{"id":2850,"date":"2014-04-28T05:53:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featurezoo.net\/wordpress\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2021-03-14T22:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T02:51:02","slug":"stranger-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"STRANGER ON EARTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent in our number of <a href=\"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/?s=carl+hancock+rux\">collaborations<\/a> with writer \/ performer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Hancock_Rux\">Carl Hancock Rux<\/a>. <em>Stranger on Earth<\/em>, a work in progress for theater, postulates an imaginary vortex triggered by the artistic struggles and misadventures of Dinah Washington, and the radical literary headspace of James Baldwin. Longtime Rux-collaborator, Marcelle D. Lashley steps into Washington\u2019s shoes, with hypnotic restraint and Carl becomes the voice and presence of Baldwin. They volley against the spare but lush backdrop of <a href=\"http:\/\/burntsugarindex.com\/artist\/jason-dimatteo\/\">Jason DiMatteo<\/a> on bass and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instantculturemusic.com\/\">Ted Cruz <\/a>on piano\u2014and visuals by Featurezoo.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip below, Marcelle rehearses <em>This Bitter Earth <\/em>with Jason and Ted for the April 26 show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorklivearts.org\/\">New York Live Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/93043371?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent in our number of collaborations with writer \/ performer Carl Hancock Rux. Stranger on Earth, a work in progress for theater, postulates an imaginary vortex triggered by the artistic struggles and misadventures of Dinah Washington, and the radical literary headspace of James Baldwin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[129,212,211,213,214,22,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}