JACK Announces its Fall Performance Season

A mix of emerging and established artists fills the fall roster at multi-disciplinary performance venue JACK, with acknowledged masters Toshi Reagon and trumpeter Peter Evans sharing a season with up-and-comers, including playwright Stacey Rose, solo performer Kareem M. Lucas, playwright Robert Quillen Camp and Bessie-nominated dancer Shamar Wayne Watt, among others. Special highlights are the return of the acclaimed Gracie Gardner play, ATHENA, Korean choreographer In Kyung Lee with Vögel, a poetic piece focused on the female gaze, Black Revolutionary Theater Workshop with the premiere of Sheyenne Javonne Brown's Summoned, in which Orpheus and Eurydice meet the Black Lives Matter movement, and irreverent dancer/choreographer Greg Zuccolo with his "danced play," Busy White People, Goodnight.

OVERVIEW:

ATHENA
By Gracie Gardner
Presented by The Hearth
September 5 - 16

Toshi Reagon PRESENTS:
Word*Rock*Sword: An Exploration of New Ideas
September 17

OYE GROUP:
OYE! Avant Garde Night
September 20 - 22

THE DANGER: A HOMAGE TO STRANGE FRUIT
By Stacey Rose
October 4 - 13

Peter Evans:
More is More Records release mini-festival
October 20 - 21

SHAMAR WAYNE WATT:
Gully spring: Di exhortation
October 25 - 27

Jillian Walker:
Songs of Speculation
November 1 - 3

BLACK REVOLUTIONARY THEATER WORKSHOP:
Summoned
By Sheyenne Javonne Brown
November 8 - 11

Pioneers Go East Collective:
COWBOYSCOWGIRLS (sagittarius)
November 15 - 18

IN KYUNG LEE:
Vögel
November 19

HOW TO LEARN
Written and directed by Robert Quillen Camp
A PETE production
December 6 - 8

KAREEM M. LUCAS:
Black Is Beautiful, But It Ain't Always Pretty
December 13 - 15

GREG ZUCCOLO:
Busy White People, Goodnight
December 20 - 22

JACK's presenting season is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts - Art Works program, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, New Music USA's NYC New Music Impact Fund (made possible with funding from The Scherman Foundation's Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund), Brooklyn Arts Council, The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mental Insight Foundation, The Santvoord Foundation, The Laura B. Vogler Foundation, The Lida Foundation and M & T Charitable Foundation.