Bounce: The Basketball Opera
Ardea Arts and The Greene Space present a workshop performance of a new work by Charles R. Smith, Jr. and Daniel Bernard Roumain
Workshop of Bounce: A Basketball Opera
Overview
BOUNCE brings to life the powerful and inspiring story about the soaring hopes, dreams and aspirations of Isaac “Ike the Flight” Harris, a young basketball player who overcomes temptations and life’s hard lessons. BOUNCE is grounded in contemporary youth issues, including gun violence, and proudly builds on Ardea Arts’ decades-long history of producing innovative and relevant opera-musicals for youth involving them intimately at schools, parks, community centers and theaters.
The event will feature a libretto reading of the opera, musical performances by Daniel Bernard Roumain and David Hughey, and a panel discussion moderated by WQXR’s Terrance McKnight with the creators of BOUNCE, a representative from NYC’s Task Force to Prevent Gun Violence and a representative from the City Parks Foundation. BOUNCE is presented as part of the Composers Now Festival 2015.