Neuro-box-RE-shuffle
What kind of medicine show is this? Immersive video installation for audience/participant of one. Like sorbet for your addled brain between art indulgences. Enter the neuro-box and refresh. Video is a collaboration, produced & created by videographer Sally Linnett. Soundtrack created by PG with assistance from James Mooney and David Goodman.
My Soul is in Command: a tragi-comic musical creep show
Step into a mesmerizing world where the boundaries of reality blur, as “My Soul is in Command: a tragi-comic musical creep show” takes center stage. Conceived, written, and performed by Robert Carlton, with guidance from Jennifer Johnson, “My Soul is in Command…” invites you on a captivating journey of introspection and hilarity. Developed at Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts, this performance weaves together elements of the absurd and the…
My Grandmother’s Eyepatch
What happens when an idiot leads a memorial service for a long-deceased family member? In this off-the-wall-comedy, comedian and improviser Julia VanderVeen leads the audience through wild stages of grief as she attempts to honor her beloved Grandmother. At this particular memorial service, what can go wrong, does, and ends up revealing VanderVeen’s deep humanity. The Orlando Weekley said, “The world’s worst eulogy becomes a masterclass in cringe comedy in VanderVeen’s…
Musicopia Workshop and Performance
This performance and workshop program, by renowned percussionist Dendê Macêdo, uses instruments he made from found materials to deliver a message about protecting our environment through reuse and recycling.
Momentum
Equilibrium Dance Company’s Fringe Show “Momentum” will premiere a variety of new dance works along with guest performances by The Fun Dolls and Checkmate Experience. This is a family friendly show so we welcome all ages to join us for our performance.
MOMMA i RODE THE BEAST!
MOMMA i RODE THE BEAST! is a hyper meta-physical dive into the indulgences of undercurrents that shapes our social and political landscapes, and stores itself in BODY. Through a series of horrific metamorphoses and ruptured happenings as a gothic queer existential necromantic wrestling inquisition with the BULL OF CHAOS, Jordan Deal questions the fugitivity to come thereafter~after it’s rode good. Through the sun of fawnings /dust devil/waterspout–Jordan Deal continues their…
Misket
Two koceks (traditional male dancers) have been dancing to Turkish Folk Music and entertaining audiences to make a living in a Pavyon called Misket in Ankara, Turkey. However, the love they share has been a secret that they’ve had to conceal from the conservative society in Turkey for a long time. Now, after returning from their mandatory military service, it is time for them to address the unspoken and make…
Mirele Lernt Zich Yiddish
A One-Woman Cabal! Bringing in different stories every night, this semi-improvised dance/theater show journeys through my reclamation of Yiddish and the whitening process of Ashkenazi Jewry that squeezed it out of us in the first place. Go beyond schlep and kvetch with me! There’s a slippage in authenticity and ownership. Did WE (Jews/Americans/My family) shape IT (America/Judaism/Whiteness/Nationalism/Culture) or does IT shape US? This performance exists in dialogue with Karen Brodkin’s…
Mind the Gap
They are angry, frustrated, full of woe and angst. But hey they are teenagers! Art therapy descends into surreal absurdity as a group of teens tries to process life and their emotions in todays world. Mind the Gaps is a one-act play that explores the minds of the modern teenager and how they cope with environments that keep them isolated from others. Bullying, mental health and the post pandemic landscape…
mike baby please
mike baby please is a willing reckoning of consequentials, shifting through wrestling, yelling, nestling, grunting, + fucking; there will be tears. seeking out, welcoming, + mourning hitting where it hurts most, we enter — the wrestling smackdown that will ruin us more than we know.
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