Date: Thursday, April 14th at 7:30 PM
Venue: Dixon Place 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY 100002 (between Rivington & Delancey)
Admission: $17/advance & $20/door. Students/Seniors: $15/advance & $18/door Tickets
In recent years discomfort, unfamiliarity, unprecedented events have become our new normal and changed, shook, transformed our lives as we never imagined was possible. The heart of this show is rooted within that deep sense of discomfort, the pleasure and pain to address issues, crises that challenge us, motivate us, move us to grow, understand, empathize, and ultimately heal and bring us together.
Bookmarks of Discomfort is a new Dixon Place program that brings together BIPOC and Queer transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary artists, writers, poets, designers, and social scientists who address the idea of discomfort through visual, aural, physical, and textual monographs. This program is conceived and curated by Indian-born Brooklyn-based film-video artist, curator, and writer Priyanka Das.
The first event in the series will take place on Thursday, April 14, 2022, at 7:30 pm. The runtime is approximately 70 minutes, followed by an artist talkback.
Participating Artists: Edward Morgan Ballet, Vivian Ostrovsky, Hector Canonge, Priyanka Das, Flex Dance Program (see below for performance information.)
The Edward Morgan Ballet presents Ballet on the Mars explores the idea of integration through alienation. Maybe the only way to look inside is to look outside of ourselves.
Vivian Ostrovsky presents Hiatus: a film about the reclusive, introspective Ukrainian-Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920-1977). Vivian draws a connection between Clarice and herself through this common feeling of ‘in-betweenness’ or ‘hiatus’.
Hector Canonge presents I BELONG HERE AS MUCH AS YOU DO: a body performance that addresses the psychological and physiological discomfort that migrants face around the world. Through corporal movement, choreographed gestures, and everyday objects, this performance references makes the challenges, adjustments, and adaptations people endure when arriving in a new country or returning to their places of origin.
Priyanka Das presents I Tried to Write a Love Letter with My Body: a personal letter written in the “feminine voices”, desires, struggles, conflicts, and assertive in its senses, feelings, and emotions permeates our daily existence.
Flex Dance Program presents Medusa’s Path: this alternative dance project tells the story of the goddess Medusa. The story reveals itself in three interludes: jealousy, betrayal, and love.
About the curator:
Priyanka Das was born in India and is currently living and working in New York City. She is a transdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer, and curator. Often her subject matters embody transnationalism, cultural cosmopolitanism, diasporic experience, and hybrid racial, ethnic, social queer experiences. Her works aim to ignite thoughts, feelings, emotions that delve deep into the essence of “otherness” mediated by somatic, psychic, and cerebral intimate lived experiences and collective moments, memory, and imagination. Her works have traveled all over the world, screening over 100 film festivals, shown at Cannes, Clermont Ferrand, Queens Museum, Filmmakers Coop NY, and others. Currently, she is curating for Bookmarks of Discomfort, a series of transdisciplinary shows by BIPOC and Queer artists in New York City.
About Dixon Place:
A bastion for visionary artists since 1986, Dixon Place is a non-profit institution dedicated to the development and presentation of original works in performing, literary, and visual art. With an abiding commitment to racial and gender equity, diversity is a mandate and artist remuneration a priority. In a professional, compassionate environment, artists are inspired and encouraged to take risks, generate new ideas, and execute new practices. Providing comprehensive, inclusive opportunities for artists and endowing audiences with accessible, enriching experiences, Dixon Place has successfully supported creative achievement for 36 years, contributing significantly to NYC’s cultural landscape.
The Dixon Place cocktail lounge is open before and after events. Proceeds from the bar directly support DP’s artists and mission.
COVID-19 Guidelines:
Patrons are required to wear a mask in the theatre, removing only briefly to sip from a drink.
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