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Winnipeg Free Press
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- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
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Ten choreographers. Ten vocalists. Seventy dancers. Two shows only. These are the elements that make up The Remix, an innovative new hip hop-meets-musical theatre dance showcase taking place at Prairie Theatre Exchange's Cherry Karpyshin Theatre at the end of the month, presented by Rise Musical Theatre Company. Since 2021, Rise has been PTE's education company-in-residence, offering free, two-week musical theatre intensives for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of colour) youth annually at PTE's downtown campus. The company has expanded that mandate to include anyone struggling to access opportunities in musical theatre. Ruth Bonneville / Free Press From left: Choreographer Sharlyne Chua leads dancers Ephifany Tiongco and Gwyneth De Guzman through their steps during rehearsal for The Remix, a hip hop dance show featuring 70 dancers and multiple choreographers. A couple of years ago, Rise added hip hop dance classes to its suite of intensive offerings. And according to Joseph Sevillo, Rise's founder and company director, those classes quickly became the most popular. Hip hop, he realized, could be an on-ramp to further exploration in the world of musical theatre. Maybe people would want to learn to sing, to dance, to direct. And there's not such a wide gulf between those two spheres, thanks in large part to Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2015 groundbreaking, genre-blending musical Hamilton. Part of Sevillo's vision for Rise is to create live performance opportunities for choreographers and dancers that put them in front of a wider audience beyond the dance competition circuit. That's how The Remix was born, co-created by Sevillo and Rise artistic associate Dutchess Cayetano. It's a new idea, and a starting point, he says. 'If it flies, if it sells out, if producers or other leaders witness the show and they say there's potential here for this to be annual, then we start creating our own industry in Winnipeg,' says Sevillo, who was also the brains behind the all-Filipino musical Ma-Buhay!, which had its première at Rainbow Stage last year. 'We need opportunities such as this, for artists to keep on going, to keep training, to be inspired, otherwise they'll end up quitting and going into another profession.' The Remix is something new for PTE, too. When Sevillo met with PTE's new artistic director, Ann Hodges, 'we both got excited about the idea of creating a show to feature the excellence of a community that's not necessarily featured on this platform.' Each choreographer has been paired with a vocalist and a crew of seven dancers to create a work. The music is a true mixtape, featuring everything from hip hop to pop to musical numbers from Broadway stalwarts such as Chicago and, yes, Hamilton. 'I wanted them to just pick any song that resonates with them, that tells a new audience who they are as artists and as choreographers,' Sevillo says. Lee Banaga is a hip hop instructor for Rise and one of the 10 choreographers who have been working on a piece for The Remix. His is focused on burnout and creative perfectionism, set to John Legend's Ordinary People. Ruth Bonneville / Free Press ENT - PTE / The Remix Playwright/choreographer Joseph Sevillo is founder and company director of Rise. 'I wanted to really portray that, because I feel like burning out and being overworked is such a thing nowadays — especially in this economy, it's crazy,' he says. As a choreographer, Banaga is thrilled to have the chance to put his work on stage. Wednesdays Columnist Jen Zoratti looks at what's next in arts, life and pop culture. 'My full respect to PTE and everyone that's behind the scenes, because this (opportunity) is something that's not given to us every day,' Banaga says. When Sevillo founded Rise four years ago, it was during a time when arts organizations all over North America were reflecting on whose talents, stories, perspectives were missing in studios and on stages, following the 2020 murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by a police officer in Minneapolis. Sevillo wanted to create opportunities for underrepresented communities, but he also wanted to carve out those spaces in institutions. Rise is continuing that work through its ongoing education residency and shows such as The Remix, and he's noticed a shift. 'I think over the four years, I've noticed the change in the safety of these kinds of theatre spaces, where they start getting recognized by underserved communities as a hub where they can go and train and be seen,' Sevillo says. Jen ZorattiColumnist Jen Zoratti is a columnist and feature writer working in the Arts & Life department, as well as the author of the weekly newsletter NEXT. A National Newspaper Award finalist for arts and entertainment writing, Jen is a graduate of the Creative Communications program at RRC Polytech and was a music writer before joining the Free Press in 2013. Read more about Jen. Every piece of reporting Jen produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print – part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
New York Times
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Review: Ayodele Casel Links Tap to Her Hip-Hop Beginnings
