Take back the hip-hop.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Fest Forward: Hip-Hop Unbound)(Brief article)
American Theatre, April, 2006
NEW YORK CITY: Fighting the nasty cultural shift--the morphing of hip-hop from a musical forum into a misogynistic rant--isn't exactly foremost on the minds of the organizers of Fest Forward: Hip-Hop Unbound. But the girl power ferociously on display during this ambitious festival, running April 3-15 at the Skirball Center at New York University, should be enough to rip apart images of negative, disrespectful hip-hop.
Full Circle Productions's Ana "Rokafella" Garcia and the young American, Colombian and Japanese women of Decadancetheatre lead the way, while a batch of ...
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