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Second Season: Goldfish by Shuping Yang and B.W.A. Black Women Anonymous by Whitney Geohagan and April Monu

The Goldfish

By Shuping Yang, Directed by Olivia Brann

Enter the mind of a Chinese son, "the golden child," as he struggles between traditional Confucian values and Western notions of individuality. When his cousin Li Yi visits him the night before his wedding, Xiao Zhong is faced with a series of life changing decisions that will affect his family, his relationships, and his future. Is he really free? Or is he just a goldfish stuck in a bowl?

 

NextLOOK: Happenstance Theater: Threshold (OFF SITE)

Residency at Joe's Movement Emporium: February 6-10, 2017

Using spatial dynamics,movement and physical theatre, text, live sound, theatrical clown and improvisational play, Threshold explores moments of transition, from the simplicity of entering and exiting a space, to the profound transition from innocence to experience.

Happenstance Theater engages the audience by bringing curiosity and delight to the idea of crossing over into unknown spaces: the moving, meeting, leaping, partnering, parting, aging and dying that require us to cross the threshold.

NextLOOK: Meghan Abadoo: Gatekeepers (OFF-SITE)

Gatekeepers/All that you touch, You Change is immersive dance-theater that explores the roles of artists in communities as everyday gatekeepers. A gatekeeper in a social system decides which of a certain commodity – materials, goods, and information – may enter the system. The gatekeeper’s choices are a complex web of influences, preferences, motives and common values.

Opera Resonates: Gender-Bending on the Opera Stage

Women play men regularly in opera. For centuries, higher voices were equated with nobility, purity and even virility.  What does this say about attitudes toward gender and the transgendered in ages past? What is our experience today in watching women play romantic male leads and heroes? Sociology, psychology and politics collide in music.

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