"Hip Hop Theatre: Theatre of Now" at ConnCollege (February 28th)

Daniel will be speaking to a class at ConnCollege on February 28th. 

SAY WORD! @ Revolution Books in NYC (February 29th, 7:00pm)

Daniel will be joined by award winning poets reg e gaines and Eboni Hogan for conversation about Hip Hop Theatre, Poetry, Politics and Performance. 

Revolution Books is located at 146 W. 26th Street (between 6th Ave and 7tn Ave.)
212.691.3345
visit revolutionbooksnyc.org for more information.

ACTING TOGETHER comes to the Santa Fe Art Institute! (Febraury 13th, 6:00pm)

Join Daniel Banks, Roberta Levitow, Jorge de la Torre and Issa Nyaphaga with moderator Pati Sato Monday February 13 @ 6pm

in Tipton Hallfor the feature documentary Acting Together on the World Stage which highlights courageous and creative artists and peacebuilders working in conflict zones.

Winter Dances: Jan 25th and 26th at 7pm and Jan 29th at 2pm

The Dance Department of New Mexico School For the Arts presents its annual Winter Dances, January 25th and 26th at 7pm and January 29th at 2pm at James A. Little Theatre in Santa Fe.  Please join us and support Adam McKinney and the students of the New Mexico School for the Arts!

Announcing the Publication of Acting Together on the World Stage, Vol. 2

Acting Together on the World Stage (New Village Press) features a chapter by Daniel Banks about DNAWORKS/ Hip Hop Theatre Initiative's work in Ghana and South Africa. You can learn more about the book or purchase a copy here.

Everything Helps

A New Year means new opportunities to support DNAWORKS.  Please visit our donations page to make your tax-deductible donation to DNAWORKS. We use your generous donations to tour HaMapah/The Map, a multi-media, genealogical, dance journey that tells the story of Adam McKinney's Ashkenazi, Sephardic, African American, and Native American heritages. We are in the process of bringing HaMapah/The Map to Los Angeles, Saratoga Springs, NY, Atlanta. Milwaukee, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and the UK. We need your help to underwrite the costs of production so that these cities can experience art and dialogue about heritage, identity, and ancestry, critical topics in our society today.  Thank you for your continued support of DNAWORKS!

Welcome to the updated and expanded DNAWORKS website!

Here you will find information about our recent programs and our touring production of HaMapah/The Map, as well as Press and Publications. 

HaMapah/The Map a hit at Rhodes College, Memphis

We just received these testimonials.  Wow!  Thank you, Rhodes!
Adam and Daniel

"Breath taking. Moving. Powerful. The positively best performance I have seen since moving to Memphis!"

- Rhodes Faculty Member

"HaMapah took my breath away. I could not speak right after the performance. I wanted to sit in silence with my thoughts and feelings."

- Patron of McCoy Theatre

"I have never seen anything like it before. It is a new way to tell a story…for me to hear and see a story!"

- Rhodes Student

"On September 9, 2011, McCoy Theatre had the honor of hosting HaMapah. The incredible performance took us on a journey that was not only moving and powerful, but gave us all a sense of hope. The discussion and workshops that followed opened doors for individuals who believed they had no voice, connected individuals who believed they were different and separate from others, and for a brief moment united all present in the awareness of what we could be—what we could do.

This team is so important right now! Uniting our histories, our stories, our humanity; allowing us the ability to actually connect and discover how to truly give and take. These two artists give me hope!”

- Cookie Ewing, Artistic Director, McCoy Theatre

reg e gaines joins the panel for the Dec 8 Book Launch of SAY WORD! Voices from Hip Hop Theater

reg e gaines, Award Winning Writer of BRING IN 'DA NOISE, BRING IN 'DA FUNK, joins the panel for the Dec 8 Book Launch of SAY WORD! Voices from Hip Hop Theater (University of Michigan Press, 2011) Presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center at CUNY Thursday, December 8th at 6:30 pm Panel moderated by noted director, playwright and dramaturg Talvin Wilks. With Panelists: reg e gaines, award winning writer of Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk; Daniel Banks, Ph.D., editor of Say Word!; Michele Shay from the original Broadway cast of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf; and contributors Holly Bass, Kristoffer Diaz, Abiola Abrams and Antoy Grant. Excerpts from the anthology performed by: Carlton Byrd, Inés Garcia, Eboni Hogan and Alejandro Rodriguez. **Admission is Free!**

Click here for information about the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. The Theatre is located in the CUNY Graduate Center at 365 5th Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets

For Information and to purchase a discounted copy please visit: www.SayWordVoices.com

HaMapah\The Map was a hit in Belgrade, Serbia!

HaMapah/The Map was a huge success in Belgrade @ Dah Theatre’s “Passing the Flame Festival!” In attendance was Mother Mejra, a Bosnian Muslim woman activist, who fought to recover her son and daughter’s bones from a mass grave. She continues to do this honorable and tireless work of finding people’s remains and giving names and faces to victims of genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is an amazing woman, who exudes love (I sat weeping as she told me her story. “Don’t cry,” she said. “I am only crying because your capability to love is so deep,” I replied.) Mother Mejra does not allow fear and hate to encumber her humanity and her ability to find humanity and hope in people. What an inspiration!  — Adam McKinney, Co-Director, DNAWORKS