Arts - Artes

GALA Hispanic Theatre

Candombe! Tango Negro
Junio 3 - Junio 27, 2004
Concebida y dirigida por Hugo Medrano
En el Warehouse Theatre

Las raíces africanas del Tango: el candombe, la habanera y la milonga. Un musical que pone al descubierto los orígenes oscuros del Tango. Los personajes, la música y la danza, que, a través de cien años, sigue llegando al corazón del pueblo.

*En colaboración con WPAS.
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GALA Hispanic Theatre
Presents
Paso Nuevo (GALA’s Youth Link) 

in

Blood Wedding

(Bodas de sangre)

by Federico García Lorca

bilingual adaptation by Cornelia F. Cody

directed by Oscar Ceville

Paso Nuevo, GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Youth Link, is proud to present its bilingual production of the classic, Blood Wedding (Bodas de sangre) by Spanish sage, Federico García Lorca on May 15 at 6:30pm at the Josephine Butler Parks Center, located at 2437 15th Street, NW.

This specially adapted version will be performed by members of Paso Nuevo, GALA’s after-school, theater arts program for neighborhood youth, ages 13 to 16. Free and open to the public, it is the culmination of a semester’s worth of work by high school students, who attend local DC Public Schools such as Banneker and Bell Multicultural during the day. Fifteen to twenty students will play multiple roles throughout the play, some combining to share characters.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

While most students are new to the program, many are alumni from last year’s program who developed a love for the theater. Others are novices who are adapting well to the program’s goals, which include learning to make decisions and to improve their communications skills, onstage as well as off. Paso Nuevo is also designed to provide a venue in which to explore more family-related issues, such as parent/child relationships, as well as peer relationships, conflict resolution, and teamwork. More specifically, Paso Nuevo presents a forum in which inner-city kids can improve their language skills, both in Spanish and English through exercises such as improvisation and script reading, and explore potential careers in the arts and related fields.

The Josephine Butler Parks Center is located at 2437 15th Street, NW (between Chapin and Euclid Streets, NW). The closest Metro station is Columbia Heights (green and yellow lines).

FOR INFORMATION CALL 202-234-7174
or visit us at www.galatheatre.org
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This project is made possible with generous support from the Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs, the Gilbert and Jaylee Mead Family Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank Solidarity Fund, the Weisberg Foundation, and Washington Parks and People.

AmericanAirlines® is the official carrier for GALA Hispanic Theatre