What: Performance of Len Fonte's Hip-Shake to benefit Partners for Arts Education

Where: Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street

When: Tuesday, July 1, 6:00 pm

Why: part of a celebration of this year's arts-in-education partnerships in Central New York

Tickets: $35, $20 for students. Call 234.9911

Get in touch with your inner Sarah Bernhardt or 50 Cent, or maybe both, at a performance of Hip-Shake at Syracuse Stage's Storch Theater.

You’ll hear how the linguistic and cultural odd couple of a hip-hop artist and an actor from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre find the similarities in their language. Long-time Syracuse theater educator Len Fonte wrote the one-act play, with the collaboration of Rochester poet and performer Reenah Golden, to help both adults and young people get past the stereotypes associated with these contrasting forms of dramatic expression and appreciate the artfulness in both. It's full of humor, surprises, and impassioned language.

A benefit for Partners for Arts Education (PAE), it's part of a celebration of arts-in-education partnerships that reached hundreds of Central New York students in the 2007-08 school year. The 6:00 pm performance will be followed by a reception. Tickets are $35 for adults, $20 for students. To make your reservations, call Kristin at PAE at 234-9911.