Universes

Universes is a five-member performance group that merges poetry, music and theater. The troupe, which came together three years ago, recently joined with director Jo Bonney and is expanding beyond its Bronx home to a world ready for a fresh approach to spoken word. The quintet aims to find new ways to structure verbal poetry. What the members end up with is consolidated spoken word, theater, jazz, hip-hop, politics, blues and bolero. The members tailor their shows to envelop their audiences and, as well as the ever-changing nature of the full work itself, there's always room for each individual to experiment and play.

[extracted from 2002 brochure]

25th Annual Literary Festival