7/29/13

Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts /August 3rd /Artist Village Detroit - August 3rd 2013

Festival of Performing Arts /August 3rd /Artist Village Detroit

Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts announces wide variety of acts.

On August 3, 2013, Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts, an outdoor celebration of site-specific performance and installation art, will fill the courtyards, sidewalks, storefronts and gardens in and around Artist Village Detroit (17340 Lahser, Detroit, MI 48219) with engaging site-specific work from 3:00-9:00 p.m. Sidewalk celebrates the architecture, culture and artistry of Detroit places through site-specific performance and installation.

Sidewalk's mission is to promote visual and performing arts in Detroit by transforming public, unique and under-used property into non-traditional performance venues. Sidewalk stimulates pedestrian traffic and engagement in unique Metro-Detroit places by repurposing space for live visual and performing arts. Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts is an annual event that promotes place-making and creative use of space in Detroit.

Detroit is internationally renowned for its unique architecture and rich artist heritage. Sidewalk will present the work of a diverse collection of dance companies, theater troupes, musicians, and visual artists who are making non-traditional and avant-garde work specifically informed by the landscape and culture of the city.

Highlights include Kresge Award winners Hardcore Detroit and Passalaqua celebrating hip hop; Parangoles Playhouse, a tribute to Brazilian and urban wearable art installed in the "Art Alley's movement and poetry collaboration between poetess Jessica Care Moore and modern dance company Jungle Statement; pop-up Shakespeare performances from Magenta Giraffe Theater Company; and experimental jazz by Sean Blackmen's Sin Hielo.

The full schedule is as follows:

TEMPLE OF DREAMS

3:00 DETROIT THEATER COMPANY

3:30 DETROIT SLAM TEAM

4:00 SKY COVINGTON

5:00 DAWN XIANA MOON + LEE NA MO

5:30 TUNDE OLANIRAN

6:30 COLD MEN YOUNG

7:30 SIN  HIELO

8:15 PASSALACQUA

 

BLUE DANCE COURTYARD  

3:00 KRISTI FAULKNER DANCE

4:00 HERITAGE WORKS

4:30 JUNGLE STATEMENT w/ SKY COVINGTON

5:00 JAMES CORNISH FREE ARTS TRIO

5:30 MS. CHANTAL

6:00 BIG RED WALL

7:00 thingNY

8:00 LISA LAMARRE + JAMES CORNISH

8:45 ART LAB J

 

ART ALLEY

3:00 FLINT DANCE COLLABORATIVE

3:30 MAYA + QUAINT STOVALL

4:00 ALEXA DEXA + KEVIN MCCOY

5:00 I STAY

6:00 HOMELESS HERO

7:00 HARDCORE DETROIT

7:30 JESSICA CARE MOORE

8:00 HARDCORE DETROIT

 

EXPERIMENTAL GARDEN

3:00 A HOST OF PEOPLE

4:00 DETROIT THEATER COMPANY

4:30 A HOST OF PEOPLE

5:00 A HOST OF PEOPLE

6:30 RADICAL CHILD

 

PETITE COURTYARD

4:00 â€" 8:00 UPENDED TEACUPS

PARANGOLES PLAYHOUSE (through the petite courtyard)

3:00 PARANGOLES PLAYHOUSE WORKSHOP

6:00 CONTACT IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP

6:30 PARANGOLES PLAYHOUSE WORKSHOP

6:30 RADICAL CHILD

 

ARTIST VILLAGE THEATER

4:00 REMOTE CONTROL TOMATO