hip-hop boot camp
The first OSF hip-hop boot camp was held in October 2007. The four-day intensive workshop provided an opportunity for expert practitioners to explore the intersection of nexthetics and classical theatre. Guest artists and actors worked together with Shakespearean sonnets and text from Love’s Labor’s Lost, workshopped excerpts of original adaptations and plays from guest artists and other nexthetic playwrights, and held round table discussions on hip-hop education and the classics, developmental models, and creating a common language.
The goals and values of this exploration are:
- to honor OSF as a language-based theatre
- to create relationships between nexthetics cultural producers (writers, performers, choreographers, directors, producers, etc.) OSF’s cultural producers (performers, education staff, artistic staff, and board members) and the local community
- to incubate material for future production
- to develop language and concepts specifically around the conjunction of classical work and nexthetics work, while sharing knowledge and skills in a reciprocal exchange between all participants
It is, to our knowledge, the first events of their kind.
Among the guest artists participating in the First Hip-Hop Boot Camp were Morganics, Al Letson, Baba Israel, Nicole Klaymoon, Steven Sapp, Rickerby Hinds, Kamilah Forbes, and Joe Hernandez-Kolski.
The OSF artists who participated included Claudia Alick, Scott Kaiser, John Tufts, Terri McMahon, Tyrone Wilson, Sarah Rutan, Danforth Comins, René Millán and Kevin Kenerly.
View a slide show of the 2007 participants' discussions, workshops and presentations for both the company and public. The music was created by the participants.