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I Still Love H.E.R. (atributetohiphop)
Phone: 312-733-6000
Price: $12
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There are no shallows in this unguided tour of hip-hop music and dance. It's all deep water, and in my ignorance I mostly sank. Still, I had a good time drowning thanks to the balls-out dancing. Writer-director-star Wendell Tucker seems to genuinely love hip-hop while questioning its influence on African-American life--family, community, religion, male-female relations. As a disillusioned host doing his last hip-hop TV show, he talks things over with his bratty cohost (Krysten Williams), a DJ (head choreographer Jeremy Noah), and hip-hop personified (Lisa Cooper). The conversation is mostly directed at cognoscenti, and the show is unpolished and too long, but I didn't care. --Laura Molzahn
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West Town Studio, Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
- River West 777 N. Green St.
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312-733-6000
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WOW! I was engaged the entire Time. My expectations were non-existent going to the show but I've come away wanting to go back and see it again. The dances were lively, creative and very entertaining. The songs brought me back time and again to make the connection between R&B, Pop and Hip-Hop...and surprisingly, Capoeira? Maybe it is just the African cultural heritage manifesting itself and influencing the Western Hemisphere? It should not be long before this show makes it to Broadway.
Posted by Hyarima
on May 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM
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