The Hybrid Project

The Hybrid Project

Established in 1999, The Hybrid Project is an interactive performance project that fuses beats, dance, poetry, live music, theatre and more in a series of forums, workshops, laboratories and premiere performances exploring the newest ways to use performance to communicate.

The Hybrid Project selects today’s youngest, newest and boldest performers to come together in an open setting to explore where interdisciplinary performance art is currently headed by Resident artists: Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Chinaka Hodge, The Living Word Project (theatre company of Youth Speaks), and Dan Wolf.

The Hybrid Project aims to constantly relocate the cutting edge, nurturing a new generation of artists and audiences, and making it possible for young people to create new performance on their terms. The Hybrid Project encourages artists and audience members to re-evaluate definitions of performance, to take risks, and to celebrate differences in artistic approach, language, class, culture, age and gender in an effort to create something new.

Previous Hybrid Project participants include Intersection Resident Artists Tommy Shepherd, Erika Shuch & Dan Wolf as well as Tim Barsky, Traci Bartlow, Josh Begley, Biko, Chinaka Hodge, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Robert Karimi, Joe Lopez, Eli Marienthal, Marcus Shelby, Shawn Taylor, Jessica Tully, Sonia Whittle, Youth Speaks and more. The Hybrid Project has also worked with students from School of the Arts, SF State, Laney, Larkin Street, New College, EPI, Alternative Theatre Institute and WritersCorps.

Since its inception, The Hybrid Project has assembled over 500 Bay Area artists working in diverse mediums including dance, beat boxing, poetry, theatre and music to collaborate with hundreds of young people (ages 14 to 26) in a live workshop format to create projects that encourage new performance languages, styles and approaches and that respond to the urgent concerns of the world around us.  The Hybrid Project emphasizes multi-generational exchange and blurs the line between teacher and student as much as possible. Each year, we work with our Community Partners (Larkin Street Youth Center, Guerrero House, Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club, Youth Speaks, Writers Corps, and SOTA) to recruit 20 young people between the ages of 14 and 26 to participate in the workshops.

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