week one
Benjamin Domask-Ruh
Physical Theater Artist "Yellow Clown: A Day in the LIfe of a Damned Fool" Yellow Clown is a sad individual where nothing seems to go right. With a heavy sigh and an even heavier heart, he goes about his day with a malaise reminiscent of melancholy. Yet, we love him! Is it his relatable bad luck? Or the inspiration from his persistence to keep showing up? Benjamin's WEBSITE |
Jess Forest
Dancer, Choreographer, and Visual Artist New Work An evening of theater performance rooted in dance, a close and immersive portrayal of experiencing the self and others through memory. Using sculptural objects and projected images created with the performers over several years, a story emerges of individual and shared experiences as well as individual and shared identities. Choreography, set design, film, and costumes by Jess Forest Performed by Jennifer Mack, Sharon Picasso, and Jess Forest. Jess' WEBSITE |
week two
Sam Johnson
Performance Maker stove burner, keys This is all to tell. This is a dance. It’s how i’m figuring out how. I hope it’s useful. Working with the audience the dance builds and destroys meaning in a space between cognition and feeling. A repetition of spoken worries asks how to acknowledge the immense range of being alive right now. Through an embodiment of fictionalized ancestry the movement manipulates the text, reconfiguring this exhaustive list into a ritual, a declaration, a soliloquy, a eulogy. I’m forever drawn to how multiple forms and content layered together make something new; the slippage between elements. With this performance, like every performance I make, I’m trying to figure out why dance matters; to me and to the world. I want to settle into a semiotic frustration, and to keep raising the idea that boredom and exhaustion (physical but also formal) might open up space for the physical presence of bodies. Sam's WEBSITE |
Queen Drea
Musician and Improvisor "Started From the Bottle, now I'm here..." A visual and musical exploration of my journey to sobriety. This is a piece of work. I am a piece of work. This is a work in progress, as am I...
Queen Drea Voice-Loops N Effects creates conceptual soundscapes. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language to her lyrics and compositions, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way and likes to involve the audience in conversation as they accompany her on her musical journey. Her performances directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, her work references love, pain, the feeling of not being “enough as a form of resistance against the "Normalcy" box people want to put her in. |
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