2019 EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL | JAN 10 – 26

RESISTANCE FANTASIES: STRATEGIES FOR MOVING TOWARD–AND AGAINST–

by stormy budwig

January 23-26 @ Various Times

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A series of collaboratively lead somatic experiments and a come-and-go-as-you-wish dance performance conceived of by stormy budwig. Over the course of these four days the theater space will become a site for gathering, witnessing, and moving together. We will fantasize, and strategize, embodied methods of resistance.

DANCE PERFORMANCES

A three hour long dance project performed and created by. We will encounter and frame notions, forms, and fantasies of resistance by moving through a series of collaboratively built scores throughout the evening. Come and go as you wish!

SERIES OF SOMATIC EXPERIMENTS / WORKSHOPS

PLAYING AS STRATEGY FOR RESISTANCE

workshop facilitated by Ann-Marie Gover

January 23 | 3 – 5pm

GET SLIDING SCALE TIX $5 – $20

In this workshop Ann-Marie Gover will facilitate a creative space for guided material generation. Gover asks that participants bring a piece of material you are working on to play with in the space. Gover will provide books, index cards, fabrics, tarot… Before sharing work and giving constructive feedback, we will meditate, move, write, draw, and play. All participants from all disciplines, from dancers to data analysts, are welcome!

COLLABORATIVE PRECARITY BODYHACKING

workshop facilitated by Elae & Cory Tamler

Session 1 | January 24 & 25 | 10 – 3pm

Session 2 | January 26 | 12:30 – 5:30pm

GET SLIDING SCALE TIX $5 – $20

A series of cross-disciplinary workshops addressing precarity’s trauma-resonant effects on mind and body programming. These intensive gatherings will employ individual and group work that includes writing, performance, movement, breath

work, mindfulness, and dialogue. We will make space for reading, ritual, and emergent documentation. No previous experience in any of these disciplines is necessary, and exercises will be adaptable to the needs and abilities of different bodies. Note: Please commit to both Thursday and Friday workshops as they will be built upon each other.

EMPATHETIC LANDSCAPES + COSMIC BODIES

workshop facilitated by Stephanie Acosta

January 24 | 3 – 5pm

GET SLIDING SCALE TIX $5 – $20

We work and talk, thru modes of translation, starting with a warm-up that includes sensory/meditation walks, writing, and vocal engagement participants are invited to move through specific approaches utilized in my teams score building, and movement research which also incorporates discursive research elements such as poetics, critical thinking, and performance studies. Thinking about how to engage interior curiosity, articulate the abstract and in the process engage in philosophical considerations of body, life, and planeness. Based on the continued research + performance development for the multi-platform project God Day God Damn.Folks are encouraged to arrive 15 minutes early to warm up and get settled.

PERFORMANCE PRACTICES

workshop facilitated by Commitment Experiment

January 26 | 10 – 12pm

GET SLIDING SCALE TIX $5 – $20

Commitment Experiment is a performance collective that has met weekly since the beginning of October 2018. With the promise of showing up, our six person collective continues to share and interrogate our practices as performance makers once a week, every week, no excuses. We open up our collective space here to facilitate a partnered talking and body work exercise, a group practice centered on mining our histories as they relate to nature and the natural, and a collective sewing practice where we interrogate historical usage of the black flag as we bring back the radical roots of the word gossip.

PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS

byJanuary 10-12 @ 7:30 pmJanuary 12 & 13 @ 3:00 pm

Meta-Phys Ed’s THE TALMUD is a genre-bending performance based on the Talmund and Kung-Fu films about the transmission of ancient traditions and sacred wisdom across generations; from teacher to student and master to disciple.

Directed by Jesse Freedman

Performed by: Hui-Shan Yong, Lucie Allouche, Sean Devare, Zixin Liu and Lu Liu

Costumes: Karen Boyer

Sound: Avi A. Amon

Set: Kyu Shin

Projection: Gil Sperling

Lights: Yi-Chung Chen

Assistant Director: Robert Malbrough

Stage Manager: Léah Miller

Production Manager: Kelly Lamanna

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WOOF NOVA / SHUGA PIE SUPREME / TITLE: POINT*

January 17-19 @ 8:00 pm

January 20 @ 3:00 pm

Woof Nova & The Tank present MICROCOSMITOR

​Woof Nova’s latest boundary-defying performance work transcends their usual metaphysical pursuits to explore the uncharted territory of Biocentrism where the audience conspires with the performers on a journey of elastic scale from the internal, microscopic to the far reaches the cosmos.

Created by Annie Kunjappy & Daniel Allen Nelson

Directed by Kara Feely

Performed by Temple Crocker, Annie Kunjappy, and Daniel Allen Nelson

Production & Lighting Designer: Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew

Video Designer: David Pym

Sound Designer: Brandon Pane

Production Stage Manager: Connor Scully

Shuga Pie Supreme presents COWBOY

This cowboy… Is amazing

Performed by a rotating cast on the following dates:

1/17 – Becca Blackwell

1/18 – Dasha Nekrasova

1/19 – Harron Atkins

1/20 – Brittain Ashford

Written by Gracie Gardner

Directed by Charles Quittner

Scenic designer: Jennay Say Qua

Title: Point presents SLEEPING CAR PORTERS

Two characters, “Billy the Kid” and “Zodiac,” must navigate an unforgiving landscape that forces them to reveal their layered identities to one another while coming to terms with their destructive nature. Title:Point’s SLEEPING CAR PORTERS is a pitch black comedy that explores western masculine myth through a phantasmagoria of power, violence, and mystery.

Produced by Title:Point

Written by Ryan William Downey

Featuring: Theresa Buchheister, Ryan William Downey, and DJ Mendel

Stage Managed by Devon Wade Granmo

Lighting Designer: Brian Lady

Projection Designer: Scott M Ries

Scenic Designer: Abigail Entsminger

*Performed on a split bill