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"Open the Window" |
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...a live performance at the Lyric Theatre |
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Open the Window brought rap, soul, dance, theater, spoken word, jazz, and blues to the historic Lyric Theater in downtown Blacksburg. Artists from Georgia, Mississippi, and Virginia join to celebrate diversity and community in an eclectic venue. |
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Featured acts included: |
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M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction): | |
| Brothers Carlton and Maurice Turner are musicians, singers, rappers, songwriters, producers, engineers, poet and teachers. M.U.G.A.B.E.E. does it all, and does it very well. Their venues include hip hop, jazz, spoken word, rhythm and blues, rap, soul, reggae, and classical. The Turners deliver explosive performances, with well-layered and constructed grooves, and thought provoking lyrics. | ||
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Elise Witt: | |
| Elise Witt has sung everywhere from New York 's Carnegie Hall to festivals in Nicaragua, South Africa, and the US. Her music is as colorful as her background. The Raleigh NC Times says, "Her performance is like a suitcase plastered with stickers from around the world… populated with interesting characters both heroic and comic.” Witt sings in 12 languages including songs in Kiswahili, Japanese, Danish, Hebrew, English, and Sign Language. | ||
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Ann Kilkelly and Footnotes : | |
| Ann Kilkelly is a jazz-tap dancer, writer, director, choreographer, and award-winning professor of theater arts and women's studies at Virginia Tech. She directs Footnotes, a jazz-tap company of Virginia Tech students, faculty, and community members. Jazz-Tap is one of very few dance forms to originate in the United States. Its roots are in African Vernacular dances and polyrhythms and Celtic and English foot patterns and body positions, with influences from Native American and South American cultures. | ||
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Hush Harbor : | |
| Hush Harbor is an Occasional Choir directed by Carolyn Dixon. Community members are welcome to join workshops and then perform with the group during the “Open the Windows” performance. Witt will conduct a singing workshop free and open to the public on Tuesday, January 31, at 7:30 in PAB 104. | ||
| During the week, artists will be in residence in classes and performances in the New River Valley and in Roanoke. Sponsors include: The Office of Multicultural Affairs, AdvanceVT, the Theatre Arts Department, and Alternate R.O.O.T.S with support from The Virginia Tech Women's Center, Multicultural Programs, Gilbert Linkous School, and the Crossing Borders program in Roanoke. | ||
| For more information contact: | ||
Jane Ann Williams |
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