Thursday, January 14, 2010
Hip-Hop dance ensemble Rennie Harris Puremovement will present two February performances at Montgomery County Community College’s Science Center Theater, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell. For information and tickets, visit
www.mc3.edu/livelyarts or call 215-641-6518.
On Friday, Feb. 5 at 10:30 a.m., the ensemble will present a children’s performance, titled “The History of Hip-Hop.” The show offers a lecture/demonstration of movement, rhythm, sound and image, and it features a cast of dancers, live percussion, riveting vocals and video-collage projections. The performance will illustrate how hip-hop has roots in African culture, as well as in Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican cultures from the early 1960s until today. General admission tickets for the children’s performance cost $5.
On Saturday, Feb. 6, Rennie Harris Puremovement returns to the theater for a mainstage performance at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25 for general admission, $20 for students and seniors and $10 for children.
The performances are made possible by support from the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Rennie Harris Puremovement brings social dances to the concert stage and celebrates the universality of hip-hop by seeking inspiration from other forms of performance art. Described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “Philadelphia’s greatest cultural export,” the ensemble’s Repertory Program showcases a collection of work from the past 15 years.
For more information on Rennie Harris Puremovement, visit
www.rhpm.org.
