just the one girl... and a crew of up-and-coming poets, playwrights, directors, photographers, videographers and dancers backing her up
Etkilendikleri
sandra bernhard, john waters, eve ensler, whoopi goldberg, toni morrison, meredith monk, gwendolyn brooks, robert hayden, bill t. jones, sonia sanchez, louise bourgeois, amy sedaris, audrey hepburn...
umbrellas of cherbourg, ma vie en rose, wings of desire, black orpheus
Neye Benziyor?
the literary lovechild of sandra bernhard and toni morrison with a dash of laugh-in era goldie hawn...
Hey good people-- I've moved to Facebook for listing upcoming shows and messages. Think of this more as an archive of audio work. ~HB
Writer and multidisciplinary performer Holly Bass has presented her work at respected regional theaters and performance spaces such as Arena Stage (DC), Woolly Mammoth Theater (DC), the Athenaeum Theatre (Chicago), the Kennedy Center (DC), the Whitney Museum (NY) and the Experience Music Project (Seattle). Her poems have appeared in Callaloo, nocturnes (re)view, Cave Canem X and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press). Jesse Jackson commissioned her to write a tribute poem for Maya Angelou, which she performed alongside the esteemed poet in Atlanta. As a freelance journalist (Washington Post, New York Newsday), she was the first writer to put the term "hip hop theater" into print in a 1999 article for American Theatre Magazine. Her essay on women in hip hop theater appears in the contemporary feminist anthology The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (Anchor Books, 2004). She studied modern dance (under Viola Farber) and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College before earning a Master's in Journalism from Columbia University.
ARC AND HUE will be available at the NYC book party on Sunday, Sept.
20, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY
10012. Between Houston & Bleecker, near the F & 6 trains.
Hey Holly. I like the new tracks you put up. Fond memories of having our palms read at tea-time in DC. Bonne Continuation for you and your art. xoxx Laura
"Women, Sex, and Desire" Workshop with Gesel Mason
Saturday, October 18 at Joe's Movement Emporium 3309 Bunker Hill Road Mount Rainier, MD 20712 301-699-1819
Free discussion from 3-4:30 Movement workshop (women only) from 5-7pm $35
Be a part of the creative process for Gesel Mason's new project in this one-day workshop with Gesel Mason at Joe's Movement Emporium. We'll start with a discussion of issues surrounding sexuality and desire (in its many forms), and then find ways to embody and explore these ideas through movement, writing and improvisation.
The discussion is FREE and open to the public and the workshop is for female movers advanced-beginning and up, and ages 18 and up. Come if you're curious, nervous, confident, shy, vocal, sexually active, celibate, judgmental, open-minded, modest, ostentatious, fearless, scared, young, old, opinionated, indifferent....you get the idea. Whatever your perspective--come to share, learn and be challenged.
Women, Sex, and Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho, Sometimes You Don't is a multi-media investigation on how women navigate sex, desire, choice, and perception. The project is meant to challenge our cultural programming, examine our belief systems, and reflect the struggle, humor, and pleasure we encounter as sexual beings, in an effort to empower ourselves and inform our sexual choices, whatever they may be.
Gesel Mason Performance Projects is looking for dancers to be a part of the development of a new project, "Women, Sex, and Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho, Sometimes You Don't"
Dancers must be available for rehearsals on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, and Sunday afternoons. Rehearsals will begin in October in preparation for performanc
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