The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2024 – Night 7
featuring ankita, Devon Wade Granmo + Stephen Bron, Mack Lawrence, Camille Simone Thomas
April 16, 2024
8pm

The spiritual successor to The Exponential Festival, ?!:New Works features a veritable slew of experiment(al)(ing) artists from a variety of disciplines presenting brand new work. Working it out. With each other. With you.

saza/punishment/ by ankita – April 16 & 17

saza/punishment/ entangles Hindu goddess Kali’s ultimate power and destructive nature with present-day authoritarianism and religious violence, using myth to unpack how Hinduism has been shaped into propaganda for nationalism by Western influence. Tracing Kali’s deification, saza accompanies her transformation into a colonized, fetishized, destructive image that upholds violence with her bloodied tongue. As she comes down from idolatry, Kali and her disciple engage in a dance of punishing forgiveness and forgiving punishment.

Choreographed by: ankita sharma

Performed by: Eyner Roman and ankita sharma 

Composed by: Max Sarkowsky

Vocals by: Saluja Siwakoti

Prop by: Soren Kodak

Image Credit: Photography by Samovar Film Productions ; Performer: ankita sharma

cw: nudity – topless

Ankitacreates.space, @nki.creates 

Cave Play by Devon Wade Granmo + Stephen Bron – April 16 & 17

Let’s go underground. Let’s crawl through the dark. Let’s feel the weight of the earth above us. Let’s dance with a bat. Tunnels, caves and cisterns? We got ’em.

Devon Wade Granmo, writer & performer

Stephen Bron, designer & performer

Find them: devonwadegranmo.com, stephenbron.com, @devon_wade_granmo, @stephenbron_

Dinner by Mack Lawrence – April 16 & 18

Written by Mack Lawrence

Co-directed by Mack Lawrence + Logan Gabrielle Schulman

Performed by Raychel Ceciro, Murphy Severtson, Lulu West, and Kayla White

Find them: @macklaw_ macklawmacklaw.com @schul.mmm loganschulman.net

Sweetblood by Camille Simone Thomas – April 16 & 18

Today I’m presenting music from my play in progress Sweetblood

Sweetblood follows three free Jamaican Maroon women in 1727 as they struggle to thrive in a world that will soon endure hundreds of years of chattel slavery due to the emerging sugar revolution. As the British forces approach relentlessly they must decide what they are willing to do to survive the encroaching invasion of their land, how far they are willing to go to fight against the disease of colonialism, and what it really means to be a revolutionary.

Written by Camille Simone Thomas
Songs Composed by Camille Simone Thomas
Songs Transcribed by Can Yassar
Performers:
Carter 
Daryl Bright Clay
Jaida Mae
Music Director: Danyele James 
Director: Raecine Singletary 

Find them: @Camille4reel, camillesthomas.com

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