THE USHER Performance

Contains mature language and strobe effects.

The perfect attendant. The perfect assistant. The perfect usher. This robot servant will answer your questions and guide you to your destination. It will help you find your seat, as well as entertain you as you wait for shows to begin. After all, that’s its job.

A performance art piece that merges reality and the digital in an improvisational, audience interaction-based experience, this work questions how reliant we have become on technology to aid us in and distract us from our monotonous daily lives.

Find The Usher ready to help all around the New Works Festival! Whether it likes it or not.

Project Lead

Fedor Aglyamov LOCATION

F. Loren Winship Building (moves throughout the building during the course of the festival)

Womanhood

Dance

A contemporary dance piece that elaborates on the highs and lows of being a woman. It features different characteristics and experiences to highlight the real-life duality of womanhood.

PROJECT LEAD

Payge Garcia

ZAZ: THE BIG EASY

Play

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME 10 minutes

PERFORMANCES

April 4 at 1:30 p.m.

April 6 at 9:30 p.m.

April 7 at 1:30 p.m.

Contains strong historic visual imagery and strobe effects.

Zaz: The Big Easy is a kinetic and sonic synthesis of African Diasporic Percussive Dance and Music exploring the realities of Hurricane Katrina as a physical storm and metaphor of storms humans experience when silenced, marginalized, and oppressed, yet still preserver through community, spirit, and traditions. This work focuses on bringing awareness to the realities of the worst natural disaster to hit North America, serves as a living archive of Black history through embodied storytelling and celebrates the resilience of those Ryan has spent the past ten+ years of his life knowing. This black cultural experience utilizes tap dance, stepping, body percussion, original music, audience participation, vocal arrangements, and digital media to create an immersive sensory performance shifting traditional audience viewing practices.

PROJECT LEAD

Ryan K. Johnson

LOCATION WIN 2.120 LOCATION

Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME 60 minutes

There will be a 20-minute talkback following the performance on April 4 at 4:00 p.m.

PERFORMANCES

April 4 at 4:00 p.m. (talkback to follow)

April 5 at 8:00 p.m.

April 7 at 1:00 p.m.