Triple Bill: The Frightening Door, Clearly or Darkly, and Imagined Mishaps
August 6th at 3pm
The Frightening Door Description:
Victoria Provost - playwright
Katie Devin Orenstein - director
The Frightening Door is the record of a resonance and a friendship between two lives, one of which ends. This play shares all the words between the playwright Victoria Provost and her friend in the last year of his life, as they candidly discuss mental illness and the struggle to stay connected in the drifting currents of adult life. The play flows between their texts, the writer's present thoughts, music, and dialogue.
CW: Mental illness, depression, death, suicide, grief
Clearly or Darkly Description:
Leslie Bush - Concept, performance, set, sound, and video design
Clearly or Darkly is an process-performance-project that integrates video projection, and (occasionally) interactive technology with improvisational dance practices. The flexibly structured piece examines contemporary notions of identity by extending embodied presence through physical and digital space. Ever changing and distinct in each presentation, certain elements of Clearly or Darkly have remained central to the work since its inception in 2019. A solo dancer enters into a duet with herself, in and in-between physical and virtual space. Blurring the boundaries of her body, she moves through a feedback loop of witnessing, reacting to, and responding to different versions of herself. Clearly or Darkly first premiered in February 2020 at the Whole Shebang in Philadelphia PA.
CW: Strobe or flashing lights
Imagined Mishaps:
Aparna Shankar - dancer
Sri Thina Subramaniam - choreographer
An ex turns up at your door, years after your relationship ended in disaster. You have to wonder, how?! And more importantly, why?! Rational explanations elude you, so you resort to imaginary tall tales. Were they blinded by the moonlight and stumbled and fell precisely on your doorstep? Yes, definitely that's what happened. Do you entertain their company? Or do you turn them away? The movement vocabulary of bharatanatyam will be used to explore this story.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.