The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2025 – Night 6
Featuring: Seth Bockley/Make New Species | Rae Su & Paolina Gómez Gonzales | Dan Hasse | Jo Warren
April 15, 2025 at 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.

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The Ambiguities by Seth Bockley/Make New Species
Notes toward a Melville megamix, “The Ambiguities” is a first stab at a triptych exploring obsession, evil, and madness through the lens of Herman Melville’s three great novels. “Moby Dick” is a very long book and can’t be performed in ten minutes; “Pierre” is unsettling and incestuous; “The Confidence Man” is cryptic and incomprehensible (also quite long). This contemporary adaptation packages the novels in fragments one inside the other — a 19th century literary nesting doll, dressed up for today.
Text + direction by Seth Bockley

Game of Catch by Rae Su & Paolina Gómez Gonzales
On a weekend away, Pao & Rae kill some time with a game of catch… Hope they don’t drop the ball!
Created and performed by Paolina Gómez Gonzales & Rae Su

Michael Haggerty’s WHERE WERE YOU by Dan Hasse
We’re looking for Michael Haggerty. He’s white, male, 60-70 years old, drives a Jeep, and is making a 9/11 documentary. If you know a Michael Haggerty who matches this description, please contact The Brick.
Written and performed by Dan Hasse
Co-created with Zara Zeidman
Based on the documentary “WHERE WERE YOU” by Michael Haggerty

Neighbors (working title) by Jo Warren
Neighbors (working title) is a dance for eight people that tells non-linear stories about suburbia, the life and death of Jesus Christ, extraterrestrial communication, telepathy, love and living at the end of the world. This work is a series of vignettes – duets, solos and group sections that take place inside imagined living rooms, on lawns and across a great expanse.
Performed by Meg Herzfeld, Nina Guevera, Rose Cole-Cohen, Chloe Engel, Paris Cullen, Sofia Franklin, and Maddie Hopfield

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