{"id":437,"date":"2007-05-11T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp\/2007\/05\/go_keo_woolford_in_i_land\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T08:08:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T15:08:06","slug":"go_keo_woolford_in_i_land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/2007\/05\/go_keo_woolford_in_i_land.html","title":{"rendered":"GO: Keo Woolford in &#8220;I Land&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This just in from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinitebody.blogspot.com\/\">Eva:<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nA dancer friend of mine tells me she thinks Keo Woolford (of the autobiographical one-man show, &#8220;I Land&#8221;) is a John Leguizamo wannabe. I can see some of that, but the brilliantly talented Woolford has far more charm and opens a window onto an experience and perspective that is less familiar to us. My friend and I agree on one thing: It would be great to see more of his dancing.<br \/>\nThe 90-minute piece, directed by Roberta Uno, runs through Sunday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultureproject.org\">The Culture Project<\/a>. It traces the ups and downs of Woolford&#8217;s youth in Hawaii and touches on his development as a student and performer of the ancient, authentic hula&#8211;a sacred dance of dignity and focused power.<br \/>\nWoolford&#8217;s acting is a full-bodied affair&#8211;storytelling amplified by body language and gesture: nonstop movement, really&#8211;including choreography by Robert Cazimero (hula) and Rokafella (hip hop). It spans the range of human emotions, and when it is funny, it is very funny indeed.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s hope that Woolford will return to New York soon. In the meantime, if you&#8217;d like to try to catch this show, click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultureproject.org \">The Culture Project<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/wwww.ma-yitheatre.org\">Ma-Yi Theatre<\/a>. <em>&#8211;Eva Yaa Asantewaa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from Eva: A dancer friend of mine tells me she thinks Keo Woolford (of the autobiographical one-man show, &#8220;I Land&#8221;) is a John Leguizamo wannabe. I can see some of that, but the brilliantly talented Woolford has far more charm and opens a window onto an experience and perspective that is less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}