Official CultureCrew Selection

Official CultureCrew Selection

14 Episodes

IPAY CultureCrew Festival is IPAY's first virtual global gathering around youth-selected performing arts featuring 14 productions for young audiences from around the world. Join presenters, agents, artists, and IPAY’s international community in celebrating our first ever Conference and Festival featuring ONLY works selected by young people.

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Official CultureCrew Selection
  • The Nonexistent | DynamO Théâtre

    Episode 1

    DynamO Théâtre
    Title of Performance: The Nonexistent
    Country: Canada

    This show was born out of all those mornings when co-artistic director, Yves Simard, read in the newspapers about the tragic stories of migration. A feeling of sadness and powerlessness inhabits him when he hears of these event...

  • Adapting History | Dahlak Brathwaite

    Episode 2

    Dahlak Brathwaite
    Title of Performance: Adapting History
    Country: United States

    Adapting History is an oral telling of American music through history and American history through music. From gospel to blues, jazz to R&B, America has produced some of the most innovative music of the 20th century....

  • The Spirit of Harriet Tubman | Leslie McCurdy / Li'l Ol' Me Productions

    Episode 3

    Leslie McCurdy / Li'l Ol' Me Productions
    Title of Performance: The Spirit of Harriet Tubman
    Country: Canada

    For 24 consecutive years, Leslie has been performing The Spirit of Harriet Tubman touring across Canada (7 provinces), the US (10 states incl. Alaska and DC), and London, England. Her per...

  • Citizen James, or The Young Man Without a Country | Syracuse Stage

    Episode 4

    Syracuse Stage
    Title of Performance: Citizen James, or The Young Man Without a Country
    Country: United States

    Meet a 24-year-old James Baldwin at LaGuardia Airport. Young James is an unknown aspiring "Negro" writer who has yet to write and publish his first novel. He awaits his flight, having ju...

  • LEONARDO AND SAM- a film by Manual Cinema

    Episode 5

    Manual Cinema
    Title of Performance: Leonardo & Sam: The Terrible Monster and the Most Scaredy-Cat Kid in the Whole World, Respectively
    Country: United States

    Leonardo is a terrible monster. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just...isn't. Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in th...

  • La Galerie | Machine de Cirque

    Episode 6

    Machine de Cirque
    Title of Performance: La Galerie
    Country: Canada

    White. Entirely white. At an immaculate exhibit, a plume of color is promptly cleaned up. The visitors are delighted to return to monochrome perfection. Little by little, something seems off, things go haywire. The stage graduall...

  • No fun ction alL anguage | Inclusive Arts Collective and Jayne Batzofin

    Episode 7

    Inclusive Arts Collective and Jayne Batzofin
    Title of Performance: No fun ction alL anguage
    Country: South Africa

    Searching the in-between spaces where words fail us. No fun ction alL anguage takes a microscopic look at the in-between spaces where words fail us - where we desperately search for ...

  • More Dogs/Orkater | Real Boys

    Episode 8

    More Dogs/Orkater
    Title of Performance: Real Boys
    Country: The Netherlands

    More Dogs is a Belgian collective of writers, makers, performers and musicians who studied drama together at the Antwerp Conservatory. Individually they are all young movers & shakers on the Belgian theatre and music scen...

  • American Dance from Africa to Broadway | OKRA DANCE

    Episode 9

    OKRA DANCE
    Title of Performance: American Dance: From Africa to Broadway
    Country: United States

    AMERICAN DANCE: FROM AFRICA TO BROADWAY centers the stories of adaptation and resilience of enslaved Africans in America, and honors the immense outpouring and intermingling of creativity from all of ...

  • Voice Lab | Polyglot Theatre

    Episode 10

    Polyglot Theatre
    Title of Performance: Voice Lab
    Country: Australia

    Voice Lab is Polyglot's creative module for listening to the thoughts and opinions of children. Voice Lab pays close attention to what children think, feel and say, enabling their ideas to be shared to make positive change. Voic...

  • REFUGE | Sultans of String

    Episode 11

    Sultans of String
    Title of Performance: REFUGE
    Country: Canada

    Sultans of String's new show, REFUGE, features incredible talents from US/Canada, many of whom arrived as recent immigrants and refugees. The group highlights extraordinary artistic contributions of those that have arrived here from ...

  • The R.E.M.I.X | SOLE Defined

    Episode 12

    SOLE Defined
    Title of Performance:The R.E.M.I.X
    Country: United States

    SOLE Defined's The R.E.M.I.X. is an immersive percussive dance experience for students of all ages. The show intersects the elements of percussive dance; Rhythm, Energy, Musicality, Improvisation, and our X-factor with the p...

  • YES YES YES | Eleanor Bishop & Karin McCracken

    Episode 13

    Eleanor Bishop & Karin McCracken
    Title of Performance: YES YES YES
    Country: New Zealand

    Jamie and Ari like each other. Karin and Tom do too. They might be at two separate parties, but their stories are identical. Until, they aren't. Part confession, part documentary, part open conversation, YES ...

  • CYCLO | Compañía Aranwa

    Episode 14

    Compañía Aranwa
    Title of Performance: CYCLO
    Country: Chile
    Cyclo from Cia Aranwa is a co-production with COMEDIA Theater in Cologne, Germany. It is a Latin American festive celebration in gratitude to the cycle of life. With a mixture of dances and traditional music from countries such as Mexico,...