Q Ny I Brochure 2014

ABEL AZCONA Spain
BRANKO BREZOVEC Croatia

DARKMATTER U.S.
IVO DIMCHEV Bulgaria
CARLOS FRANKLIN Colombia
SUJATA GOEL U.S./India
BRUNO ISAKOVI Croatia
JAN MARTENS The Netherlands
MARISSA PEREL U.S.
QUEER CLIMATE CHAUTAUQUA
MOR SHANI Israel/The Netherlands
T.R.A.S.H. The Netherlands
UNTITLED QUEEN & MERRIE CHERRY U.S.
JEREMY WADE U.S./Germany / MARK TOMPKINS U.S./France
JACK WATERS & PETER CRAMER U.S.
QueerNY.org
QUEER NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER 17-27 // 2014
QUEER NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2014
Queer New York International Arts Festival is taking place for
the third time, presenting artists from the U.S. and around the
world. We are proud to be able to introduce within the festival
program a diverse range of works, aesthetics and topics,
partnering with numerous venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn
and Queens. Queer New York International will host over 25
events including 12 U.S. premieres of dance and theater per-
formances, concerts, workshops, panels, discussions, etc.
The QNYIAF expands the meanings of what queer perfor-
mances can be. Only reading of queer(ness) through sexuali-
ty, gender or identity is too often neglecting norms like social
status and background, race and ethnicity, geography and
other aspects of what positions us in the world. Deliberately
introducing these ways of exclusion into the discussion about
queerness, QNYIAF deepens the very investigation of queer.
During the festivals intensely paced 12 days, New York audi-
ence will have the opportunity to see various performances
by artists who are working in different performing art formats
and challenging the margins of their own expressive forms.
One of the artists we are very excited about is Ivo Dimchev
who has been a regular guest at the festival and who will
bring his latest work to our audiences. There are exciting
artists from Croatia that we are presenting this year. Branko
Brezovec who comes with a theater work based on a coming
of age story by a famous Austiran novelist Robert Musil and
Bruno Isakovi who will show two of his works at the festival,
one of them being created for New York based dancers
during Brunos residency at Abrons Arts Center. Earl Dax, who
is the recipient of this years Andre von Ah Research and De-
velopment Grant that the festival gives out in memory of the
festivals co-founder, will connect queers and climate change
over a two day event. Jeremy Wade and Mark Tompkins will
bring their latest work, a collaboration aptly titled Stardust. A
special program in the festival will be dedicated to young and
very strong choreographers working in the Netherlands (Jan
Martens, Mor Shani and T.R.A.S.H.) and will feature perfor-
mances, workshops, talks and film presentations.
The festival offers much more and we are looking forward to
seeing you at some of the performances and events.
Zvonimir Dobrovi
Artistic Director
QueerNY.org
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MARISSA PEREL U.S.
More Than Just a Piece of Sky U.S. Premiere
Wednesday, September 17Saturday, September 20 // 8 pm
The Chocolate Factory Theater
$15 // chocolatefactorytheater.org
More Than Just a Piece of Sky mines personal and
cultural exile as a site for exploring gender and sexuality,
knowledge and power, ability and disability. Through the
mythology of Yentl, largely based on Barbra Streisands
1983 movie musical and the story by Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Marissa Perel and the performers examine their
relationships to oppressive cultural constructs and
their inherited religious and nationalist narratives. Perel
deconstructs the narrative of Yentl to tell a new story, one
where difference can create new terms and ways of seeing
self and other.
Marissa Perel is an artist and writer based in New York. Her
interdisciplinary work includes performance, installation,
criticism and curatorial projects, and she often uses
collaboration as a platform for the exchange of disciplines,
working methods, and discourses with choreographers,
composers, and visual artists. Drawing from the polemics
of identity and representation, Perel orchestrates an
immersive world where text, objects, dance and video
transmit experiences of personal and societal conflicts.
Her work has been presented at numerous galleries,
theaters, and performance spaces in the U.S. and abroad,
including Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project,
The Poetry Project, the Chocolate Factory Theater, Center
for Performance Research, Defibrillator Performance Art
Gallery (Chicago), D.I.V.O Institute (Prague), and Medium
Gallery (Bratislava, Slovakia).
