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Baraka de Soleil

BARAKA DE SOLEIL

  
Nationality:    USA
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Baraka de Soleil is an interdisciplinary artist currently residing in Brooklyn, NY and is the artistic director of D UNDeRBeLLY, an underground network of independent artists of color. Baraka has been involved in the experimental performance, dance and music scene, nationally and internationally for the past 15 years. He has served as a consultant, teaching artist for Brooklyn academy of Music and other organizations across the country and worked with artists groups including Marlies Yearby Movin' Spirits Dance Theatre, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, David Gordon/Pick-Up Performance Company and the Gabrielle Lansner and Company. Baraka received a 2006 Jerome Travel and study grANT to Ghana, West Africa, where he will immerse himself in the experiences of the Slave Castles and routes. Photo credit - Geoff albpres

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         Childr'N Of "O"         Egress         First Dark Drama         Koool-Aid Luv Odyssey         S'Kin Deep

Childr'N Of "O"

Synopsis:
the iconic image and legacy of Oprah Winfrey serve as the inspiration for the latest performative experiment of Baraka de Soleil/ D UNDeRBeLLY-the dreamlike sci-fi allegory Childr'n of "O". the electronic age transmits its powerful presence through the voice and image of an iconic Black woman figure-'O'. 'O' has the ability to absorb all cultural, social, and economic issues that live inside the 'techno-fabric' of our society while bearing children that will carry forward the legacy of this new millennium's digital consciousness; but what happens when streaming sensory information, organic memories, natural moments of human contact, existence, and interaction overloads the ambient waves of her 'being'? Unfolding through an intricate web of poetic text, deconstructed tv symbolism and gestural language, Childr'n of "O" examines the complexities of our cultural relationships with 'stars', technology. and evolving contemporary society.
- press release

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1st Produced:
Brooklyn Arts exchange, NY (workshop)    2008

Organisations:
BaX/Brooklyn Arts exchange

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Egress

Synopsis:
egress explores the ever-fluid relationship between music and movement. It is created by Baraka de Soleil and D UNDeRBeLLY, an underground network of artists of color invested in interdisciplinary excavation of "new" work that reflect the traditions of the African Diaspora enmeshed in an urban contemporary reality.
- nytheatre.com

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created by Baraka de Soleil & D UNDeRBeLLY, music by Daniel Givens

1st Produced:
Dixon Place, NY    2007

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First Dark Drama

Synopsis:
enmeshed in afro-post-mod movement, stark visuals, and sonic dissonant compositions, First Dark Drama evokes a dystopic urban world where death is ever-present, yet survival is a must. Throughout the intimate and exposed episodic pathways of this 'dark' environment, orbits the ever-fluid relationship between sensory recall, time and history, embodied in refractions of personal memories excavated from the 'black' consciousness. Inspired by composer Daniel Givens' latest album Day Clear/First Dark.
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written by Baraka de Soleil & Daniel Givens

1st Produced:
Parish Hall, St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th Street, NY    2006

Organisations:
Onological Theatre

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Koool-Aid Luv Odyssey

Synopsis:
In Koool-aid Luv Odyssey, RedRed and his Too-Red-Crew go on a psychedelic odyssey through the mystical legacies of the syrupy sweet, fixating world of La Koool-aid. Witness Cherry and Rouge strut their stuff to DJ-Red-d's live mix of hip electronic, reggae and ambient soundscapes, while Video Guru Red-rum, ritualist Red-emption and Motha Supremes Reddya float in and out of this vibrant collage of afros, saturated colors and raucous testifying. along the way, the passionate impresario RedRed bemoans a poetic riff on the woes, throes, highs and lows of this liquidy substance that comes in only one real flavor: ReD.
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1st Produced:
BaX/Brooklyn Arts exchange, NY    2007

Organisations:
D Underbelly

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multimedia performance collage Piece

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S'Kin Deep

Synopsis:
S'kin DeeP is a soulful dance refracting notions of heritage, beauty, tribal energy, and ancestral memories. Baraka de Soleil/D UNDeRBeLLY's newest project summons up indigenous physical and ambient sensations from Africa, Australia, and the Americas
- nytheatre.com

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D UNDeRBeLLY

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Genre:
Dance Drama

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