THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

"Wikipedia Brown and the Accidental Occidental"

by Zebra Crossing

Written and Directed by Chloë Bass and Drayton Hiers

Things are looking bad for The City. With boxes of consumer goods going missing from Little Shanghai, the local economy is on the verge of collapse. To add to the panic, sightings of a mysterious figure are reported in back alleys and dens of iniquity. Could this be the legendary ancient Chinese Mariner, or is it just a cover for an elaborate heist? Wiki and SK are on the case, but now that they're running competing agencies, it looks like neither of them is the man for the job. Who will save The City from its inevitable decay?

Zebra Crossing returns with the second thrilling installment of its popular Wikipedia Brown series: The Case of the Accidental Occidental.

Zebra Crossing is a rock band-dance company masquerading as a theatre group. Formed accidentally by Chloë Bass and Drayton Hiers to meet a deadline for a festival they didn't get in to, they've gone on to become world-famous in North Brooklyn. With their signature mixture of absurdist humor and keen social observation, they make cutting edge theatre shows and wonderful dinner guests.

Featuring: Jennifer Lauren Brown, Tarik Davis, Meredith Dillard, Billy Fenderson, Ben Friessen, Joy Gabriel, Troy Greenwood, Jessica Krueger, Jane Montosi, Matt Sadewitz

Original Music by Greg Heffernan
Fight Choreography by Christian Chan
Dance Choreography by Michele Torino
Lighting Design by Hajera Dehqanzada
Stage Manged by Lee Mandell

www.zebraxing.org

For tickets: https://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=WIK0

IMPORTANT: VENUE CHANGE! THIS EVENT IS BEING RELOCATED AROUND THE CORNER TO:

THE MANHATTAN CHILDREN'S THEATER
52 WHITE STREET

The Raw and the Cooked is a monthly show quickly establishing itself as a cultural meeting ground for improvisers from every discipline. An idea exchange forum for musicians, dancers and media artists alike, The Raw and the Cooked invites new performers each month to participate in spontaneous collaboration and performance art. This July 5th The Raw and the Cooked features improvisers aged 16 to 30 in a special intergenerational event. The evening will include two floors of installations and live performances by over a dozen improvisers of different ages. Come see live music, dance, video and celebrate art-making across age barriers.

Contributing participants will include former students of Raw and the Cooked curator Tatyana Tenenbaum (performing improvised dance, music and performance art); Stefan Weiner, Jesse Ross-Silverman, Marisol Duplisea, Hannah Krauth, Bryan Daly, Travis Weitzman, Dan Bun, and Rose Wisotsky; with Josh Nugent (live interactive video art), Andy Vernon-Jones (photography) and members of the South Brooklyn Community High School.

7:00-7:30pm - Media Installations and Refreshments
7:30-9:00pm - Live Performance

http://therawandthecookedshow.blogspot.com

The Murder Cabaret:
"Death's a Cabaret"

Ever feel dissatisfied with your lover? Ever been jilted by the object of your desire? Ever feel burdened by your spouse and children and had terrible fantasies involving rat poison, arsenic, or perhaps a good old-fashioned blunt object?

Well then please join us for an evening of multimedia murder, madness and mayhem.

Multiple musicians, performance, visual and multimedia artists weave various historical American and English Murder Ballads into a pastiche of a cabaret show involving live music, dance, video, animation and even a devilish puppet show!

Performance will include new sound, image, and puppet work, and more than a few surprises from Joseph Keckler, Jacob Richman, Kirsten Volness, Shauna Steele, Tim Szetela, Peter Bussigel and puppet troop An Exciting Event.

http://www.jacob-richman.com/murdercabaret

"Following my artistic credo: Art Is Not Life, But Life Is Art; I am realizing several lifelong art projects. One of them is Shaving Performance: I shave my head on the same date, every 4 years. I don't cut hair in between, harvesting it for Braid Collection "My Life". (Each braid is a material equivalent for a certain time period). There are 5 braids in the current collection, cut correspondingly in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. The 6th braid is to be cut on August 31st this year."

This work is devoted to all women who lost their hair against their will.

-Irina Danilova