Ranters Theatre/Intimacy Photo by Paulo Pacheco The presentation of Intimacy strips away all pretense, leaving two stools, a text display, and a screen. Without any fancy theatrical apparatus, performers Adriano Cortese, Beth Buchanan, and Patrick Moffatt are left to hold our attention with only their unflinching honesty....
The Inscription Project / Renegade Performance Group The late artist and theoretician, Rammellzee (alternatively RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ,) identified in his philosophy of Gothic Futurism the power of language and the alphabet itself as both a tool of oppression and liberation for marginalized communities. Through his practice as a visual...
WILDCAT! is a collective of interdisciplinary artists that place their focus on the work of making. Durational and repetitive in nature, what they have made is extremely challenging but highlights the faults of American society at large. It's hard work and you worry for the...
David Neumann and Advanced Beginner Group I UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING BETTER NOW is inspired by the death of David Neumann's parents which sandwiched Hurricane Sandy. A hurricane is an appropriate metaphor for this performance. We see a flurry of emotions centered around the decline of a...
In the remarkably elegant Yesterday Tomorrow, director Annie Dorsen has created a poignant meditation on what it means to be present, particularly in our contemporary screen-obsessed world. The third in Dorsen’s trilogy of algorithmic theatre pieces, Yesterday Tomorrow tasks three extraordinary singers in sight reading...
o’ death / Findlay//Sandsmark + Pettersen A performance of seemingly opposing concepts and representations: natural and synthetic, cold and warmth, intimacy and distance o’ death is a challenge to the concept of mortality and an exploration of anxiety amidst mechanized rustling tree branches and towering, glowing...
#ItGetsBitter /DARKMATTER Imperialism, gut flora, white supremacy, leftist nursery rhymes, the gentrification of “the” LGBT movement, and Harry Potter’s supposed Patil twins are all subjects of poetic expression and biting political satire for queer duo, DARKMATTER in their evening #ItGetsBitter. South Asian performers Janani Balasubramanian and...
Rooted in "Going Forth By Day", a canon of Egyptian Funerary texts, Kaneza Schaal's GO FORTH has the audience journey to the underworld (technically underwater) to examine the complexities of Death. This journey is literal. Audience is guided through the basement corridors of the Westbeth...
Antonio Ramos and The Gang Bangers leave little between themselves and audience in this fascinating dance piece that's all about testing the nature of intimacy. The performers wear costumes that simultaneously obscure and reveal. This creates a tension that intensifies as the performer's bodies cut through...
#negrophobia / JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO ABRONS ARTS CENTER Underground Theater 466 Grand Street, New York, NY, United States FRI JAN 8, 5:30 PM SAT JAN 9, 8:30 PM SUN JAN 10, 5:30 PM MON JAN 11, 8:30 PM Running time: 75 minutes Tickets: Ticket Price: $20 Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s #negrophobia is a performance, a provocation, an autobiography,...
The TEAM Roosevelvis Walker Art Center photo by Sue Kessler When developing Roosevelvis, the TEAM came upon the fact that Elvis had posted on his office wall Teddy Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena, a quote which places the credit for all good things not on those who criticize and nitpick,...
Sorrow Swag / LIGIA LEWIS ABRONS ARTS CENTER Playhouse 466 Grand Street, New York, NY, United States Viscerally nightmarish and spectacular in its simplicity, Sorrow Swag draws its audience into a sensorial abyss populated by cultural remnants of the Western canon. Choreographed by Ligia Lewis with live sound by George...