Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: The Mystic Shimmer at Bohemian National Hall

A hallucination, a dream, a life, a performance: conjectures and reflections on temporal efforts and their significance. What holds? What resists the bite of time? An interdisciplinary performance examining human ambition, embodied presence, and existential meaning.

The Mystic Shimmer (2023), Slovakia/US. Presented by: Pavel Zustiak, Palissimo Company. Concept, direction, choreography, costume design: Pavel Zustiak. Performed by: Christine Bonansea, Wendell Gray II, Emma Judkins, Doug LeCours. Original music, sound design: Christian Frederickson. Lighting design: Masha Tsimring. Dramaturgical advice: Keith Skretch.

Running time: 60 min.

The performance is followed by a talkback.

Free and open to the public. Suggested donation $10. Seats are limited, on first-come, first-served basis. Online registration through Eventbrite is required.

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The performance is produced by Palissimo Company, New York, with support of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Movement Research, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Bogliasco Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Council for the Arts at MIT.

The 2023 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: Anew is organized by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, GOH Productions, Trap Door Theatre, Centre of Jewish Culture ŠTETL, Jan Mocek, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Palissimo Company, and Romanian Cultural Institute.

The program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague, and Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.