Dixon Place Presents A La Lucha Arts Group Production: PORNING THE PLANET 10/14
By: Ashlee Latimer Oct. 12, 2016
1st installment of a sextrilogy. Butoh dance meets narrative text – A multi-media performance
Written/Performed by Raquel Almazan
Associate Produced by Halle Morse
Porning the Planet challenges our notion of how pornography has altered our social communication. Based on five years of real life interviews with adult stars, Raquel Almazan returns to Dixon Place October 14th for a one-night-only performance of her solo show. A dark comedy developed in collaboration with Penny Arcade, this electric one hour journey melds Japanese Butoh dance and narrative performance through a multimedia experience to explore how our virtual world interacts with our "real world."
ABOUT THE SHOW
Almazan portrays Sensora, chosen by NASA for the making of the film Porning the Planet. Sensora attempts to answer her multiple personality disorder through the building of a porn persona. On her way to meet Hugh Hefner, Sensora's journey follows her from glam porn star to snuff assassinated President, to finally as a refugee in outer space, launching into the galaxy. Sensora's metamorphosis challenges our notion of how pornography has altered our methods of communication, connection and our own consciousness, to create a "De-Sensitized Nation".
POST SHOW DISCUSSION: The Pornography of Politics- A View on the Current Presidential Election (The panel of 7 includes Adult Stars, Political Analysts, Theater Scholars, and more)
TICKETING INFORMATION
Purchase online at: TinyURL.com/PorningAtDix via Ovation Tix TinyURL.com/PorningDixTix
$15 general, $12 students + seniors, $18 at the door ($10 group rate tickets available)
The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during and after the show. Proceeds directly support Dixon Place's artists and mission.
PERFORMANCE DATE
One night only performance: Oct. 14th @ 10pm at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street New York, NY 10002)
Creative Team
Raquel Almazan - Writer/Performer/Director
Vangeline- Butoh Choreography
Charlotte Brathwaite - Additional Direction
Brittany Andrews - Adult Star Consultant
Emily Venezia - Stage Manager
Denise Peterson Huza - Producing and Marketing Coordinator
Daniela Thome - Production Coordinator
Sandra Powers - Multi-media
Jeffrey Michael & Sindy Butz - Costume/Installation
Margherita Tisato - Makeup
Adam Mansell - Sound Design
Megan McKay - Sound Technician
Penny Arcade (Development) www.pennyarcade.tv
Legend, icon, wild-hearted demoness bad-girl bitch. It is impossible to describe the juggernaut that is Penny Arcade without entering the world of hyperbole that she not only inhabits but also personifies.
VANGELINE (Choreographer) www.vangeline.com
Vangeline is a Butoh artist from France and the Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater, a Dance Company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century. Joyce SoHo, White Wave, HERE Arts Center, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122 Performance Space.
BRITTANY ANDREWS (Consultant) www.brittanyandrews.com
Named one of the Top Three Porn Stars by "Entertainment Tonight" & Cosmopolitan. Both from porn and from her stints on "The Howard Stern Show", both radio & on the E! Channel. At PLAYBOY Channel as she has hosted over 10 of their best shows.
Artists' Statement
This piece is part of the anti "Female Chauvinist Pigs" movement, influenced by the book with the same title by Ariel Levy and the books of scholar Jane Caputi. For fifteen years I've worked with marginalized women + girls (including sex workers) in schools, prisons, centers: demanding a political process of research, exchange and public art presentations. I am now armed in facing the ultimate challenge of embracing /unearthing pornography in all its forms.
Photo credits: Sandra Powers
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