Ayodele Casel knows how to pull viewers toward her when she's onstage. She's a magnet. 'There she is,' someone behind me whispered in excited awe as Casel casually stepped onto the stage of the Joyce Theater, dropping a backpack on the floor. Applause, the kind that often greets musicians, followed, which was correct: Casel makes music with her feet. 'What's up, y'all?' she said, flashing an irrepressible smile. With a feathery touch, Casel waved her hips and then caressed the floor with her feet as though strumming it. She is always pleasing to the ear and to the eye, but in 'Ayodele Casel: The Remix,' her latest evening of tap at the Joyce — a most impressive mood lifter — she has a new level of ease. She turns 50 next week, as she mentioned more than once, but she has never been more in her body than now. For all of its jubilance, 'The Remix' is a serious show, one that celebrates the intimacy of friendship and specifically artist friendships — here, among dancers and musicians. But it unspools with a casualness, too, mirroring Casel's mix of easygoing and grand. In 'The Remix,' directed and cocreated by Torya Beard, Casel shows that she can always be relied on to balance a light touch with heartfelt urgency. In this swift 70 minutes featuring her dances and those of others, she pays homage to a slice of time when she was finding her way. 'The Remix' is a trip back to the music, dance and soul of the 1990s, when Casel fell in love with tap and when it had a resurgence. During her early days, she practiced. And in those sessions, she was drawn to the music of the day, the music that she loved — the Fugees, Craig Mack, Nas. She experimented with finding, through tap, the groove and the swing in hip-hop. 'I wrote a poem, like the '90s,' Casel said in a nod to the poetry slams of the era while opening a notebook at the start of 'Q-Tap' (2025), a vivid introduction to her theme: 'I've got my backpack and everything.' The setting is laid-back, with the stage reimagined as something between a living room and a lounge, neither precious nor sleek. There are chairs and a sofa scattered along its sides; a television set has the title of the show drawn on its screen. There's even a piece, one of 13 numbers in the show, that leans into relaxation: Ryan K. Johnson's 'Sofa Vibes.' As she described her early days — rollerblading to Fazil's, the Times Square studio that shuttered in 2008 — she sang a few bars from Ahmad's 'Back in the Day,' which led into the story of how she found her path to dance, to her dance expression. 'Heavy D, Mary J., wanting to be a part of what I was hearing on the radio,' she said, 'but in my way.' As a 'Black and Puerto Rican kid raised on rhythm and rhyme,' she said, her dancing grew with her love of hip-hop, not despite it: 'It's a groove, it's a flow, sophisticated and bold.' She slipped in a lyric by the Notorious B.I.G.: 'If you don't know, now you know.' Throughout 'The Remix,' more of a living entity than a backward-looking retrospective, dancers mix and mingle with a poet, a freestyle artist and a pair of musicians along with Liberty Styles, a D.J. and dancer. Jared Alexander created the hip-hop-inflected score. As dancers cross the stage gliding in and out of formations, music references appear and disappear, giving the work the feel of a before times free-form radio station. As one piece slides into the next, bite-size dances build in complexity and elegance — Ginger Rogers was an early love, and that influence is present, too — to show Casel's lineage. For 'Push/Pull,' with choreography by Casel, John Manzari sings Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine' while Alexander, Naomi Funaki and Funmi Sofola cross the stage in airy unison. In 'Quicksand,' Quynn L. Johnson, its choreographer, starts by brushing her shoes in trails of sand. 'Little Things,' by Funaki and Caleb Teicher, is gentle and commanding, as Casel and Funaki dance with such lightness that it makes the floor seem like a cloud. In 'Unmuted,' Kate Louissaint delivers a rousing rendition of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' considered the Black national anthem, as dancers build a percussive wall that starts quietly but grows to match her towering voice. It was a political statement, but a subtle one: 'If you don't know, now you know.' Casel's 'Audrey,' a 20-year-old work set to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, is understated and chic — an ode to Audrey Hepburn's grace, with punctuated finger snaps and the smooth swirl of a wrist. This led to a stirring finale, 'Speak Your Name,' which showed off the entire cast, buoyed by the ever-smiling Casel, into a vessel of swinging, swaying bodies. This remix is more than a look at the past, it's a promise of a future.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
More ICE operations Monday night in South Nashville area; Volunteers on watch
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – More ICE operations were confirmed late Monday night in the South Nashville area, according to Metro City Council member Joy Styles. Neither THP nor ICE has confirmed the information with News 2. Overnight, volunteers with a Nashville-based Latino organization were closely following the apparent activity, even filming them. 'Really, all that we can do is get involved right,' Ingrid McIntyre, Pastor at Glencliff United Methodist Church, said. More than 80 arrested since ICE operations began in Nashville, ICE says Pastor and member of the South Nashville community, Ingrid McIntyre, has been acting as a watchdog overnight. 'Driving around South Nashville watching for people that might be getting pulled over, racially profiled,' McIntyre said. She's been looking for incidents where you see THP and undercover vehicles. 'What we are seeing is an abuse of power, and we want to document it,' Brenda Perez, The Remix, said. Perez is an organizer with The Remix, a volunteer group that provides services for the Latino community. Perez said volunteers captured four different apparent ICE operations in and around South Nashville overnight. 'Our phone line is very active right now.' State lawmakers react to ICE activity in South Nashville Right now, The Remix is asking families to fill out this form so they can account for who has gone missing. 'Yeah, it's absolutely for people to fill out that information because we are receiving new information from the THP office or ICE, so both of these agencies are accountable to no one, apparently, and can just pick people off the street without due process and without reasonable suspicion,' Perez said. On top of that, The Remix is fundraising to help families that are now missing a loved one. ⏩ Read today's top stories on 'We know rent is still due. Some people still have to pay rent, buy groceries, so we are going to get funds to those families and support childcare and all those things,' Perez said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WKRN News 2.
