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| Exponential Festival at The Brick and Brick Aux! | |
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| THE BRICK IS PROUD TO ONCE AGAIN HOST THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL, JANUARY 4 - FEBRUARY 8 AT THE BRICK THEATER AND BRICK AUX IN BROOKLYN, NY. Brooklyn, NY (12/20/22) The Exponential Festival is back at The Brick for its eighth season! This year The Brick is proud to present Exponential Festival productions at The Brick Theater and, for the first time, Brick Aux. Onstage at The Brick Theater - 579 Metropolitan Ave THE COMPLAINT SOCIETY by Barnett Cohen January 4-7 2023 Tin Iso and the Dawn by Tristan Allen January 10-14, 2022 God and All Her Children by Anike Sonuga January 15, 2022 The Ben Shapiro Project by Ella Davidson and Our bodies like dams Sarah Finn January 16-21, 2022 ADMIN REVEAL by Miss Lady Salad January 27-28, 2022 On Set with Theda Bara by Joey Merlo February 1-8, 2023 at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave (untitled human composting play) by Devon Wade Granmo January 19-21, 2022 Circus Trick by Addie Ulrey and Presentation on colonialism by Joey Weiss January 26-29, 2022 Check out the full lineup at theexponentialfestival.org Onstage at The Brick Theater THE COMPLAINT SOCIETY The Exponential Festival and The Brick present THE COMPLAINT SOCIETY by Barnett Cohen January 4-7 2023 Contextualized by our era of infinite emergency, The Complaint Society documents and synthesizes a pixelated present of ruined meaning, anxious forces, neurotic tendencies, and looping violence. A range of urgencies–climate grief, state-sanctioned force, reparative justice, reproductive rights, systems of surveillance, the growing fascist theocracy in the US, and the memeification of political mood–appear and reappear in the performance as sirens, propositions for time travel, and calls to action. Created by Barnett Cohen with performances by Briana Archer, Deja Bowen, Lena Engelstein & Rachel Rivera Styling by JenniLee featuring looks by A.Potts & Doc Martens Stage Management by Cliff Hoitt-Lange Documentation & Image credits by Suz Murray Sadler & jb Movement Direction by Lena Engelstein Lighting Design by Sarai Frazier Text Design by Tanya Rubbak Cast in monochromatic lighting on an empty stage, four performers follow a text-based poetic score as they offer thought forms to an audience in the round. Over the course of this hour-long piece, the performers deliver fast-paced and electrifying combinations of monologues, asides, and soliloquies interspersed with highly-stylized choreographed movement. The Complaint Society is as much a dialogue with crisis as it is dialectic with the world of language at large in which we are all immersed. Tickets Available The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Tin Iso and the Dawn by Tristan Allen January 10-14, 2022 Tin Iso and the Dawn is shadow puppet symphony performed alongside an original, full length album. The project shares the origins of an imaginary world created to give age-old magic life through puppetry and music. Tristan Allen : Creator, Composer, Puppeteer Tin Iso and the Dawn is operated by a solo puppeteer, composed and performed to explore the hidden turnings of a world at its genesis. Lights dim to black as a delicate melody slips into abstraction. Iso awakens to a bang as Tin crashes through the sky forming a hole above, light pours through and they meet. Their journey through shadow brings forth a rising sun and the beginning of life. Innovative puppetry, moving light, and symphonic structure collide in examining the universal longing to make sense of loss and what's beyond. Tin Iso and the Dawn is made possible with the support of Object Movement Puppetry and the Jim Henson Foundation. Featuring opening sets by special guests: 1/10 Preston Wollner : Spooky puppetry of a ghost filled childhood home 1/11 Cole Haden : Sound collage and ambient dreamscapes equal parts euphoric and horrific 1/12 Tiresias : Ritual meditation and song cycle on why we voyage 1/13 Skeleton Zoo : Serene ambient music for live electronics and cello 1/14 (both 2pm+8pm) Time Wharp : Swirling compositions for guitar, keys, and live electronics Tickets Available The Exponential Festival and The Brick present God and All Her Children by Anike Sonuga January 15, 2022 The summer before their senior year of high school, two boys come to God's porch to process life and the impending future. God played by Floria Foote Gigi played by Gabriel Generally D played by Jonathan Lorenzo Price writer director & producer Anike Sonuga associate producer Kyla Jeanne It's August. The summer before senior year. It's too hot to do anything and too close to the beginning of school to go anywhere else, so D and Gigi spend their days hanging out with God, a woman who has lived in their neighborhood so long that no one knew what else to call her. D and Gigi have been friends for years, but when Gigi receives an offer to play football at a school across the country, disagreement arises. D and Gigi come to God's porch to process life and discuss their experiences with religion, family, and community. TW: mentions of suicide Tickets Available Split Bill The Ben Shapiro Project & Our bodies like dams The Exponential Festival and The Brick present The Ben Shapiro Project by Ella Davidson and Our bodies like dams Sarah Finn January 16-21, 2022 The Ben Shapiro Project Ella wants to save America and herself, so Ella becomes Ben Shapiro. Then Ella confronts Ben Shapiro. America can't be saved, but can Ella be