The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2024 – Night 8
featuring ankita, Eva Wolfson, Anabella Lenzu, Devon Wade Granmo + Stephen Bron
April 17, 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

The Process of Self-Penetration by Anabella Lenzu – April 17 & 23

The Process of Self-Penetration reflects Anabella Lenzu’s experience as an artist living in New York and comes from a deep examination of her motivations as a woman, mother, and immigrant.

Choreographer: Anabella Lenzu 

Dancers: Anabella Lenzu & Fiamma Lenzu-Carroll 

Text: Jerzy Grotowski

Additional Choreography: Isadora Duncan “Le Mere” (1921) 

Music: Alexander Scriabin

Coach/ Reposition Isadora Duncan Repertory: Catherine Gallante

Costume Design: Jennifer Johanos

Photo credit: Todd Carroll Dancers; Anabella Lenzu & Fiamma Lenzu-Carroll

Find them: @AnabellaLenzu AnabellaLenzu.com

The Birth of MonstHER: This Tranny is Going to DESTROY THE WORLD by Eva Wolfson – April 10 & 17

Doctor has been at work in the lab and it’s time for The Birth of MonstHER!!! Will this tranny overcome her monstrous nature and become a real woman OR will she lay waste to the audience, our society, and THE WHOLE WORLD?!? In “The Birth of MonstHER: This Tranny is Going to Destroy the World ” drag and theater artist Eva Wolfson pushes her bimbo-ified version of Frankenstein’s monster out of her imaginary womb and onto the stage.

Creator and MonstHER: Eva Wolfson

Director: Meaghan Robichaud

Brad Williams, Fight Choreography, and Wardrobe Assistant: Mackenzie Grace

Dramaturg: Kara Hadden

Video by Kitty Richardson

Image Credit: Designed by Eva Wolfson and Meaghan Robichaud

cw:  blood and violence onstage; mentions of rape and transphobia

Find them:  @theevawolfson, @frankensteinsmonsther, @meaghanrobi , @bigmac_littlemac and @krhadden

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_

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