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The Exponential Festival and The Brick present: “CASSANDRA”
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The cursed Cassandra, a true prophet that no one believes, desperately tries to save what’s left of her home from self-obsessed siblings, a depressive mother and the machinations of the gods. Wavering between 12th century B.C. and 2024 A.D., CASSANDRA reimagines Euripides’ The Trojan Women as a phantasmagoria of comic selfishness and horror.
Using a pre-recorded script and a cast of dancers, dialogue acts only as a score for the movements, gestures, and tableaux vivants on stage, illustrating multiple parallel narratives: of a women-led talent agency, of ancient war, of corporate America, and of the delusions that sustain them.
CREATIVE TEAM
written & directed by Susannah Yugler movement made in collaboration with the ensemble: Nick Alselmo, Josie Bettman, Joel Dean, Robin Denzer, Aimee Grumbach, Ellie Quiring, and Vita Taurke original music performed by Devin Shaffer
Find them: susannahyugler.com, @_s00ze_
CASSANDRA was developed in part during a Baryshnikov Arts Residency, taking place at Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY, and made with materials sourced from Materials For The Arts (MFTA).
Exponential is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. theexponentialfestival.org
Venue: The Brick
579 Metropolitan Ave
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718-907-6189
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