On Fri Jan 30 at 8pm and Sat Jan 31 at 7pm Hope Center Arts presents: Standing in Babylon Theatrical Concert. A blend of songs, fine art, performance art, theater and more. Tickets are available at this link sib.hopecenterarts.org Christianity Todays review described the concert in the following way, House Arrest was a high-energy, dramatic catapult into the show. Amidst a stage of televisions hanging from (and in) chains, Cintron makes his entrance in a shackled cage, wheeled onto the stage by dancers in prison uniforms. Visually and lyrically introducing one of the central motifs of the show—the embattled state of Gods people and word in a circus culture—the piece, like most of the show, walks a tightrope between strident social critique and optimistic faith that believers still have the power to be strong, be bold, [and] be holy. As the shackled television screens ironically play a clip from the Worlds Fair announcing the invention of the television (a new art, bound to affect all society), Cintron sings: Ive been on house arrest By the virtual world. Feeling like theres no other thing to do. Oh the countless times, Ive called it family time. But in reality, I was cutting quality time …
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:04:33 +0000
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