Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble's THE ART OF LUV (PART 5): SWIPE RIGHT / ROKE CUPID Continues at The Bushwick Starr

The Bushwick Starr presents: The Art of Luv (Part 5): Swipe Right ROKÉ Cupid by Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, now through June 10, playing Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8pm at The Bushwick Starr theater (207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wyckoff]).

Directions: Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right. For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS. Tickets are $20 starting 4/25 at www.thebushwickstarr.org.

Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble [ROKE] is a musical priesthood that explores the metaphysics and mythologies of love, desire, and connectivity in the the VHS and Internet Ages. Formed by artists Tei Blow and Sean McElroy, ROKE generates contemporary ritual out of found media, synthesizing strategies of video, meme, party, opera, theater, social practice, and installation.

ROKE has performed rituals in New York at The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, Guggenheim Museum, Under the Radar's Incoming! Series, Gibney Dance Center, Kate Werble Gallery, Special Effects Festival at Participant Inc., Prelude Festival, AUNTS Arts@Renaissance, and JACK, and in Philadelphia at FringeArts. ROKE received a 2016 Creative Capital award for The Art of Luv series, and has been awarded a Franklin Furnace Fund grant (2013) and a BAX Space Grant (2014). They were part of The Public Theater's Devised Theater Working Group and PS122's RAMP residency program. They spent the summer of 2014 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and were 2015 CUNY Hunter Artists-in-Residence in ceramics.

The Bushwick Starr is an Obie Award winning non profit theater that presents an annual Season of new performance work. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving theatrical venue, a vital neighborhood arts center, and a destination for exciting and engaging performance. We provide a springboard for emerging professional artists to make career-defining leaps, and we are a sanctuary where established performance companies come to experiment and innovate. Our past Seasons have included new work from groundbreaking artists such as The Mad Ones, Clare Barron, Dave Malloy, The Debate Society, the TEAM, and Half Straddle.