Hip - Hop Theatre
Hip-Hop Theatre:
Rhythm that Tells Stories
Hip – Hop Theatre: It is the median of ultra-creative collaborators, the MC’s playing characters and actors becoming MC’s. These are original stories and reinterpreted myths. Each live play is devoted to using rhythm in body percussion, dance and in dialogue to tell the story. Scripts are created through the first two weeks of the developmental process. I can take any group of dedicated performers through the journey of creating a production from seed to fruition.
Live Performances
Jaguar Priests : Performed at Washongton DC's Hip-Hop Theatre Festival
Hip-Hopalypse : Original Production in Honolulu at onG kING Arts Center
Combines lyrical verse, martial arts and human drama. The backdrop is a post-apocalyptic future where a handful of lost souls struggle for some semblance of normalcy. Some are making a stand. Gathering in The New Project of Oneness. This new village is recruited by MCs, guarded by warriors, and governed by difficult men. A new kind of life is forming in the sands, the Seekers. A collective consciousness threatening to end human individuality, but it promising everlasting health. The quest blasts through poetic rhymes, dance, martial arts battles and phat beats.
Chase : Sold out all shows in Honolulu's Kennedy Theatre and Studio 1 in Chinatown
A hip-hop theatre production, featuring MCs battles, original Slam poetry from Kealoha, martial combat, theatre of the absurd and step dancing. Our hero, Chase is born in an age of conformity, an absurd world of people moving and looking like robots. He breaks free with the aid of his sister Derrius. She has an elixir she plans to use to free minds but, it comes with the price of addiction. A Shaman and his student try to introduce a new alternative. The conformist army wants Chase dead, while Derrius wants him on her side, or out of the picture.
“The poetry throughout the play is artfully intertwined with the dialogue and the action, with battles full of flips and kicks. The play contains classic themes: find your true self, love and peace, not hate and violence. See and the entire ensemble express these themes in such an innovative way.” Sabrina Favors, Ka Leo
This production was the first collaboration between See and Hawaii’s Poet Laureate, Kealoha Wong.