Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E Chicago Ave
312.280.2660
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Marc Bamuthi Joseph: the break/s. Photo: Bethanie Hines
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Mar 26, 2009 – Mar 28, 2009
Daily (7:30–9:30pm)
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$25
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Multimedia stage piece the break/s plays the globe like a record, with solo creator/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph as the needle. The narrative finds him touching down in cities from Tokyo to Dakar: he fits in, sticks out, meets Prince, dances, and rhymes. He both represents and discovers hip-hop culture everywhere he goes, but wonders at the varying forms it takes. Meanwhile, musical bedrock by DJ Excess and beatboxer Soulati, along with Joseph's near-freakish versatility, sews the vignettes into something much bigger: a take on hip-hop as both a universal language and a mechanism by which culture can be repositioned.
