New performance added! Join our education department for a special abridged presentation of Sneaker Suites Wednesday April 20th at 12:00pm. This performance will be general admission, all tickets just $21.
The 7:30 pm performance of Sneaker Suites is sold out. Thank you for your support.
Los Angeles-based hip-hop dance troupe, Antics, brings the East Coast Premiere of Sneaker Suites to PIFA 2016. The dance theater work is a collaboration between Antics and poet/activist Mark Gonzales in which a collection of pieces ignite a conversation about the material culture of today. Through a multi-layered performance encompassing dance, poetry, voiceover, and theater, audiences will discover the iconic importance of sneakers in hip hop culture and examine their spiritual necessity as a trade tool of street dancers.
The pieces within Sneaker Suites will draw connections between the empowering personal meaning of sneakers to hip hop dancers and the social issues that arise from an obsession with luxury fashion, and the global human rights implications of sneaker consumption. The work takes form in a multi-layered performance where hip hop dance forms (popping, b-boying/b-girling, house dance, cramping, etc) intersect with the text of provocative poetry by Mr. Gonzales. The work challenges audiences to question assumptions about hip-hop, materialism, and multiple facets of our culture.
This will be the East Coast Premiere of Sneaker Suites.
The April 20, 12pm performance is a student matinee.
Interested teachers and school groups can request tickets here.
Sneaker Suites is generously supported by Glaxo.
Groups of 10+ SAVE!
Call 215-790-5883 or click here to submit a group ticket request.