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WORK & SHOW FESTIVAL
March 30 - April 7 at Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Tribeca Performing Arts Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College presents its annual WORK & SHOW FESTIVAL beginning March 30th. This outgrowth of their eleven year old Artist-in-Residence program will feature new work by seven artists representing both dance and theater. The program for the series is as follows:

Sundays, March 30 & April 6 at 7pm
Deganit Shemy - Iodine
Five women dancers examine themselves through their reflections in others and through an outside eye that diagnoses and judges them. In multiple interactions, the dance explores female vulnerability, the push-pull of alienation and connection, and repetitive defensive mechanisms often expressed in the social domain.

Mondays, March 31 & April 7 at 7pm
Lynn M. Thomson - America-in-Play
For nearly three years, over two dozen playwrights have investigated a neglected legacy from America's popular drama created between 1776-1914. Now, the playwrights, building on and responding to this precious cultural inheritance, create short new plays inspired by these classics. Lynn M. Thomson is a dramaturg, director, and teacher devoted to the development and production of new American plays. She has worked with companies including the Philadelphia Theatre Company, Circle Repertory Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, New Dramatists, and The Drama Department. She is currently an Associate Professor of Theater at Brooklyn College. She is perhaps best known as the dramaturg for the hit musical Rent.

Thursday, April 3r & Friday, April 4 at 7pm
Sahar Javedani - From Persia with Measured Love
This dance theater work is set at the base of the Damavand Mountain, a dormant volcano near the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in Iran. This region possesses a very important place in Iranian mythology and folklore. Once said to imprison a three-headed dragon, the area is believed to hold very special healing powers for those who inhabit the surrounding land. This work follows a small community of villagers and their crunchy encounters with Western culture. What ensues is a fantastic adventure scrubbing indigenous traditions against pop culture, the end result...the sweet smell of cultural pluralism.

Saturday, April 5th @ 7pm, Sunday April 6th @ 2 pm: Triple Bill
Ellis Wood - The Falcon Project
Queen Elizabeth I wore a badge of a falcon as a reminder that females of this species are larger than the males. In fascination with Elizabeth’s "marriage" to her country and label, "The Virgin Queen," Wood uses female icons past and present as inspiration for her newest work, Falcon Project. Using a theatrical edge, a feminine circular theme, and movement and text created to express ideas on gender, the dancers become a metaphor for the "queen," whose main asset is the ability to unabashedly embrace her power to its fullest.
Christal Brown - Venus and After The Fall
Venus examines the exploitation of women and ponders why in the aftermath of American slavery, women of African descent continually choose to use their femininity for ill-gotten gain. Inspired by the timeless play The Trojan Women, After the Fall looks at the role women play during and after wartime throughout history; must women consistently pick up the pieces only to scrape by or are they capable of transforming tragedy into prosperity?
Edisa Weeks - LIAISONS
- small dances in small spaces for big people!
Four dancers who stretch the boundaries of closeness between strangers and invite the audience to intimately gaze at the unfolding movement. The work asks questions of how intimacy is perceived in unexpected environments and how public performance is understood within private spaces.
Ellis Wood - The Falcon Project
Queen Elizabeth I wore a badge of a falcon as a reminder that females of this species are larger than the males. In fascination with Elizabeth’s "marriage" to her country and label, "The Virgin Queen," Wood uses female icons past and present as inspiration for her newest work, Falcon Project. Using a theatrical edge, a feminine circular theme, and movement and text created to express ideas on gender, the dancers become a metaphor for the "queen," whose main asset is the ability to unabashedly embrace her power to its fullest.

Tribeca Performing Arts Center’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program enables emerging and established theatre artists -- writers, directors, choreographers, and composers -- to create and develop a new work. The residency takes place on site in Tribeca PAC’s two theatres and spans a ten-month period. Public showings of the work in process and the opportunity for a produced presentation at the annual WORK & SHOW FESTIVAL are significant components of the residency. The program is made possible, in part, by contributions from the JP Morgan Chase Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, corporate, foundation, and individual support.

WORK & SHOW FESTIVAL runs March 30 - April 7. Tickets to all shows are $10, unless otherwise noted. Tribeca Performing Arts Center is located at the Borough of Manhattan Community College at 199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich and the West Side highway, accessible from the 1, 2, 3, A, C, E , N, R , 4, 5, 6, J, M trains New Jersey Path train and the M20 & M22 buses). For tickets or more information call 212-220-1460 or visit TribecaPAC.org.