Boom Bap Tourism
Concept, Choreography, Performance Makoto Hirano
Director: Sarah Sanford Sound Designer: Mikaal Sulaiman co-Sound Designer: Jorge Cousineau Scenic Designer: Jebney Lewis Lighting Designer: Paul Moffitt Dramaturg: Andrew Simonet Production Stage Manager: Sarah Chandler ASM: Kristin Bailey
Production history
• National Initiative for Arts & Health in the Military/R&R Festival in Tampa — 2017
• 4th Wall Arts/First Person Arts Festival (excerpts) — 2014
• Lucky Penny/DanceTruck ATL (excerpts) — 2014
• Painted Bride Arts Center (Premiere) — 2011
• Asian Arts Initiative (“the lost tapes” iteration) — 2010
• Kelly-Strayhorn Theater (excerpts) — 2009
• New Orlean Fringe Festival (first draft) — 2008
Full-length “afictional” solo piece. Kinetic storytelling. Performance poetry in a bboy stance. A letter to my past self... a reckoning of the present self. A full collaboration with my dear friend (and now a Tony-Award winning one!) Mikaal Sulaiman. I was awarded a Rocky Award (Philly dance award) for this one (shout out to Karl Schappell). The entire project was born from my work with my mentor, luminary dance maker and Philly-legend Hellmut Gottschild.
Funding: Independence Foundation, Dance Advance, Philly Live Arts LAB Program, and all the brilliant crowdfund supporters.
Photos by Bill Hebert