In Performance- Page 6

Maneries Luis Garay Walker Art Center On stage before the lights go down, dancer Florencia Vecino stands holding a plastic water bottle, and DJ Mauro Ap sits on the floor in front of a laptop. When the scenes descends into a murky

Rabih Mrouré/Riding on a Cloud Photo by Joe Namy Using recorded voice and video mixed with live performance, Riding on a Cloud paints a documentary picture of Yassar Mrouré’s life after the Lebanese civil war. With a stack of tapes and videos

In Destruction, composer and countertenor M. Lamar floats into the intimate Underground Theatre at Abrons Arts Center to the sound of death bells, draped in a black leather coat. With an androgynous, otherworldly presence reminiscent of Prince or Bowie, his haunting voice

Steve of Tomorrow / David Commander/ Rob Ramirez FRI JAN 15, 8PM SAT JAN 16, 11PM & 8PM University Settlement 184 Eldridge Street Through a combination of multimedia, puppetry, and toy theatre deliberately walking the line between high tech and low class,

The Holler Sessions / Frank Boyd If there is one theme that particularly emerges from Frank Boyd’s 80 minute solo performance, The Holler Sessions, it is listening. Not only hearing the curated selection of classic Jazz Boyd’s Kansas City DJ broadcasts, nor

Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobham/ Morphia Series Photo by Rachelle Roberts Visitors to Morphia Series are led into the dark space two at a time and instructed to take a morsel of food and a tiny glass of wine before being seated.

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

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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

#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

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

Discotropic / NIV ACOSTA (USA) WESTBETH ARTISTS COMMUNITY 55 Bethune Street; New York, NY, United States WED JAN 6, 8:00 PM FRI JAN 8, 5:00 PM SAT JAN 9, 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM SUN JAN 10, 4:00 PM Running time: 90