The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2023 – Night 15
featuring Leonie Bell, Nathan Repasz, Charlie Chauca, Madeleine Yu-Phelps, Madison Fargo
April 22, 2023
8pm

Hosted by Peter Mills Weiss

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.

Morgen bin ich wieder da
Created by Leonie Bell

looper songs &
lo-fi pocket projector Tanztheater.

where we look for windows
into that morning hour
where nothing stirs

hey we’re just
looking for a pulse

slivers.
silence.

a morning. 
a mourning.

Find them: IG: @leonbellstein / Website: http://leoniebell.org

Lecture on Something
by Nathan Repasz

Nathan Repasz will deliver a “Lecture on Something,” a vacuously futile engagement with John Cage’s “Lecture on Nothing” (1959). Cage’s original work reflects a deep ethos of stillness and contemplation; this lecture will reflect our current ethos of frenetic, bureaucratic, nonsensical, manically serpentine frenzy. The work will present a conceptual foray into linguo-percussive situationism, nonsensical phenomenology, and the liminal space of fundamental misunderstanding, dancing around sense, but never finding footing.

Created by Performed by Nathan Repasz

follow them: www.nathanrepasz.com , IG: @the1truegoiter

cw: flashing lights

photo credit: Simon Riker

¿CÓMO PUEDO AMARME?
Created by Anabel Lugones De León and Charlie Chauca

A desperate escape for calmer waters in an ocean filled with sharks, ¿Cómo Puedo Amarme? dives inside the mind of a Non-Binary Cuban-Dominican, ELLE , amidst their ongoing fight with clinical depression. Through dance, spiritual encounters and scar-filled memories, ELLE, attempts to outswim a storm of sharks to find peace within themselves or drown in familial waters.

Performed by Anabel Lugones De León
Directed by Charlie Chauca
Costume Design by Izzy McClelland

Follow them: Anabel Lugones IG: @Happyfeministhippie . Charlie Chauca IG: @Charliechauca . Izzy McClelland IG: @Izzymcclelland

Ǝverything Okay
byMadeleine Yu-Phelps

A family relocates to Mars to avoid all the problems they face on Earth. They soon realize that it is too late to outrun them as the issues faced on Earth will travel with them until they are properly addressed.

Playwright: Madeleine Yu-Phelps
Director: Nathan Lanum
Tina: Mia Vongsavang
Leslie: Emily Savona
Keith: Dylan Lee
Gail: Madeleine Yu-Phelps
Mark: Keith Beck
Julian: Charlie Razhanskiy
Casting Directors: Jesse Ciron and Avery Durbin

follow them: @everythingokay
cw: flashing lights, mention of mass tragedy and gun violence

The Curtain Speech
by Madison Fargo

The playwright is here to introduce his play. Things do not go as planned.

The Playwright – Matthew Hays
Stage Manager – Lindsey Boyette
Photo Credit – Sebastian Blue

Follow them: @madison_fargo

cw: graphic description of a violent acy

Lineups are subject to change.

Art by Mark Toneff

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