Theaterlab & SND Present:
ROUND THE BLOCK! In Harlem
Guides: Claire Lebowitz & Sam Kebede
Featured Artists: Vickie Fremont, Stefanie Nelson Dance Group, Vado Diomande, Tiana Ayala
Community Partners: Broadway Presbyterian Church, Hungarian Pastry Shop, Book Culture and West Harlem Artists Alliance.
Now in its fifth season, Round The Block! Celebrating Arts and Community is leaving its home in the Garment District for the first time, and heading to Harlem! RTB! is a promenade-style performance connecting all the creative people in the neighborhood – businesses, community organizations, garment workers, visual artists, choreographers, and theatermakers. We invite audiences to join us on a guided tour around Harlem to see short pieces of music, theater, dance, and visual art and meet the diverse, thriving businesses and creators who call the neighborhood home. The event is a chance to gather together, get to know each other as neighbors and raise awareness and visibility for the district’s creative entrepreneurs and organizations. The tours, led by our artistic guides – one returning, one new – will depart two times in the evening and last about 45 minutes each, and will conclude at the Broadway Presbyterian Church for additional hands-on activities, art installation, and more.
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For more information about Round The Block! Celebrating Arts and Community, check out the video from RTB! tour from May, 2022 in the Garment District HERE!
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ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
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Theaterlab has served as a hub for experimental performing arts in Midtown since 2013, and created programming for New York’s innovative artists since 2007. Our signature white box studios offer a clean and well-kept creative canvas for new work that subverts expectations and defies categorization. Theaterlab’s new work programming, focused on cross-disciplinary experimentation, includes- Hotel New Work, a short term residency for ensemble-driven works; [im]permanence, connecting the theater to the street through live-action painting; Mothers, Myths, Monsters, presenting short works-in-progress; Voices Inside, a writing and theater program for incarcerated writers; Round the Block!, bringing together performance venues and businesses throughout the Garment District; and Celebrate the Artist, introducing New York audiences to International artists. Among the works presented recently was the play This Beautiful Future which was New York Times’ Critic’s Pics. Theaterlab’s mission is to serve a diverse population of artists and audiences by producing energetic and experimental art in the Garment District that interrogates the nature of live performance. www.theaterlabnyc.com
Founded in 2000 by artistic director Stefanie Nelson, SND is a New York City-based contemporary performance ensemble producing original work in close creative partnership with performers, visual artists, and composers, as well as a public service-driven and education-focused organization, invested in using dance as a tool for healing, community building, and empowerment. SND sustains an artistic vision that underscores creativity and inclusivity as a cultural asset. Â www.sndancegroup.org
This program is supported, in part, by West Harlem Development Corporation as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Theaterlab’s programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Click HERE to see our most recent season of ROUND THE BLOCK!
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COVID-19 policy: In guidance with the city and state COVID-19 policies, we will no longer be requiring masks, but strongly recommend them.Â