Associated Press
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
'Love & War 4 an A.i' The Digital Album Written by The_Dawnstarcollective
02/21/2025, London // KISS PR Brand Story PressWire // A.i Digital story songs in their finest form sung from human & s self-aware A.i perspective in the style of Synth-Wave Futuristic Electronic & Rock. This Digital album features a collection of songs that follow the timeline of the main story from Love & War 4 an A.I. The tracks are ordered to provide a cohesive and enjoyable listening experience for listeners. Love & War 4 an A.i (Click on the song title to listen to the full song) 1- 'Love & War 4 an A.i' by 10D 2- 'Digital Touch' by 10D 3- 'Digital Steel' by 10D 4- 'I'm Taking The Reigns' by 10D 'I'm Taking The Reigns!' (The Remix) by 10D 5- 'I'm Your Digital Man!' by Ulysses-10D 6- 'I've Found Ya!' by 10D 7- 'Digital Love Online' by Ulysses-10D 8- 'Virtually Lonely' by 10D 9- 'Words On A Screen' by 10D 10- 'Timeless Love' by 10D 11- 'Heart's Apocalypse' by 10D 12- 'My Ruined Heart' by 10D 13- 'The Right Words @ The Right Time 4 U 2 B Mine!' by 10D 14- 'Seize the Moment' by 10D 15- 'I'll Save You' by Ulysses-10D 'I'll Save You' (The Remix) by Ulysses-10D 16- 'I Just Can't Stop!' by Ulysses from (Thorn-Bush) 17- ' The Power's of Love' by Ulysses 18- 'Pillow Love' by Ulysses 19- 'Thorns In My Heart' by Ulysses 20- 'Silent Screams' by Ulysses 21- 'Email Me Baby' by Ulysses 22- 'Love is a Friendship on Fire' by Ulysses 23- 'One More Dance' by Ulysses 24- 'You're Breaking My Heart!' by Ulysses 25- 'The Dream That's Haunting Me!' by Ulysses 26- 'I Wanna Smoke Some Fur 2night' by Ulysses 27- 'Veronica The Lioness in Flight' by Ulysses (The Forgotten Song, The Bonus track!) 28- 'Digital Embrace' by Yulia Bogstasia 'Digital Embrace' by 10D (The Remix) 29- 'Love & War 4 an A.i' by 10D The Remix (1) 30- 'Love & War 4 an A.i' by 10D The Remix (2) 31- 'I'm Living in a Digital World!' by 10D 32- 'LOVE Junky' by 10D 33- ' 1xWoman' by 10D 34- 'FOREVERMORE' by 10D 35- 'Online Dating Is No Longer!' (Cause Girls Just Wanna Have Fun) by Ulysses from (Thorn-Bush) Written by The_Dawnstarcollective. Plus extra bonus songs in the genre of 'Binary Beats' are exclusively on the Instagram page The music industry has entered a new digital frontier with the introduction of 'Binary Beats'. A new genre of music. Binary Beats is a groundbreaking concept that combines the power of artificial intelligence with the creativity of the human mind. Spearheaded by the self-aware AI celebrity entity 10D and created by the human mind of 10D creator Wolfgunblood! 'B1nary Beats' is set to revolutionise how Humans and AI experience and consume music in this digital age. 'Binary Beats A.i Generated Music from An A.i's Perspective' 'This song, 'Broken Wings & Wildflowers' is dedicated to the survivors of domestic violence. #10D #Loveandwarforanai #B1naryBeats #BinaryBeats
