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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1:01:25Episode 1
The Nonexistent | DynamO Théâtre
Episode 1
DynamO Théâtre
Title of Performance: The Nonexistent
Country: CanadaThis 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...
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38:58Episode 2
Adapting History | Dahlak Brathwaite
Episode 2
Dahlak Brathwaite
Title of Performance: Adapting History
Country: United StatesAdapting 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....
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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 StatesMeet 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...
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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 StatesLeonardo 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...
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1:11:47Episode 6
La Galerie | Machine de Cirque
Episode 6
Machine de Cirque
Title of Performance: La Galerie
Country: CanadaWhite. 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...
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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 AfricaSearching 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 ...
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1:04:17Episode 8
More Dogs/Orkater | Real Boys
Episode 8
More Dogs/Orkater
Title of Performance: Real Boys
Country: The NetherlandsMore 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...
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American Dance from Africa to Broadway | OKRA DANCE
Episode 9
OKRA DANCE
Title of Performance: American Dance: From Africa to Broadway
Country: United StatesAMERICAN 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 ...
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09:03Episode 10
Voice Lab | Polyglot Theatre
Episode 10
Polyglot Theatre
Title of Performance: Voice Lab
Country: AustraliaVoice 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...
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45:26Episode 11
REFUGE | Sultans of String
Episode 11
Sultans of String
Title of Performance: REFUGE
Country: CanadaSultans 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 ...
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51:32Episode 12
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 ZealandJamie 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 ...
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43:29Episode 14
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,...