Cryptochrome by Evan Silver
Tuesday March 7 at 5pm
Cryptochrome is a freewheeling ritual meditation on wayfinding and navigation. Named after a protein believed to be responsible for the ability to navigate using the electromagnetic field, the work explores forms of perception and intuition beyond the limited scope of the visible. As a visually impaired artist in the process of losing my own sight, its central questions are both urgent and personal. Incorporating a score of original music and text, the work invites audiences on a kaleidoscopic journey across the animal kingdom––from echolocating bats in pitch black caves to birds migrating across featureless oceans––to unearth new insights about how we move through the world in relation to other creatures and one another.
The Art Lovers by Cal lane
Tuesday March 14 at 5pm
Summer 2017. Brian, a recent graduate working at a small-town art museum in upstate NY, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Adriana, a college student and aspiring writer who feels at odds with the institutions in which she is being conditioned to exist. Their connection leads them both to re-evaluate what they want out of life as they plan for a future that is feeling more uncertain by the day.
Bad Day In April by Elinor T. Vanderburg
Wednesday March 15 at 5pm
Written by Elinor T. Vanderburg
Developed and Directed by Sanaz B. Tennent
Music by Chad Raines
It’s a concert. It’s a dinner party. There’s a chaise lounge, half-empty cocktail cabinet, microphones, and plants everywhere. Set in a gentrified Brooklyn apartment in a post vax 2022, it’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” meets “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” An experimental musical about class divides (real and fictional) within our own NYC, within the confines of our own living rooms, that through a kind of dissociative time-warp suggest history is not in fact a long march towards progress. Through this work, we will investigate class, race and cultural amnesia as we offer an apocalyptic and provocative vision of things to come.
Sex and the Abbey by Diana Ly
Friday March 17 at 5pm
Hrotsvit, the first known western female playwright, was a secular canoness in 10th Century Saxony who lived in Gandersheim Abbey.
The Abbey was not a place for cloistered, solemn religious pursuit, as we might imagine nuns now, but rather, a place where wealthy families sent their girls to be educated and socialized, even if they were destined for marriage. These abbeys were fertile communities of smart, well-to-do women, including younger girls who were grappling with their sexuality, their expectations of marriage, and their place in a broader society that saw them as merely tokens of transactional marriages. Likely, these were the only places that smart, independent women could be themselves. But that doesn’t mean they were free.