture and tradition, to look not so much for answers, but reassurance that we will make it through dark times. Humans have done it for centuries, well before Gutenberg published the Tibetan Book of the Dead or your therapist explained the Bhagavad Gita.
Cry Don't Cry re-examines and re-interprets traditions, songs, rituals and stories in an effort to peel away the lead paint of our mitigated daze to reveal a world more vibrant, colorful, noisy, full of joy and sorrow than we thought we could handle. So hold on for the ride, and trust that you don't need experts to tell you when to stomp your feet, shout for joy and cry in grief.
Show information:
Two weeks only!!Tuesdays, Wedsnesdays and Thursdays,
Nov 8, 9, 10 and 15, 16, 17
All shows 8pm / $10
"Talk back" session after each show
Tickets and more information
Ashby Stage
1901 Ashby Avenueat Martin Luterh King Boulevard
Berkeley, CA
across the street from the Ashby BART station
waddya want, directions?
