Chew On this
Food Drive at Dance Place: April 12-18
The performances mark the final days of a week-long food drive at Dance Place to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank, also located in Dance Place's neighborhood of Northeast, DC. Audience members are encouraged to bring packaged nonperishable food donations with them to the theater.
As First Lady Michelle Obama enlists the nation's children to get moving and eat nutritiously, it's also a call to adults to face our own understanding of food and nutrition. Chew on This, performed by Deborah Riley Dance Projects, is a commentary on world hunger, the food industry, nutrition and "eatertainment."
Through dance, spoken word and a surprising use of Dance Place's studio theater, Deborah Riley premieres this new work with appeal to anyone that enjoys food. Deborah Riley Dance Projects is joined by fourteen members of the Dance Place Repertory and Performance class as they turn the theater topsy turvy. From a grassy hill to choir risers, corn fields to Afghanistan, the performance space is re-imagined. Peter DiMuro, Executive Director of Dance Metro DC, will join the performers in his role of MC, audience facilitator and chef.
A part of Dance/Metro DC's
Dance Is the Answer 2010.