{"id":13035,"date":"2014-04-07T13:10:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=13035"},"modified":"2014-04-07T13:10:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:10:32","slug":"prophets-of-funk-by-david-dorfman-dance-is-wednesday-night-at-the-ford-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/prophets-of-funk-by-david-dorfman-dance-is-wednesday-night-at-the-ford-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophets of Funk by David Dorfman Dance is Wednesday Night at The Ford Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><strong><i><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/funky.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13037\" alt=\"funky\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/funky.jpg?resize=600%2C400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/funky.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/funky.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Prophets of Funk<\/i><\/strong> is an evening that celebrates <strong>Sly and the Family Stone<\/strong>\u2019s groundbreaking, visceral, powerful music, and the struggles and celebration of everyday people. <strong>David Dorfman Dance<\/strong> and Sly and the Family Stone find common purpose in the prophetic possibilities of music and dance that invite everyday people to find ardor in the muck and mess \u2013 the funk \u2013 of life. <i>Prophets of Funk<\/i> seeks to lift up the spirit of Sly: insisting that in the face of this funk, there are still hopes and aspirations that reside in all of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">For this performance DDD has invited previous collaborators OBIE Award winning dramaturge <strong>Alex Timbers<\/strong>, creative consultant\/scholar-in-residence <strong>David Kyuman Kim<\/strong>, and media designer <strong>Jacob Pinholster<\/strong> to join forces again with the company and deepen a dynamic engagement of movement driven by the popular \u2013 and populist \u2013 sounds of Sly and the Family Stone. Performers for this project include: <strong>Kyle Abraham<\/strong>, <strong>Meghan Bowden<\/strong>, <strong>David Dorfman<\/strong>, <strong>Luke Gutgsell<\/strong>, <strong>Renuka Hines<\/strong>, <strong>Raja Kelly<\/strong>, <strong>Kendra Portier<\/strong>, <strong>Jenna Riegel<\/strong>, <strong>Karl Rogers<\/strong>, and <strong>Whitney Lynn Tucker<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Check out this video from DorfmanDance on YouTube:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eH48uKqFSI8]<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Another great video of\u00a0<em>Prophets of Funk<\/em> from YouTube user PillowTV:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8DV03J4pVlw]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prophets of Funk is an evening that celebrates Sly and the Family Stone\u2019s groundbreaking, visceral, powerful music, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":13036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[3218,3211,414,3216,3217,3215,3209,3212,3210,3214,3213],"class_list":["post-13035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-shows","tag-dance","tag-david-dorfman","tag-ford-center","tag-jenna-riegel","tag-karl-rogers","tag-kendra-portier","tag-kyle-abraham","tag-luke-gutgsell","tag-meghan-bowden","tag-raja-kelly","tag-renuka-hines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Funk.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}