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Theater | Leonard Nimoy Thalia
Expected Run Time is 90 minutes
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Description
The HawtPlates are a family singing group consisting of Justin Hicks, Jade Hicks, and Kenita Miller-Hicks, who create distinctive vocal works by breaking down folk and vernacular musical forms and reconstituting them into other modes of performance. By playing within and outside of the tradition of black singing styles, repetition, experimentation with text, and deep listening, their style pays homage to how soul music and the black voice can be heard.
This program will run approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.
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The HawtPlates are a family singing group, consisting of Justin Hicks, Jade Hicks, and Kenita Miller-Hicks, and was formed in a one-bedroom apartment in The Bronx. While living together, they found ways of addressing many of the issues unfolding around them in their neighborhood, in the city, in the world, and in their work lives, assembling around a problem, a joke, a feeling, or an urge, and singing their way through it. All three members have worked in music, theater, and art, and have used this project as a way to create together, and as a means to remain close, and stay connected.
More a performance trio than a band, the HawtPlates make conceptual live vocal works by breaking down folk and vernacular musical forms and reconstituting them into other modes of performance. Their work is a way to honor their lineage and personal histories, while playing within and outside of the tradition of black singing styles, especially as they relate to the labor of movement building and outwardly reporting the black and ultimately human experience. They play with found objects, electronics, noise, and acapella arrangements that convey a delight in exploration - mining materials for the histories they carry within them. Through repetition, experimenting with text, and deep listening the HawtPlates embody a style that pays homage to the members roots yet expands how “soul” music and the black voice can be heard.
Together and individually, The HawtPlates have served as muses, of sorts, to various artists such as Meshell Ndegeocello, Abigail DeVille, Kaneza Schaal, Charlotte Brathwaite, and have collaborated with the likes of Hilton Als, Helga Davis, Cauleen Smith, Steffani Jemison, Reggie "Regg Roc" Gray and The D.R.E.A.M. Ring, National Black Theater, The Guthrie Theater, The Public Theater, Performance Space New York, and The Park Avenue Armory, among others.
