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• Playwrights of today’s Hip-Hop generation should have an artistic home. • American Theater should reflect the diversity of the American people. • Theater should be affordable and accessible to everyone. For nearly a decade, Hip-Hop Theater Festival has showcased the stories, people, music, dance, and word of Hip-Hop live and on stage. All around the world HHTF is known as one of the most influential outlets showcasing Hip-Hop performing arts. Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning, or you’re a new friend, we welcome you to the HHTF Family.
What’s happening
at HHTF ? The Festivals.
In each of our Festival cities, HHTF presents artists who stretch and reinvent art forms in the name of Hip-Hop. HHTF’s landmark festivals include fully-produced theater work, staged readings, visual arts exhibits, educational panels, dance showcases, workshops, open rehearsals, theater shorts, and more.
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HHTF On Tour brings HipHop theater artists to stages and universities all over the planet. Also developing educational curricula around the work, HHTF on Tour strives toward the recognition of Hip-Hop theater as a bona fide art form.
Hip-Hop Arts-in-Education
HHTF recognizes Hip-Hop as a valuable educational tool and has built a year-round education program that serves New York City public schools and universities across the country. HHTF strives to listen to and include young people in its programmatic decisions both educationally and artistically.
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HHTF on Tour is represented by Lisa Booth & Deirdre Valente Lisa Booth Management, Inc. 145 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036 T. 212.921.2114 | artslbmi@msn.com
What is Hop Theater? HipHip-Hop theater is live, professionally executed theater written by and about the Hip-Hop generation. Often using the elements of Hip-Hop culture (including MCing, DJing, Hip-Hop dance, graffiti and Spoken Word), Hip-Hop theater tells urgent stories seldom represented on stage, and through language that embraces HipHop’s multi-literate and poly-lingual vitality. Always imbued with an undercurrent of activism, Hip-Hop theater ignites dialogue and social change through exciting, provocative and celebratory performance.
Critical Breaks ent & Residency Program Developm
Each year, HHTF gives select artists the time and space to further strengthen their work through staged readings, open rehearsals and residencies. Understanding the importance of process, Critical Breaks assists playwrights, artists and ensemble companies in bringing their work to its fullest potential.
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The Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant (FAAR) Program is a national initiative to support individual artists and work that is emerging from the field of Hip-Hop arts / Future Aesthetics. In 2008, FAAR awarded 20 recipients with cash grants to encourage and applaud artists for reshaping the artistic landscape. FAAR is funded by the Ford Foundation.
Hip-Hop Theater Festival is made possible through generous support from Rockefeller Bros. Foundation, AT&T Foundation, The Union Square Arts Awards, The Ford Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Time Warner, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Curtis McGraw Foundation, The New World Foundation and individual supporters like you. HHTF is a participant in the New Generations Program, funded by Doris Duke Charitable Trust/ The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for American Theatre. HHTF is also supported in part by Artography: Arts in a Changing America, a grant program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation.
OUR Mission:
To support Hip-Hop as a vibrant arts and culture movement.
OUR Vision:
To tell the untold stories of the Hip-Hop generation.