The Living Word Project (LWP) creates verse-based work that is spoken through the body, illustrated by visual and sonic scores, and in communication with the important social issues and movements of the immediate moment.
LWP is the theater’s connection from Shakespeare’s quill to Kool Herc’s turntables; from Martha Graham’s cupped hand to Nelson Mandela’s clenched fist: a new voice for a new politic. The Repertory Works of the LWP premiere at either the Living Word Festival or the Hip Hop Theater Festival Bay Area, then tour nationally and internationally year round, and are presented before audiences numbering over 100,000.
LIFE is LIVING is a national campaign that uses a new form of green spoken story telling — one that represents the diverse and changing perspectives on what it means to be environmentally just.
War Peace: The One Drop Rule, a youth driven hip hop theater piece that imagines the Bay Area as a potential war zone in a time of protracted drought. Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, War Peace is collaboratively written and performed by Chinaka Hodge, Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs, and Nico Cary with choreography by Emmy Award [...]
A multimedia excursion across planet hip-hop, the break/s dramatically realizes the living history of the hip-hop generation through the performed personal narrative of poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph. the break/s is a deeply honest investigation into the conflicts between Bamuthi’s public identity as successful spoken word artist, and his private identity as young man coming of age in our globalized, multieverything era. A life-long performer, he leaves it all on stage—simultaneously devouring the space with everything from shamrocks to attitude turns and eloquently spitting rhymes spoken from the heart.
Scourge is a hip hop theater piece which blends the traditions of Afro-Caribbean jazz, spoken word, and contemporary and folkloric movement into a compelling historical narrative tracing the social and diplomatic trajectory of Haiti.
In Spite of Everything features the Bay Area’s most dynamic spoken word trio, the collective known as “The Suicide Kings” (think Culture Clash meets I was Born with Two Tongues in a moshpit) and theatrically documents their unlikely movement away from the precipice of their own lives, to the center of the public school system in Northern California.
Word Becomes Flesh is a fluid evening length choreopoem, the latest in a long tradition of narrative verse plays whose contributors range from Shakespeare to Ntozake Shange. Presented as a series of performed letters to his unborn son, the piece uses poetry, dance, live music and visual art to document nine months of pregnancy from [...]
Cause, features the musical score of Jonathan Norton and a series of Spoken Word pieces originally created by six members of Youth Speaks.
In No Man’s Land, spoken word poet Beau Sia—with collaborators James Kass, Paul Flores, and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, all long-time instructors and mentors for Youth Speaks—explored archetypal, cross-cultural and contemporary concepts of manhood through a spoken word theater piece.
Word Becomes Flesh
Posted on December 16th, 2010
Living Word Festival :: 2010
Posted on August 27th, 2010
The Standard : a monthly music spell…
Posted on April 6th, 2010
Mirrors in Every Corner: Thu, Feb 25 – Sun, Mar 2
Posted on February 20th, 2010
Left Coast Leaning Starts December 3, 2009!
Posted on November 17th, 2009
Living Word Projects – Fall 2009
Posted on October 1st, 2009
break/s beyond the ballot
Posted on March 19th, 2009
Hybrid Festival of New Works
Posted on December 21st, 2008
Copyright © 2008 Living Word Project | the resident theater company of Youth Speaks
290 Division St. Suite 302 :: San Francisco, CA 94103 (Get Directions) :: PH: 415.255.9035 :: F: 415.255.9065 ::
Powered by wordpress and the mighty 