The Brick presents
?!: New Works 2023 – Night 6
featuring Sofia Engelman, Brynn Hambley, Taiwo Aloba, Mason Lee Dance Theater
April 12, 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.

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If so, was it good?
by Sofia Engelman, Lindsey Jennings, Delaney McDonough, and Em Papineau

If so, was it good?, a new dance work by long time friends and new time collaborators Sofia Engelman, Lindsey Jennings, Delaney McDonough, and Em Papineau, explores truth telling, lying, conspiracy, and fake news to grapple with personal, political, and cultural identity and ideology in 2023. The quartet move through improvisational interviews, toggling between and falling into roles of interrogators, supporters, witnesses, victims, love interests, protagonists, conspiracists, and tricksters.

choreography, text, and performance by Sofia Engelman, Lindsey Jennings, Delaney McDonough, and Em Papineau
image designed by Lindsey Jennings

Follow them: IG: @fake_choreogra_queers + @_lindseyjennings + @delane_freighttrain

Antidotal
by Brynn Hambley

A surreal look at the experience of feminine identified people with invisible illness/disabilities, Antidotal is unapologetic in its analysis of the medical industry’s negative feelings towards feminine patients as well as the anger, grief, and guilt that chronic illness patients deal with every day. An experimental, no-holds-barred exploration that encourages the audience to put themselves in the shoes of disabled and chronically ill people.

Directed by Caitlin Mayernik
Cast TBD

cw: disability, medical trauma, suicidal ideation, body horror

Find them: www.brynnhambley.weebly.com ; @librarians_daughter on Instagram, @librariansdaugter on TikTok ; @caitlimay on Instagram

Our Father
by Taiwo Aloba

The death of an influential patriarch provokes existential angst and familial division among his children.

Written and Directed by: Taiwo Aloba
Performer: Jakai Brown

Follow them: TaiwoAloba.com @modelvoss

UNTITLED 34: IN THE FIRE, WE BURN
by Mason Lee Dance Theater

A couple has to make a very tough decision.

Dancers: Alexa Flores and Edoardo Torresin
Photo Credit: Eric Hart Jr.

Find them: IG: mason__cummings Website: https://masoncummingsdance.squarespace.com/

Lineups are subject to change.

Art by Mark Toneff

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