Reconnoiter Presents Aw Keats Keats Motherf#@kr, 9/2-9/4

Reconnoiter
Aw Keats, Keats Motherfucker! [To the Old World, Thank You for the Use of Your Body, Goodbye]
September 2 -4
All performances at 8pm with an additional 11pm performance on September 4th

In 1821, the Romantic poet John Keats died at the age of 25 in Rome. In 2000, the conceptual artist Jonathon Keats made his debut in San Francisco. Split into two parts, Aw Keats, Keats Motherfucker! imagines John's fever dreams and Jonathon's thoughts.

Aw Keats, Keats, Motherfucker! is a show about trial and error, as seen through the lives of John Keats, the 19th century poet and Jonathon Keats, the contemporary conceptual artist/philosopher. Focused on a pivotal moment in each of the men's lives-John Keats' death from tuberculosis at the age of 25 and Jonathon Keats' debut in 2000, when he sat in a chair and thought for 24 hours. AWKK tests the limits of imagination, endurance, and performance itself.

Ticketing info: General $18/Student $14
Purchase in advance at incubatorarts.org or by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101.
Cash only at the door.
Incubator Arts Project (inside St. Mark's Church) • 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Ave.)
L to First or Third Ave; R, W to Broadway/8th St.; 6 to Astor Place; N,Q, 4, 5 to Union Sq.

Reconnoiter is a New York-based collective of individuals working in various fields, producing work in theater, dance, and film. Founded in 2010, the company has created one full-length original show, Heads; one short, The One, The Only, Jan Terri; a longer conceptual piece Waiting Room; and various video and dance pieces. Coming up in 2011: La Maupin, based on Theophile Gautier's 1835 novel Mademoiselle de Maupin; and a video piece shot in Louisiana. An excerpt from La Maupin will be performed at Brave New Works on September 20th at The Wings Theater.

Stiven Luka is a director and writer, based in New York. With Reconnoiter, he's directed several original pieces, including: Heads; The One, The Only Jan Terri; and Waiting Room. He's also directed Ionesco's The Leader and Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. In addition to these theater works, Stiven has also directed several short films, including As Serious As My Life; Arcane Woman; and Dirt. He's currently working on his first full-length screenplay. BFA in Drama, NYU-TSOA.

About Incubator Arts Project
The Incubator Arts Project supports independent, experimental performing artists through a series of programs aimed at offering production opportunities and guidance with long-term growth and artistic sustainability. Its programs primarily support world premieres of original work and also include a concert series, work in progress opportunities and artist salons and roundtables.

 

The Incubator Arts Project grew out of the Incubator, a project of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. In 2010, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater announced that it would leave its permanent home, St. Mark's Church, and that the Incubator would take over the space and operate year-round.

Beginning in 1993, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, in addition to its primary support of the work of Richard Foreman, opened its doors to emerging, independent artists. Since 1993 the emerging artists program at the Ontological took many forms, including the Obie-winning Blueprint Series for emerging directors. In 2005, the OHT reorganized the programs under the name INCUBATOR, creating a series of linked programs to provide young theater artists with resources and support to develop process-oriented, original theatrical productions. By 2010, the program had quadrupled in size, involving a range of artists and increased support. The programs included the centerpiece Residency program for premieres, two annual music festivals, a regular concert series, a serial work-in-progress program called Short Form, and roundtables and salons aimed at keeping Incubator artists involved year-round. In May, 2010, the Incubator received an OBIE grant.

 

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