A performance event in which Anonymous Ensemble invites the audience to spend an evening on an island far from their daily lives, yet mysteriously inhabited by their inner lives. Straddling the line between a theatre show and a participatory event, this completely spontaneous, yet meticulously crafted piece investigates the evolution of our imaginations as we …
The Return is a Rebetiko music adaptation of Euripides’s The Bacchae and is intercultural in both form and content. Setting the narrative of the ancient play in Athens in the early 1990s, and interpreting the character of Dionysus as an enigmatic, Greek-American rock star named Acolyte, the piece explores issues of cultural colonialism, marginalization, appropriation, and xenophobia. Acolyte was …
Troop Troupe is a fictionalized USO show in the present moment that is revealed to be a reconstruction created by a future civilization based on digital archeology. It addresses the fetishization of warfare by our culture and our determination to characterize foreigners as enemies. La Mama E.T.C., Premiere, October, 2009Mabou Mines, P.S. 122, Residency and …
Alice, a talented urban dreamer approaching middle age, is caught in a quagmire of diminishing potential, corporate insignificance and the mirage of celebrity. This is Lewis Carrol deconstructed by the mind of a modern, mature songstress on a journey of self-identity. A befeathered spectacle; a psychedelic, multimedia/music-fueled trip down the rabbit hole. July 8 – …
Wanderlust is a narrative dance party adventure guided by the ten-foot-tall faux German powerhouse, Tall Hilda. The audience is invited to enact a storybook search for human beauty that involves elaborate masks, puppetry, kabaret, a snow ball fight, a game of vampire tag, and numerous theatrical “audience dance breaks” featuring the break-core music of Venetian …
The Best began as a protest against the United States invading Iraq and beginning its unending War on Terror. It was loosely based on a constellation of ancient Greek plays set in Thebes and featured a consistent cast of semi-fictional “web personas.” The Best developed into a five-year epic that spanned genres including: a stage …