Here’s to a Fresh Start
Happy New Year! For the first blog of the new year, I thought I would talk about resolutions.
Resolutions are those things that you need to do to accomplish your goal(s). As a hip hop theater collective, our goal is to create and produce work that represents and celebrates the hip hop aesthetic.
In order to do this we need to do three things.
- First we need to create a legal structure. This we have done.
- Second we need to make potential collective members and potential audience members aware of our existence. This was our focus last year. We have a web site with a blog that is published once a week. We have Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts that are updated on a daily basis.
- And third, we need to do the work, and create the product.
So for this year, our main resolution for Rhymes Over Beats is to generate more product.
We Need New Stories
In addition to the things we have done (and will continue to do), like looking for plays with a production history that fits our mission to co-produce, growing our Resident Artist Program (RAP), and working with existing members to develop work, this year we are introducing a new program.
Similar to how A Chorus Line was created, we are instituting a new way of creating an ensemble hip hop play/musical called the ACE program. The ACE program – or Artists’ Collaborative Ensemble – will be an ensemble of collective members working together to tell stories using a hip hop aesthetic. Email me if you’re interested in joining this select group for 2020.
But the truth is, we can’t do any of these projects, new or old, without you. Write more plays. Send them to us.
Follow us on social media. Comment on the blog. Buy tickets. And donate.
Join us in making hip hop theater the dominate form of theater.
We resolve this year will be our best year ever.