Graham Studio Theater Presents HOUSEGUEST Today

HOUSEGUEST is de novo's inaugural production: a mixed dance performance incorporating butoh and belly dance with live music and original composed music. It explores the tension between quotidian existence and other realities seen and unseen, invited and uninvited, real and imagined and explores themes of hibernation, transformation and awakening. It is about deep longing from below and the struggle to stay alive in hibernating sleep. We investigate these themes using a multi-layered, mixed-media approach.

RUNNING TIME: 70 minutes

Conceived by Ian Wen and Irina Kom and created by the ensemble.

With: Christian Barthod, Erin Holmes, Aurie Hsu, Lauren Jeanette, Steven Kemper, Irina Kom, Bob Lyness, Hanna Madbak, Hiram Pines, Lauren Marie Robbiani, Estefania Vaz Ferreira, and Ian Wen. We will also be performing with participants from the Hanac JVL Senior Center in Astoria, Queens! They include: Eileen A. Baker, Lydia Barcala, Jennie Criskos, Steven George, Alice Jaworsky, Selenia Martinez, and Angie Welby.

WHERE:

Graham Studio Theater

55 Bethune Street (west of Washington), 11th Floor

WHEN:

Friday, June 7 @ 8PM
Saturday, June 8 @ 8PM
Sunday, June 9 @ 8PM

To purchase tickets online, visit Brown Paper Tickets.

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