Anything But English
The third year of this multilingual cabaret about mother tongues, global appetites, and the ways we are lost and found in translation. In partnership with Patrick's Cabaret. Curated by Margaret Ogas.
Time & Location
Apr 20, 2018, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM
Pangea World Theater, 711 W Lake St # 101, Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA
About
Now in its third iteration, “Anything But English” is a multilingual cabaret about mother tongues, global appetites, and the ways we are lost and found in translation. This series has already presented 46 artists speaking 13 different languages. For a second year we partner with Pangea World Theater for this production curated by Margaret Ogas.
Inspired by Marcus Young’s practice “Don’t You Feel It Too?,” the simple and beautiful act of dancing your inner nature in public places, dancer/choreographer Alys Ayumi Ogura invites other dancers onstage to share their spontaneous dances to music in other languages. Raving Native Productions, a project of writer marcie rendon, presents a short play in Ojibwe, an endangered language, by three Ojibwe speakers. Sandjock Likinè presents a multimodal interpretation of a graphic novel drawn from conversations with her father in Bàsàa, one of Cameroon’s 247 national languages, and one at risk of dying within a…