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 Â 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