JUNE 16 – 17, 2006
Friday and Saturday @ 8 PM
Featuring Robert Karimi, DJ D Double and DJ Franco de Leon
This production is part of TeatroFest 2006, a city-wide festival celebrating the Latino voice in American theatre.*
With the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the birth of 80s conservatism, and bay area suburban teenage angst as his backdrop, critically acclaimed performance artist Robert Karimi (Def Poetry Jam) tells a remixed autobiographical tale of an Iranian/Guatemalan boy struggling to learn about manhood, nationhood, and neighborhood with the characters and music of his environment helping him along. DJs D Double and Franco de Leon scratch, blend and spin a masterful soundscape of modern music, 80s hip hop, 70s disco, house music, and punk rock. Karimi, D Double and de Leon take us on a journey through disco-filled Mexican restaurants to mixed culture moshpits to breakdancing circles, traversing time through sound. Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang.
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Its really nice to when we have guest artists come to Jump-Start, its just a new vibe that enters the theater. I especially loved being able to hang out with all the crew and I think some overloaded on mojitos at Rosario’s and Azuca thru-out the week.Everyone was soo extremely cool and great to talk too. I think I enjoyed the part on Sat night when we were all hanging out at Bar America and Robert Karimi had to write on bar napkins to save his voice. Franco passing along some great CDs , D Double and his Polo (bear) shirts, sporting a new one almost every day and just the over-all energy and life and humor the entire show encompassed.
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