Misogynoir: Being Black is tough. Being a Woman is tough. But being a Black Woman is its own special cocktail of oppression. Using their kaleidoscopic sense of humor to dissect media, society and their own relationship, real-life couple Sam and Tabatha search to discover what’s at the core of misogynoir.

Taxilandia is a site-specific play-within-a-tour of a city. Joining Flako the Cabbie, the audience becomes passengers on a dramatic reunion with Flako’s neighborhood. Featuring poetry and testimonials and an ensemble of neighborhood actors. Taxilandia is a front-row, backseat ride on a quest to save the vital tapestry of community in America.

A Hard Time is an alt-comedy cabaret that blows farewell to the patriarchy amid the absurdities and violence of gender expectations.

Works-in-Process are excerpts from new work, in development or recently premiered.

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Where is the Jazz in the Jazz Singer? How come it’s usually white people who want to deal with blackface? Why was this film so damn popular? (((jazz singer))) is a musical interrogation into cultural appropriation, assimilation, atonement, and the performance of American racial identity. You ain’t heard nothing yet.

Turning Towards a Radical Listening is a DJ lecture-performance, in which poems are written with altered DJ technology. GAZR, a poet who has aligned himself with the histories of black music production so that a larger audience may hear his voice, creates soundscapes in real-time from a wide range of privately recorded conversations.

In Bouquet, Valencia examines authorship by questioning what gets carried into her work through the modes of proximity, relation, and alliance. Sourced from various popular and cultural alliances, this particular ensemble of subjects build a choral surround of references that invite the audience into a dense field of collective reference.

Works-in-Process are excerpts from new work, in development or recently premiered.

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The Art of Luv (Part 6): Awesome Grotto! is a ritual performance based on the Ancient Greek Mysteries of Eleusis and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, channeled through the reperformance of a single unpopular shopping “haul” video posted to YouTube on Labor Day 2013 and later deleted by its creator.

Lincoln in the Bardo with Objects: Graham Sack, Sarah Hughes, John Fitzgerald & Matthew Niederhauser (cofounders of experiential production studio Sensorium) are artists from a variety of backgrounds interested in the intersection of live performance and new media technologies. Since 2016 they have collaborated on several projects exploring new ways to tell stories across multiple mediums, and their PRELUDE presentation will survey their work together.

Virtual Water Fountain: A water vapor video sculpture, family altar, and climate change artifact.

Brecht Forensics, Part 1: Drinking Brecht is a way of sharing research into Sister Sylvester’s newest piece, Brecht Forensics, by creating cocktails out of the DNA of former Berliner Ensemble members.

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In this brand new book, Tectonic Theater Project opens the doors to its rehearsal room, illuminating the Moment Work process and how it has been used to create some of Tectonic’s best-known plays.

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In her book Off Sites, Ferdman examines site-based work being done by contemporary companies and artists who are experimenting with new forms and practices that move beyond the stage. The evening will feature a brief introduction to the book and a conversation with featured artist David Levine.

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Drinking Brecht is a way of sharing research into Sister Sylvester’s newest piece, Brecht Forensics, by creating cocktails out of the DNA of former Berliner Ensemble members.

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Chameleon is a multimedia performance project that examines the shapeshifting, illegible, and fugitive realities of Black people within the American context. Using complexity theory combined with live feed and augmented reality as choreographic devices, this work explores how communities record and affirm their existence through collaboration and protest.

Studio Visits are evening-length hybrid performance events, offering audiences a multi-angled view of the featured artist and their craft. Each Studio Visit includes an introduction by the artist, a presentation of new work-in-process, a critical response essay by a guest artist, and a Q&A. The guest artist for this Studio Visit is Rizvana Bradley.

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A duet about what happens in liminal spaces and states, where and when things could go in any number of directions and you’re not quite sure which one is right. Also about what happens in hotel rooms, elevators, car rides, ATM lines, etc., temporary places that are yours to fully occupy. Also about ASMR recordings.

Studio Visits are evening-length hybrid performance events, offering audiences a multi-angled view of the featured artist and their craft. Each Studio Visit includes an introduction by the artist, a presentation of new work-in-process, a critical response essay by a guest artist, and a Q&A. The guest artist for this Studio Visit is Jane Comfort.

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The 2018 FRANKY AWARD goes to Daniel Alexander Jones! Come celebrate with us at The Liberty NYC!

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At the forefront of contemporary theatre, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center’s annual PRELUDE Festival provides audiences with the opportunity to preview and discuss the upcoming body of work from New York City’s downtown theatre and performance communities. Using archival footage and interviews with artists, scholars, and audience members from PRELUDE 2016 and PRELUDE 2017, this documentary tells the story of this unique gathering of creative minds. Join narrator and festival founder Frank Hentschker in discovering all the different ways we define the performative phenomena known as PRELUDE.

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