| Spring 2018 Season at Abrons Arts Center | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:00 am EST 12/19/17 | |
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| ABRONS ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES SPRING 2018 SEASON Line Up of Boundary-Pushing Theater, Dance, Music, Performance and Visual Art Includes 16 Premieres On February 12, 1915, the Abrons Arts Center’s Henry Street Settlement Playhouse opened its doors on the Lower East Side. Since that day, it has remained a vital cultural resource, providing audiences with artistically bold work while offering artists opportunities to dynamically grow. The OBIE Award-winning institution has drawn a diverse audience to its historic home at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side and has garnered a wealth of critical acclaim across artistic disciplines. The work Abrons presents reflects the social and political challenges of our times in ways that are programmatically integrated into broader conversations that affect New York City and beyond. Abrons Arts Center’s spring 2018 season, curated by Artistic Director Craig Peterson, celebrates the idea that a community is a place of intersecting ideas and action. Peterson believes that artists push society forward in ways that challenge our assumptions, politics and social welfare; that artists make room for voices that are too often silenced or sidelined. Peterson remarks, “For more than 100 years, Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement has been a home to experimental artists, radical ideas, and burgeoning social movements. Abrons is both a physical place — with three theaters, galleries, and classrooms — and also a space that makes room for imagination, free expression, and diverging opinions. Come to Abrons to explore, laugh and engage. You are welcome here.” The lineup, comprised entirely of premieres, includes: Six Groundbreaking Theatrical Works In Pollock, written by Fabrice Melquiot and directed by Paul Desveaux, the beautifully tragic relationship of infamous artists Jackson Pollock (Jim Fletcher) and Lee Krasner (Birgit Huppuch) is rendered on stage. (February 15–25) Writer and actor Modesto Flako Jimenez conjures his beloved borough in ¡Oye! For My Dear Brooklyn, a bilingual elegy, told through poems, projections, and music. (March 15–31) In The Wholehearted, from co-creators Deborah Stein and Suli Holum, spectators have a ringside seat for this “dazzling tour-de-force” (Los Angeles Times), a blood pumping revenge tragedy and intimate tribute to lost love. (March 16-April 1) In Aloha, Aloha or When I Was Queen, playwright and performer Eliza Bent uses the creation of a childhood home movie to lead audiences on a journey that grapples with personal history, legacy, and cultural appropriation. (April 4-21) Written by Kate Scelsa for Elevator Repair Service and directed by John Collins, Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf features veterans of the ensemble. In this irreverent parody of Edward Albee’s iconic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, no one is left unscathed by Martha's feminist ambitions. (June 1–24) Just minutes from Downtown Manhattan, Awesome Grotto from the Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble endeavors to serve all New Yorkers as a site for reflection on the spiritual potential of digital connectivity. (June 7-30) Four Visceral Dance Events The ninth annual American Realness festival. (January 9–16) Mariangela Lopez’s COLOSSAL is a series of choreographic inquiries that attempt to traverse the commonalities of memory. (May 2–5) Led by choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Alex Romania, KLUTZ is an exploration of destabilizing nonsense on the sick state of the American psyche. (May 9–12) Sis Minor, In Fall, from Niall Jones, stages an ongoing entanglement with the object of the body, hallucinatory presences, and the excess sustained in minor architectures. (May 31–June 3) A Mind-Expanding Music Event OpenICE focuses on sharing the most essential elements of ICE’s working process - creation, collaboration, and performance - with a wider audience, through free concert and activity programming. (February 10, April 14) Six Diverse and Innovative Gallery Exhibitions The New Minimalists explores the evolution of minimalism through the work of Abdolreza Aminlari, Niyeti Chadha, Noor Ali Chagani, Jordan Nassar, and Joseph Shetler. Curated by Sarah Burney. (January 27 – February 25) If Happy Little Bluebirds Fly features works from the 2017 Fire Island Artist Residency by LGTB identifying artists Elizabeth Insogna, Marta Lee, Rodolfo Marron III, Charan Singh, Vincent Tiley and Bryson Rand. (March 3 – April 8) Leap Century: Rutgers in New York, group exhibition showcases the culminating work of the MFA Class of 2018 at Mason Gross School of the Arts. (April 21 – May 11) Making Art From Many Perspectives brings to light works of art from students of all 33 schools Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 in District 1. (May 22–28) Works from Abrons’ AIRspace curatorial resident artists: Christopher Aque, Priyanka Dasgupta, Carl Hazlewood, Trokon Nagbe, Macon Reed, Gabriela Salazar, Patrice Renee Washington, and Chris Watts. Organized by Christian Camacho-Light and Alexis Wilkinson. (June 29 - August 5) Abrons Arts Center is located at 466 Grand Street, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Tickets are now on sale can be purchased by calling 212.352.3101 or visiting abronsartscenter.org. |
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