Ardea Arts will be partnering with The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC & WQXR to presents a workshop performance of BOUNCE: The Basketball Opera. BOUNCE is unique show that provides a mix of live music, theatre and basketball.
BOUNCE is a fictional story that is hoping to bring contemporary youth issues to light, such as gun violence. The play focuses on Isaac “Ike the Flight” Harris, a young basketball player who overcomes temptations and life’s hard lessons. The script was written by award-winning American author, Charles R. Smith, Jr. set to music by American composer, Daniel Bernard Roumain.
The event will feature a libretto reading of the opera, musical performances by Daniel Bernard Roumain and Bass Baritone Donovan Singletary, and a panel discussion with the creators of BOUNCE, a representative from NYC's Task Force to Prevent Gun Violence and a representative from the NYC Parks Foundation. The BOUNCE project will also extend its reach to include presentations in rural Alaskan communities, where basketball is a favorite sport among Alaska Native youth.
All of this is falls in line with the goals of Ardea Arts, which hopes to bring together communities by involving youth in relevant opera-musicals. The group commissions and develops new works that engage and inspire diverse audiences of all ages and all walks of life. Recently, they showed a production of space opera, “The Three Astronauts,” at Laguardia Arts High School.
BOUNCE: The Basketball Opera will be shown at The Greene Space in New York on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. For more information or to purchase tickets to this event, click here.
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