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Hassidic Girl + Latino Boy = Dancing in the Streets?
Riki Colon creates what will be a unique and convivial preview production
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Daring to meander past stereotypes engenders the trail towards understanding a person’s true entity, gleaning a deeper allusion, attempting to further contemplate their quintessence. In Dancing in the Streets, we are introduced to Gio, a young Latino boy, with a mind that has been bewitched by the art of flamboyant performance and drag, which is not the most alluring thing in the Latino community in which his family belongs to. In an effort to protect his son from the potentially hateful and undesirable reaction of his people towards his son’s fascination and new found way of life, Ricardo Alberto Barone moves to the Hassidic side of town on the Lower East Side, and becomes a tenant in Murray Eskowitz’s building. They find themselves in aliens in this new community, but with his son safe, Ricardo could not be happier. However, Gio’s “uncontainable” spirit starts to seep out, and he gradually becomes an interesting specimen to Mr. Eskowitz’s daughter, Shoshana, who herself has a burgeoning seed of performance embedded between the “pillars” which have carefully framed her life for as long as she has known.
The audience will be taken along on Gio and Shoshana’s caravan towards self realization, and on an emotional rollercoaster as single dads’ Murray and Ricardo struggle to fulfill the dearest desire of their hearts — to fiercely protect and graciously raise their children as best they know how. What they must realize is that the soul defines an individual, and it can only be shut out for so long. “The play takes you on a journey through the Hassidic and Latino communities of the lower east side and through the friendship of two brave children navigating family and religious boundaries.” Be sure to catch this preview play, one that will make its mark on the heart and poignantly guide our hearts and minds to strive to receive each individual as a multifaceted package that deserves patient exploration. Part of the HOWL! Festival (HOWL! Arts Project 2011). Catch this preview production this Friday, October 1st at 8pm sharp. See you there!
You can see Dancing in the Streets at Theater 80 (80 Saint Marks Place)
For tickets go here.