Frigid New York @ Horse Trade Presents The ESTROGENIUS FESTIVAL 2018

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade in association with Manhattan Theatre Source will present the 2018 EstroGenius Festival, the longest running festival celebrating the work of women and gender non-conforming artists in NYC. Begun in Manhattan Theatre Source in 2000 as a short-play festival, the festival has launched and supported hundreds of artists in its 18 years. 2017 was the festival's first time in its new home The Kraine Theatre on E. 4th St.

Currently at the helm of the festival are Melissa Riker and Maura Nguyen Donohue., the Short play series is produced by Vinnie Marano. Guest curators are John C. Robinson and Women in Motion's 2017/18 Commissioned Artists Joya Powell, Garnet Hendersen, Rebecca Lazier.

In concurrence with the inclusive values the festival was founded on, this executive team focuses on art generated, written, directed, choreographed, composed and performed by artists who expand the definition of a women's festival. The producers strive to create a full, empowering, festival dedicated to a community that hears, sees and celebrates women, gender non-conforming and non-binary artists in all of their dynamic diversity.

EstroGenius 2018 is presented by Manhattan Theatre Source, Frigid New York with one special night hosted by La Mama Experimental Theater

March 8-25 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). Tickets ($15 and 2 for $25) are available in advance at www.FRIGIDnewyork.info.

Variety

Panel and Opening concert

Duos of fascinating women in conversation about what drives them as activists and artists in the world.

3/8 @ 6 PM, 45 Min Panel 7 PM concert

Music & Stand Up:

An Intimate Evening of Issues Hosted by Tess Henry

Celebrate women's history month with special evening of FRIGID New Yorks favorite female musicians and comedians. In an extra March edition of "An Intimate Evening of Issues"! Join us for an evening under the stars as these preformers get intimate about their issues.

3/15 6 PM

Off The Wall; Into YOUR Mind

A Night of Mentalism and Art

Jessgo is a Toronto native who now is taking the New York art World by storm. Live Painter, Jess' has been commissioned for thousands of paintings and her bold pop culture-centric art hangs in the hottest museums, galleries and collections all over the world.

3/19 @ 8 PM and 9:45 PM

Burlesque Night:

Victoria Arakcheyeva aka Daddy Longlegs burlesque, Montana Rose with Go Go Gadget, Una Osato and Sister Selva of BRASS.

3/22 @ 8:30 PM 60 Min

Powerful Voices

Some of the strongest female singer songwriters toiling in the streets of New York today. They have things to say and the voices to say them with, and you should listen.

3/16 @ 7:30 PM

Dance

In Development

An Open Dress Rehearsal of Nicoll + Nicoll's "Lonely Now (Reset)"

Aunt and Niece team Nicoll (J.) and Nicoll (L.K.) return to Estrogenius, after last year's "THIS TIME" with another duet built specifically for The Kraine's singular architecture. Catch a glimpse into their working process before the premiere.

3/9 @ 6 PM

Artists+Artists:

Esther Baker-Tarpaga, Brianna Taylor, Trina Mannino

Women in Motion Commissioned Artists Rebecca Lazier, Joya Powell, Garnet Henderson have curated this evening of women pushing edges and getting noticed.

From WiM, the organization built to support female choreographers, comes a full circle experience of support and celebration.

3/9 @ 8 PM, 3/10 @ 7 PM , 3/11 @ 1 PM 60 Min

Dance Splits:

Nicoll+Nicoll and Kirsten Flores-Davis

A shared program with aunt and niece team Jessica Nicoll and Laura K. Nicoll's "Lonely Now (Reset)" and Kirsten Flores-Davis "The Absence of Sweat and Psalm"

3/11 @ 3 PM and 3/12 @ 7 PM 60 Min

Carol Dilley & Janice Rosario

A shared program with Carol Dilley's "Emerge, Emerge, Emerge, Emerge, Emerge" and Janice Rosario & Dancers "The Making Of" and an excerpt of "Landscape"

3/13 @ 7 PM and 3/14 @ 7 PM 60 Min

Aretha Aoki & mayfield brooks

A shared program with Aretha Aoki's "Yellow Orchard" and mayfield brooks "Letters to Marsha"

