WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM? to Play Special Effects Festival at The Wild Project
By: BWW News Desk Dec. 20, 2016
Contemporary Performance's Special Effects Festival presents What's YOUR Problem? // A Deep Space Lounge Act, created by Lisa Clair Group, on January 6, 2016: 8PM at The Wild Project (195 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009 | thewildproject.com; 212.228.1195). Tickets are $20.
LISA CLAIR'S MAGNETIC, UNEXPECTED, INTERGALACTIC TAKE ON CABARET SERVES UP GLITTER AND GLAM IN THE FACE OF BODILY DISASTER!
Medical trauma gets the ol' glitter-and-glam, smokey lounge, old-time treatment in this neo-cabaret with original music. A lounge singer determined to transform personal disaster blends medical experiences, bodily invasion and pop culture depictions of our universe into a deep space musical extravaganza.
Created by: Lisa Clair Group
Original music: Brian McCorkle
Direction/Choreography: Allison Plamondon
Performances by: Lisa Clair, Brian McCorkle, Hanlon Smith-Dorsey, JedidiaH Clarke, David Commander
Media design: Rob Ramirez
Original Direction: Chantal Pavagueaux
Additional Choreography: Sam Pinkleton
*The theater is handicapped accessible.
Lisa Clair Group is a Brooklyn-based collective of performers, musicians and designers who collaborate across disciplines to create live, experimental performance led by Lisa Clair. Their work blends Clair's original text, broad physicality, music, media and often times food in order to explore personal mythology and the space where fact meets fiction. Previous work has been presented at Dixon Place, Jack, The Performance Project at University Settlement, Cloud City, Ars Nova and The Silent Barn.
Lisa Clair is a playwright, performer, singer and voice over actress based in Brooklyn, NY. As a performer she collaborates with NY based Theater artists David Commander, Normandy Sherwood, Banana Bag and Bodice, Nellie Tinder, Dan Fishback and Immediate Medium. She is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Brooklyn College under Mac Wellman For more information, visit www.lisarafaelaclair.com.
Artist driven and oriented, Special Effects gathers experimental performance works by practitioners exploring contemporary issues. Drawing on a network of over 7,000 artists who are part of www.contemporaryperformance.com, the festival samples the diversity and richness of the discipline of performance and presents an open forum for critical thinking on the issues of the day. Go to sfxfestival.com for more information.
Photo Credit: Maria Baranova
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