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February 2020
The Hopelessly Hopeless Story of All Good Girls
The Hopelessly Hopeless Story of All Good Girls is a play with film and music. The play explores the inner lives of two women- a grandmother and granddaughter- who have experienced an unspeakable loss. They live in a ranch house together, trapped in Colorado, and ruled by their inherited domestic rituals. They go to the store, they dress up in fancy clothes, they smoke cigarettes, they sink into depression, they dread the phone’s ringing, and they drink very tall glasses…
Find out more »BrickFlix presents BILL MORRISON’S DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (2016)
On February 24th, we're proud to present Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), widely acclaimed as one of the decade's top ten films. Live music by a special guest to be announced the day of the show. Director Bill Morrison (Decasia) will attend. BrickFlix is programmed by PHIL HARTMAN -- filmmaker (No Picnic), theater owner (The Pioneer), festival producer (HOWL!) and pizza provocateur (Two Boots). Vintage shorts are curated by legendary cinefile and archivist GARY BALABAN, “NYC’s premier…
Find out more »Community Exercises for Sanctuary Spaces
Directed and Choreographed by Brendan Drake in collaboration with the performers Featuring: Quentin Burley, Lena Engelstein, Shannon Nash and Calvin Tsang Community Exercises for Sanctuary Spaces is an interdisciplinary work for five performers using movement, original text and sound to unearth how emulation and impersonation can function as a coping mechanism for navigating modern systems of gendered power dynamics and homophobia. Drawing explicit connections between the benediction of the blessed sacrement in Catholic Mass tradition, and the ritualistic nature…
Find out more »March 2020
Wallies
This play, which is a hilarious romp, is at the raucous intersection of surveillance and hilarious comedy. Written & performed by Simple Town. Simple Town is Caroline Yost, Will Niedmann, Sam Lanier, Ian Faria & Felipe Di Poi. Is your relationship worth saving in this Police State of Mind, which is at the intersection of surveillance and comedy? In this hilarious romp, Simple Town raucously explores themes of surveillance and relationships. March 5, 6, 7 at 8pm Party to follow…
Find out more »LAPA
LAPA is a mesmerizing language machine for the theater following Landman’s journey to pluck a newly formed star called Agam The Swan: “whoever tears down this star may choose to be freed from dreaming.” Treating language with the material curiosity of early abstract artists LAPA exposes the border of language and sound, of poetry and meaning. The Million Underscores stage this genre-bending work, modulating between visual composition, soundscape, performance, and choreography, to emphasize the distance between words, objects, sound, and…
Find out more »DEVOTION DEVOTION
DEVOTION DEVOTION is an experimental performance by dance artist Lydia Mokdessi and musician Jason Bartell. The duo have developed shared practices of sonic and physical droning, navigating a series of structural trap doors that invite dissonance and distortion in order to de-fetishize the artistic “hand.” Deconstructed memories and cinematic debris are conjured and pressurized into opulent loops and choreography that trouble the relationship of the body to identity, spectatorship, objectification, service, submission, and control, attempting to obstruct intentional decisions-making, erase…
Find out more »April 2020
A Scale Unfamiliar: OZET Songs
For 12 years now, Aaron Meicht and Scott Blumenthal have been creating the world of the Collective Sphere OZET, an agrarian space colony, through live performances, films, and recordings. A Scale Unfamiliar: OZET Songs uses a decade of songs to tell OZET's story from start to finish for the first time. Joining Meicht and Blumenthal are long-time collaborator Daniel Baker and a stellar band featuring drummer Kate Gentile, bassist Devin Hoff, and guitarist Taylor Levine. Words and music by Scott…
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