Hip Hop Theater Festival

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This festival of theater, dance, spoken word and live music is a sampling of new creative works from a diversity of cultures and points of view.

Keepin It Moving: The Legacy of Sandman Sims

Choreographed and Directed by Holly Bass
A Work Commissioned by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

Keepin It Moving is a new hip-hop theater work based on the legacy of the Apollo Theater and the life of Howard "Sandman" Sims. Conceived by DC hip-hop theater luminary, Holly Bass, the work explores black dance traditions from tap to house to hip hop. Hip-Hop's four elements boil down to the beat, the rhyme, the dance and the message, and Howard "Sandman" Sims did all of those things as he danced across generations, transmitting black history and culture through fancy footwork, syncopated beats, boast rhymes and artistic innovation.