saved Ella Davidson – Writer, Director, Performer Paul Levine – Codirector Tiana Richards – Collaborator and Social Media Manager Anuka Sethi – Producer Max Mooney – Stage Manager Jordan Bernstein – Sound Designer Jason Goodwin – Set and Costume Designer Jordan Powell – Lighting Designer Ella Davidson, a young black socialist, embodies Ben Shapiro, right wing political pundit in a performance piece in which she envisions a world without him. When that isn't enough for her to feel like she's made a difference in some way, she concocts a plan to meet Ben in person and confront him. She meets and debates Ben, hoping to change him for the better through the power of human connection but he remains unmoved. Can Ella help save America and can she even help save herself Our bodies like dams Set in a handmade, flooding city, this part love-story, part eco-fantasy, imagines a woman's unexpected metamorphosis in the face of romantic and coastal decay. Creator/Director: Sarah Finn Director of Photography & Editor: Xuan Liu Set Designer & Co-Puppet Builder: Karen Loewy-Movilla Sound Designer: Sid Diamond Dancers/Puppet models: Evan Ray Suzuki and Tam Nguyen Our bodies like dams is a short film made with animation, live-puppetry, miniature sets, and wearable sculpture, to follow a surrealistic narrative of a couple embracing as their apartment floods entirely. A seemingly straight apocalyptic love story, it gradually unfolds into a queer, post-human fantasy. A love letter to Brooklyn's disappearing shorelines, audience members are invited to join for the film's premiere, followed by an interactive installation of the film's sets, puppets, sculpture and process. Special Thanks: Fresh Ground Pepper's BRB Residency Tickets Available ADMIN REVEAL The Exponential Festival and The Brick present ADMIN REVEAL by Miss Lady Salad January 27 & 28, 2022 Join memestress and hyper-niche internet microcelebrity Miss Lady Salad (Shawn Escarciga) for ADMIN REVEAL, a celebration of internet culture and the artists and thinkers who keep it alive. Miss Lady Salad sits down with a special group of meme makers, content creators, and digital darlings to chat about the philosophy and inspiration behind their online personas, while giving space to share their live performance and artistic practices. ADMIN REVEAL is a hybrid evening of IRL conversation and performance with some of the internet's trashiest, classiest, and most inspired URL accounts. Created and performed by Miss Lady Salad ADMIN REVEAL - two casual evenings with a rotating cast of internet and IRL artists, musicians, comedians and writers, January 27th and 28th at The Brick. Tickets Available On Set with Theda Bara The Exponential Festival and The Brick present On Set with Theda Bara by Joey Merlo February 1-8, 2023 In this hallucination of a one-person show, a genderqueer teen who goes missing and their gay detective father come face-to-face with the supernatural and consciousness-devouring Theda Bara, the vamp and silent film star of the 1920's. Starring David Greenspan Written by Joey Merlo Directed by Jack Serio On Set with Theda Bara is a gothic coming-of-age story, a campy melodrama about identity-consumption and the horror of not knowing who you are. Tickets Available At Brick Aux (untitled human composting play) The Exponential Festival and The Brick present (untitled human composting play) by Devon Wade Granmo January 19-21, 2022 at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave A silly one person show about serious things that is also a fungal network puppet show with accordion songs. Written and Performed by Devon Wade Granmo Designed by Stephen Bron A road trip with a Uhaul-load of human compost. A conversation with a fungal network that is one of the oldest and largest living organisms on Earth. Gather round the campfire for a silly one person show about serious things. With puppets and accordions songs. Tickets Available Split Bill Circus Trick & Presentation on colonialism The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Circus Trick by Addie Ulrey and Presentation on colonialism by Joey Weiss January 26-29, 2022 at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave Circus Trick Clown is a professional. They have always taken pride in giving the audience what they came for: a good, old fashioned trick. But in our digital world of ready-made delights, what counts as a trick What does the circus have to offer that you can't get fasterbrightercheaper somewhere else Written by Addie Ulrey / Directed by Lauren Zeftel Circus Trick is the story of a clown who stages a rebellion against the commodification of entertainment in an on-demand world, and in doing so, explores some of the stranger possible benefits of live performance. """ Presentation on colonialism Presentation on colonialism is a project to locate the concept of colonialism in deep time. Zoology, genetics and pictures will be utilized – covering a period of approximately 1.3 million years. Written by Joey Weiss and developed by Joey Weiss and Yuki Kawahisa This presentation locates colonialism in times and places outside of colonialism's history, from our current moment, to before humans were on earth. Tickets Available THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL JANUARY'S BROOKLYN-BASED THEATRE FESTIVAL ~ A pleasure, a mess, a thrill, and a dream. ~ Exponential is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. theexponentialfestival.org The Brick | 579 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY| bricktheater.com |
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