‘Bounce: A Basketball Performance Event’

Basketball and opera don’t usually appear in the same sentence, much less at the same event. But athletics will meet arias on Sunday, when Ardea Arts and the City Parks Foundation present “Bounce,” a musical theater performance and basketball workshop for children ages 10 to 16 at Coney Island. With a libretto by Charles R. Smith Jr. and music by Daniel Bernard Roumain, “Bounce” presents the story of Isaac Harris, nicknamed Ike the Flight, a young basketball player facing challenges both on and off the court. In addition to the performance, children can enjoy a ball-handling session with Shay Berry, head basketball coach at Hunter College, and be filmed as they express what the sport means to them.