Carl Hancock Rux performs Poesia Negra

Wednesday, February 23, 7:30pm.
Granoff Creative Arts Center
Angell St. (btwn Brown and Thayer)

Channeling the work of Luis Pales Matos, Nicoles Guillen, and the literary tradition that created a synthesis between personal memory, dreams, political struggles and music, Poesia Negra is an intimate performance work (two people) that blends storytelling, poetic reveries, and a trenchant critical analysis on American mythologies and controversies new and old. Rux’s stripped-down staging sets up a psychological lec/dem oratory and gives spirited disquisitions on an eclectic lineup of cultural game-changers from James Baldwin, Archie Shepp and Billie Holiday, Breyten Breytenbach, Albert Einstein, and filmmakers Shirley Clarke and Pier Paolo Pasolini, in order to investigate post post modernism. race and personal identity.