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The Brobot Adventure: Wrath of the Wackness (work-in-progress)

The Brobot Adventure (work-in-progress) is the follow-up show to The Brobot Johnson Experience, where an alien Hip Hop android named Flobot Owens travels through space and time to help humans be better humans.
 

Date

THU-FRI, NOV 12-13, 2020 | 7PM
YouTube Live
Zoom Q&A 

Cost

Free w/ RSVP

Location

Virtual Event

Photo: Marc Millman

The Brobot Adventure (work-in progress) is the follow up show to The Brobot Johnson Experience, where an alien Hip Hop android named Flobot Owens, travels through space and time to help humans be better humans. In Wrath of the Wackness, Flobot Owens, legendary Brobot MC, returns to “abduct” an audience of humans from Earth for a Sci-Fi Hip Hop dance party to eradicate the wackness that’s slowly plaguing his planet. The piece includes intricate live looping that combines verses with beatboxing, vocal melodies, and sound effects while mixing socially conscious lyrics in the genres of Hip Hop, Afrofuturism, and Afrobeat.

Friday's performance (11/13) will be followed by a post-show discussion on Zoom with Darian Dauchan and the cast, starting immediately after the live stream concludes on YouTube. 

HOW TO WATCH

Writer/Composer/Performer: Darian Dauchan 
Director: Andrew J. Scoville 
Featuring: Darian Dauchan, Toni Blackman, Ben Holbrook, Eric Lockley and Cristina Pitter
Video Designers: Sadah Espii Proctor and Brian Pacelli
Lighting Designer: Sarah Johnston
Props Designer: Casey Alexander Smith
Costume Designer: Asa Benally
Audio Engineer: Ray Archie
OBS Programming: Crystal Arnette
Co-Producer: Poetic Theater Productions

Development support provided by the CRITICAL BREAKS Residency Program at Hi-ARTS


HOW TO WATCH:

Thu & Fri, watch the live premier on BRIC's YouTube Live.

Fri, join us on Zoom immediately after the YouTube Live premier:

Webinar ID: 865 4357 1869
Passcode: 715087

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Darian Dauchan
 is an award winning actor, writer, and musician who has appeared on both Broadway and Off Broadway theatre. He is the 2016 Loop Station Vice Champion of the American Beatbox Championships, a finalist for the 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship and more recently completed The Brobot Johnson Project, an Afrofuturism, Sci-Fi Hip Hop transmedia piece. The web series The New Adventures of Brobot Johnson won for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 2017 LA Web Festival, BEST soundtrack at the 2017 Escape Velocity Festival sponsored by the Museum of Science Fiction, and BEST editing at the 2018 Independent Television Festival. The album "Brobot Johnson: Bionic Boom Bap" is now available on iTunes, and the show The Brobot Johnson Experience is a Howard Gilman Foundation Grantee and critically acclaimed Ben Brantley New York Times Critics' Pick.


BRIClab is a multi-disciplinary residency program created to advance opportunities for visual artists, performers, and media makers.

This newly reimagined program offers emerging and mid-career artists essential resources, mentorships, and opportunities to share their work. The residency aims to build a stronger and more diverse artistic community in Brooklyn by supporting long term growth and fostering relationships across disciplines.

The program's four tracks are Contemporary ArtFilm + TVPerforming Arts, and Video Art. Each track offers unique resources designed to meet the needs of varied artistic practices. Residents receive additional financial support, mentorship, skills-based learning opportunities, and documentation of their work. In-progress public programs (virtual and later live) will take place from September 2020 through June of 2021.