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2025 State of Play Festival
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Black Benatar – Meet Black Benatar
2025 State of Play Festival
Enjoy the stage illusion and storytelling magic of Black Benatar, a "puppet show" from the inside out. Snuggle up for a whimsical and hilarious journey through the motherhood. Meet the eclectic neighbors including the Fybroid family, Cystina the squatter, and the twins Ova and Reese, in this playful exploration of identity, humor, and community.
2025 State of Play Festival: Wanjiru Kamuyu | WKcollective, a dance company – An Immigrant’s Story
2025 State of Play Festival
As a “foreigner”, “(im)migrant”, “othered body” one is confronted with the pertinent need to re-define home and re-establish one’s place within a new societal framework. An Immigrant's Story explores the complexity of the “othered” in relationship to re-creating a sense of belonging. It examines our mobility and access inclusive of the perceptions and reception of […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Wanjiru Kamuyu | WKcollective, a dance company – An Immigrant’s Story
2025 State of Play Festival
As a “foreigner”, “(im)migrant”, “othered body” one is confronted with the pertinent need to re-define home and re-establish one’s place within a new societal framework. An Immigrant's Story explores the complexity of the “othered” in relationship to re-creating a sense of belonging. It examines our mobility and access inclusive of the perceptions and reception of […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Molly Rose-Williams – CRUSH
2025 State of Play Festival
Part love letter, part absurdist caper, and part cultural satire, CRUSH is a solo dance-comedy show for anyone who's ever had a crush. Come relive the most agonizingly-heartbreakingly-ecstatically-disorienting moments of your life. Molly Rose-Williams (she/they) is a performer, writer, audio producer, and educator. Her work melds dance, physical theater, spoken word, and circus, and […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Lisa Fagan + Lena Engelstein: Deepe Darknesse
2025 State of Play Festival
Deepe Darknesse is a physically maximal, experimental dance-theater work by choreographers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein. In a transmogrification regiment of their own design, they push past their physical limits and press the edges of the playing space in a frenetic, oddball, unrelentingly theatrical Rube Goldberg machine of “curiositas improspera” or unhappy curiosity. The attempt […]
2025 State of Play Festival: Lisa Fagan + Lena Engelstein: Deepe Darknesse
2025 State of Play Festival
Deepe Darknesse is a physically maximal, experimental dance-theater work by choreographers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein. In a transmogrification regiment of their own design, they push past their physical limits and press the edges of the playing space in a frenetic, oddball, unrelentingly theatrical Rube Goldberg machine of “curiositas improspera” or unhappy curiosity. The attempt […]
Black Benatar – Meet Black Benatar
2025 State of Play Festival
Enjoy the stage illusion and storytelling magic of Black Benatar, a "puppet show" from the inside out. Snuggle up for a whimsical and hilarious journey through the motherhood. Meet the eclectic neighbors including the Fybroid family, Cystina the squatter, and the twins Ova and Reese, in this playful exploration of identity, humor, and community.
2025 State of Play Festival: Molly Rose-Williams – CRUSH
2025 State of Play Festival
Part love letter, part absurdist caper, and part cultural satire, CRUSH is a solo dance-comedy show for anyone who's ever had a crush. Come relive the most agonizingly-heartbreakingly-ecstatically-disorienting moments of your life. Molly Rose-Williams (she/they) is a performer, writer, audio producer, and educator. Her work melds dance, physical theater, spoken word, and circus, and […]