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Gestating Baby Volume 4: Alex Franz Zehetbauer and The Million Underscores
Alex Franz Zehetbauer and The Million Underscores
April 27 - April 29
$20 – $35
The Brick presents
Gestating Baby Volume 4: Alex Franz Zehetbauer and The Million Underscores
April 27-29, 2023 at 8pm
$20-35 sliding scale
Featuring Two New Works
An Evening with (work-in-progress) by Alex Franz Zehetbauer and SLOWDANCE by The Million Underscores
An Evening with (work-in-progress) by Alex Franz Zehetbauer
In “An Evening with”, singer and sonic choreographer Alex Franz Zehetbauer inhabits the intimate concert classic: a vocalist and a piano. The audience is invited for an evening that playfully uses the tradition of the song as a means of punctuating the gathering of people. Melodies and lyrics mold an ever-shifting mood and atmosphere in the room. The ritual of the song is celebrated as a force for coming together, to resonate, to mourn, as a call to protest, to tell stories, and to manifest alternative futures.
At the moment, Alex Franz Zehetbauer is working on the project “”An Evening with””, which researches the tradition of the song as a means of punctuating the gathering of people – the song as a carrier bag – the ritual of the song as a force for coming together, to mourn, to resonate, as a call to protest, to tell stories, and to manifest alternative futures.
Alex is curious to investigate the cultural impact of songs themselves: from ancient creation myths where it’s said that a song brought the universe into existence to revolutions incited by the people going out into the streets to sing banned songs to the rapid production of pop “hits” and their homogenous forms. He will also explore the context of the intimate concert format: An Evening with _______. His intent is to strange and queer this format and to play with one of its classic set ups of a singer and a piano.
Find them: www.alexfranzzehetbauer.com / @afranzz @mollusca_productions_100 @freischwimmen.netz @ig_freietheaterarbeit @brut_wien
SLOWDANCE by The Million Underscores
SLOWDANCE and it is a duet between Timothy Scott and Nicolás Noreña
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This residency is supported by ACT OUT, a project of IG Freie Theaterarbeit, funded by BMEIA.
“An Evening with”” is supported by FREISCHWIMMEN, the production platform for performance and theater, supported by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, HochX Theater and Live Art München, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, Schwankhalle Bremen, SOPHIENSÆLE Berlin and Theater Rampe Stuttgart, officially operated by SOPHIENSÆLE GmbH, made possible within the framework of the program “”Promoting Connections”” of the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts and supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.”
Gestating Baby is a semi-regular series of split bill performances curated by Theresa Buchheister and Ryan William Downey that presents new and unpredictable works across the spectrum of theatrical performing arts. It began in 2013 at The Silent Barn and is now revived at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, NY.
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