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CHASE: WHAT MATTERS MOST?

Six low-level employees of an anonymous bank refuse to take the apocalypse seriously- each on their own metaphysical journey, they intersect during work hours to try and keep afloat of their clerical responsibilities, share their nightmares, and attempt (and fail) to behold the world's terrible face, unmasked. Utilizing our singular hybrid of dance, text, and interactive media, "Chase" will stage the struggle for survival in a degenerating world.






THE BARONESS IS THE FUTURE

Exploding into incantation and dance, The Baroness is the Future unfolds the life and work of poetess, found object sculptor, and proto-Dadaist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, whom Duchamp called simply, “the future.” In a collision of the Baroness’ ecstatic early poems with unpublished fragments of a regret-filled autobiography, TBITF asks what happens when creativity and responsibility clash. < MORE INFO >






BACKSTAGE AT HORROR DRAG

Inspired by the real-life Filipino drag sensation Ryan Robles, “Backstage at Horror Drag” imagines a flourishing niche of performance and the community of people who give their lives to it, despite the nearly total lack of recognition or reward. Through a series of sets intercut with scenes of backstage competitiveness, “Backstage at Horror Drag” is made of glamour, costuming, crafting, glitter explosions, and above all; lip-syncing.






PYT - poor yellow trash

On a remote tropical beach covered in the trash that has washed ashore from first-world nations, two young sisters create stories of the world around them through puppets created out of the trash they find.