Uncovered
A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters

PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW

Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters is a Hip Hop ode to the masters of a recent genre that has come to symbolize American creativity. It is loosely based on Laguna Beach's The Pageant of the Masters that recreates famous historical artworks through the Tableau Vivant-Living Pictures-where live actors merge with sophisticated lighting, elaborate set pieces, an orchestra and narrator to recreate in the third dimension an illusory version of the famed originals. Uncovered performances will not just create tableaus of classic album covers. The careful choreography of the visual form, movement, music, and narrative will act as an invocation of the seminal album covers and the way they embodied the spirit of the times when Hip Hop was coming of age and becoming the new American cultural force. Through movement, music and theater, live actors, dancers, and a DJ have turned the Sweeney Art Gallery into a stage where the unbridled creativity of one the most distinctive American cultural movements in this generation takes flesh, stands up, and is recognized. Rickerby Hinds, his cast and crew, have taken a timeless concept and given it a fresh update that invokes the way art intersects with daily life. UCR Sweeney Art Gallery is truly appreciative of his vision and their commitment.