Theater Jones
Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission
Teatro Dallas closes its 14th International Theater Festival this weekend with Puerto Rico native Teo Castellanos, who runs his own dance/theater company in Miami, D-Projects. His company is influenced by world cultures and rituals, and specializes in hip-hop theater and beat-boy (break) dancing. He describes his company as "hip-hop ritual."
But he won't be breaking at his appearance here. He's performing his solo show N.E. 2nd Avenue, in which he plays a variety of types from the Miami streets, including Cuban, Haitian, Jamaican, Jewish, African-American and gay characters. They're all connected via a white tourist. The show is performed in English, at the Latino Cultural Center, and is co-presented with the South Dallas Cultural Center.
TheaterJones caught up with him for this video interview, in which he discusses his work, the characters he created and working with kids at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing And Visual Arts, as well as a detention center, while he's been in Dallas. He also discusses how, even though this play is eight years old, his Haitian character couldn't ignore the recent earthquake that devestated that Caribbean country.
He also gives us a sample from the monologue of the Cuban character.
Cover photo by Robert Hart.
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