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Museum of Boulder teams up with CU Boulder faculty to host rooftop听dance party听

The Museum of Boulder is joining forces with the University of Colorado Boulder RAP Lab and Theater & Dance Department to bring听The Museum of Boulder Event: Hip-Hop on the Rooftop听to the Boulder museum听on Sept. 19 from 7 to 9 p.m.听

The event, which features Australian rapper and DJ Nelson Dialect and hip-hop dance pioneers Rennie Harris and Larry Southall, aims to provide Boulder鈥檚 thinkers and artists a space to party, dance and network on the museum鈥檚 rooftop at sunset.听

鈥淗ip-hop is a unifying force,鈥� says Adam Bradley, English professor, Museum of Boulder board member, founder of CU Boulder鈥檚 Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture鈥攂etter known as the RAP Lab鈥攁nd an organizer of the event. 鈥淭he museum helps us celebrate the spirit of the community, and that鈥檚 what Hip-Hop on the Rooftop is all about.鈥澨�

During the event, Dialect will play new and classic hip-hop, reflecting both hip-hop鈥檚 past and its future.听

Dialect is in his second year of a three-year residency in the United States, during which he has spent time in New York recording music, and in Boulder working closely with Bradley and the RAP lab.听

The two have known each other since Dialect was launching his career over seven years ago, and their collaboration sprang from a shared connection over Dialect鈥檚 old school vision of hip-hop.听Dialect will perform 鈥渕usic that makes you want to move, music that will be familiar and music that speaks to our global reality of living on a hip-hop planet,鈥澨齛ccording to Bradley.

Bradley hopes the event helps communities who love hip-hop, dance, or who are just curious about either, to gather and enjoy the art forms together.

Bradley worked with Ondine Geary, the outreach and engagement liaison for the Theater & Dance Department, along with Erika Randall, the chair of the department, to launch the event.听

Geary found the museum鈥檚 rooftop to be a beautiful and culturally significant setting and had a vision of a dance party there. Bradley was the perfect person for Geary to partner with to make the event a reality, she says. Geary believes that realizing her vision will raise the visibility of Boulder鈥檚 vibrant hip-hop community, and deepen ties between the hip-hop community and the broader dance and art communities.听

Hip-Hop on the Rooftop 鈥渇eels like a really rich partnership with a lot of potential for a fun and engaging starting point for something more,鈥� says Geary.听

鈥淲e hope to achieve what hip-hop at its best achieves,鈥� Bradley concludes, 鈥渂oth knowledge and entertainment, both an emerging political awareness and a party.鈥澨�

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