3/17 @ 7 PM and 3/18 @ 3 PM 60 Min

Alexandra Amirov & Rina Espiritu

A shared program with Amirov Dance Theater's "The Coop" and "Black Cuts Body" and Rina Espiritu's "pagod na pagod na ko"

3/18 @ 1 PM and 3/21 @ 7 PM 70 Min

Michelle Amara Micca & Sifa Rachid

A shared program with Michelle Amara Micca's "Call Me Al" and Sifa Rachid/Movement Graffiti's "Tick Tock" Dance & Film

3/22 @ 7 PM and 3/25 @ 5:30 PM 70 Min

In Threes:

Troy Oglvie + Gabrielle Revlock

A shared program of Troy Olgvie's ""a girl"" choreographed by Roy Assaf, Gabrielle Revlock. this evening is co-curated by Melissa Riker and John C. Robinson.

3/25 @ 4 PM and 3/24 @ 7 PM 60 Min

Jitterbug and the Aftermath:

Donna Costello and Jenny Sargent

3/12 @ 8:30PM and 3/13 @ 8:30 PM 55 Min

Dance Church

By Kate Wallich Dance Church is an all abilities movement class that offers a fun, nonexclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for everyone who wants to move their body. All levels, abilities, body types, identities and genders.

No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite

at DOWNTOWN ARTS

3/18 @ 10:30 AM

Movement of the People at La Mama Downstairs:

LA MAMA hosts for One Night Only ESTROGENIUS produced by Manhattan Theatre Source and Frigid NYC Veiled Reflections by Movement of the People Dance Company The collaborative choreography of Veiled Reflections explores the secrets people hold and carry. It investigates how secrets shape the ways we move through our lives, view ourselves and each other. Experience how secrets can be transformed from what keeps us separate into what keeps us connected. Witness a dynamic multimedia dialogue between movement, live musicians, and contributors who have dared to share their secrets through embodied practice and writing. Original choreography, Her Veiled Reflections, conceived as a 2012-2013 Artist-in- Residence at The Performance Project @ University Settlement.

Join the movement and find release through MOPDC's Veiled Reflections Workshop and Sharing. Let loose your inner dancer. Investigate how the secrets we keep shape the ways we feel in our bodies and the ways we move through our lives. The workshop is for all movers, no dance experience necessary. Connect with the power that comes from collectively and creatively sharing our truths. Participants are welcome to join MOPDC on stage in a sharing of the Veiled Reflections choreography! Come out and shed some ish.

At La Mama

3/20 @ 7 PM

In Development:

MICCA

Open Rehearsal of Michelle Amara Micca's "Call Me Al"

3/23 @ 6 PM

Theater

Tentacles

Voyage Theater Company

By Tessa Flannery with Ian Prince

A feminist exploration of Tentacle Erotica, 'Tentacles' squirms around consent, fantasy, and female sexuality - through the lens of one slimy genre of pornography.

3/10 @ 8:30 PM and 3/15 @ 9 PM

Short Play Series

Anonymous by Sandra A. Daley-Sharif; BONA FIDE, by Nina Mansfield; THE BUSINESS OF LOVE, by Kristina Leath-Malin

3/14, 3/17, 3/21 and 3/24 @ 8:30 PM

In Development:

Amy Surratt & Tosha Rachelle Taylor, co-writers of "Amy Surrat's First and Last Show" at La MaMa, cross the street to share the early stages of a new work. Drawing from CRYPTOQUEER Morman frontman of the Killers, Brandon Flowers, as a focalizer to explore masculinity, performative gender, the tension between religious upbringing, lesbian feminist ideals and their relationship this promises to be another "powerful brew of life, loss and learnin' for us to guzzle."

3/16 @ 6 PM

Privilege Walk

Zhen Heinemann

Privilege Walks with Z.S.H

Wandering public spaces safely with (un)questionable access - various east village locations, NYC. Ending at the Kraine Theater

3/24 @ 5:30 PM, 3/25 @ 2:30 PM

NY Madness

Madness: is a raw and unpredictable show of short plays by an ensemble of playwrights presented fully staged with scripts in hand. Each night has a Theme, which is given out a week before the event. It is a snapshot of where we are politically, culturally, and artistically. A Madness is a forum for all writers to explore the boundaries of modern theater.

3/25 @ 8 PM