Bequest
Bequest is a brief interactive poem for one participant at a time. The newest experiment from micro-theatre maker Yannick Trapman-O’Brien and certified polymath J. Cleary Rubinos, Bequest is a meditation on loss and inheritance, a place to set something down, and a chance to hold something close.
Beowulf
Beowulf adapted by Charlie Bethelperformed by John Heimbuchdirected by Amy Rummeniedramaturgy by Sarah Heller This fierce one-person retelling modernizes the wit, vigor, and meaty language of the original epic. John Heimbuch performs Charlie Bethel’s tour-de-force adaptation of this classic Old English poem about a warrior king and some famous monsters in this Fringe Festival favorite. 60 minutes, no intermission. Warning: Beowulf contains descriptions of fantasy violence. It is intended for…
Benoît François’ “Total Modeling”
Benoît François’ “Total Modeling” is an absurd avant-clown show about cybernetics on a boat. Part lecture, part throwdown featuring a blind drunk, his invisible man, third birds, and a domesticated ass. A philosophical odyssey weaving together professional wrestling and existential despair. Losing sight, finding vision.
BEN FRANKLIN SEX PARTY
Ben Franklin Sex Party is a time traveling romp of a clown piece about pleasure, shame, giving up on America, and a syphilis epidemic. Adorned with pepperoni nipples, a panty hose penis, and an engorged brain, Ben Franklin blurs the lines between the sticky mess of founding a country and the clear policies necessary before engaging in a sex party. A head slam of a show, which, like the man…
Beautiful Human Lies: Chapter 4
A new, evening-length solo dance performance conjures a dissonant dialogue around identity, transformation, and privilege. In 1999, rising hip-hop artist Rennie Harris created a 7-minute solo dance for Megan Bridge’s student thesis concert at SUNY Purchase. A mashup of street dance and modern dance, including a recorded conversation between the two artists, the work had its professional debut in 2000’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Using the original solo as a seed,…
CANCELED: Ballad Of Puppets
We are not our jobs. We are not how much money we make in the bank.We are not the brands we possess.But we are not the all-dancing and all-singing of the world either.We are individuals.We are what we make ourselves.What we allow ourselves to partake in.Who we aligned ourselves with.Who we protect.We decide what we are, and if we have the willpower, we do not have to bend for anyone,…
BABYBABYBABY
BABYBABYBABY is a dance about dances about love. Interested in the human impulse for connection, this dance work taps into feelings of budding romance, when falling in love is silly and fast and sexy and devastating and you are brilliant and stupid and spellbound. With reference points ranging from early aughts romantic comedies and So You Think You Can Dance duets, to archival footage of live performances by Roberta Flack…
Baby Everything
Lee Minora, the writer/performer of Nosejob and White Feminist, returns with a slippery, sparkling, and savage new solo show: Baby Everything. Directed by Lightning Rod Special’s Alice Yorke (Lions, The Appointment). You’ll laugh. You’ll flinch. You’ll feel seen—too seen. “The best sort of fringe fun wickedly nasty satire with a twist”-BSR.
audiOhm Sound Bath
audiOhm is a live electro-acoustic sound bath that combines elements of meditation, improvisation, psychedelic music, and restorative yoga to create an immersive and transformative auditory and visceral experience. Led by multi-instrumentalist Brett Zweiman and occasional guest musician, audiOhm combines live instrumentation and environmental sounds to create rich and dynamic soundscapes in real-time. audiOhm begins with meditation practice that focuses attention on the breath to help participants quiet their minds and enter…
asses.masses
An epic day of video gaming and uprising: asses.masses invites you to play out the heroic journey of a herd of donkeys trying to get their jobs back. The unemployed donkeys have one demand: the humans must surrender their machines and give all donkeys their jobs back. But revolution is never easy! asses.masses is a custom video game designed to be played collectively from beginning to end by a live audience….
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