Directed by Marissa Perel; performed by Marissa Perel,
Jumatatu Poe, and Lindsay Reuter; music by Marissa
Perel with Miguel Gutierrez and guest composers; video
by Marissa Perel with Nicholas Steindorf and Kristiana
Weseloh; Photo by Yasamin Ghanbari
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BRANKO BREZOVEC Croatia
Confusions U.S. Premiere
Wednesday, September 17 // 9 pm
Thursday, September 18 + Friday, September 19 // 9:30 pm
Saturday, September 20 + Sunday, September 21 // 8 pm
Abrons Arts Center Playhouse
$15 // abronsartscenter.org
Confusions was conceived as a radical theater experiment
created as a collaboration between different departments
of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Branko
Brezovec, the highly innovative Croatian theater director,
and a professor at the Academy, engaged students in
staging Austrian writer Robert Musils 1906 novel, The
Confusions of Young Trless. The novel follows the
vicissitudes of the young military school student Trless,
whose confused moral complicity with his classmates via
brutality such as torture and rape reveals the dark side of
homoerotic relationships. The work examines mechanisms
of desire, the incomprehensibility of the other, and the
pathology of normality.
Branko Brezovec studied philosophy and comparative
literature before entering the Academy of Dramatic Art
in Zagreb, where he graduated in theater direction. In
the 1970s Brezovec founded one of Yugoslavias most
significant alternative groups, the Coccolemocco Theatre
Company. Brezovecs performances have been presented
at international festivals and in theaters around the world.
Since 2002 he has worked as a professor at the Academy
of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.
Dramatization and Direction: Branko Brezovec; Set Design
and Photographs: Tihomir Milovac; Costume Design: Irena
Suac; Music: Peteris Vasks (Symphony No. 2), Richard
Wagner (Siegfried; Act III, scene 3); Video: Ivan Marui
Klif; Assistant Director and Stage Movement: Natalija
Manojlovi; Assistant Director and Video Projection: Ivan
Planini; Light Design: Petar Strmeki; Technical Support:
Stjepan Filipec Ges; Construction of the Set: Zvonko Sari
& Apscisa d.o.o. Cast: Romano Nikoli, Hrvojka Begovi,
Adrian Pezdirc, Domagoj Jankovi, Ognen Drangovski,
Suzana Brezovec, Tihomir Milovac; Films: Kurt Kren and
Ivan Ladislav Galeta; Production: Production: Academy of
Dramatic Art Zagreb, Eurokaz, Domino
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IVO DIMCHEV Bulgaria
I-cure U.S. Premiere
Friday, September 19 // 8 pm
Abrons Arts Center Experimental
$10 suggested donation // abronsartscenter.org
If healing is a choice then why not make this choice while
being in the theatre. Why should we waste another hour of
trying to be more cultural, when we can use it for being
healthier. This performance is made to heal not only par-
ticular physical or psychological difficulties you have but
also all of them simultaneously, I-cure can also heal people
you love and care for, it all depends on where you would
like to focus the healing power of I-cure. I-cure is not one
to one therapy, its designed to cure the whole audience at
the same time. Your involvement in the process will have a
significant impact on the healing, even much bigger than
the performance itself. As more you think of I-cure as a
cultural experience as more general and temporal will be
the therapeutic effect of it. Dont waste your time in the
theatre, take advantage of it!
Ivo Dimchevs work is an extreme, colorful mix of
performance art, dance, theater, music, text, and visual
elements. He is the author of more than 30 performances
presented across Europe and North America. He has
received numerous international dance and theater
awards, including the Iron Medal for Contemporary Art
Vencislav Zankov (2013) and a Bessie Award nomination
for his work Lili Handel (2011). After his masters studies
at DasArts Academy in Amsterdam, Dimchev moved
to Brussels and opened his own performance space,
Volksroom, where he presents young international artists.
Dimchev is a master teacher at the National Theater
Academy in Budapest, and founding director of Humarts
foundation in Bulgaria. He is currently artist in residence at
Kaaitheater in Brussels.
Text, music, choreography by Ivo Dimchev
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GROUP SHOWCASE
Saturday, September 20 // 8 pm
Grace Exhibition Space & Gallery
$10 suggested donation // grace-exhibition-space.com
This will be a site-specific event where the artists are
invited to create projects that reflect their unique artistic
universes in innovative ways that are a departure from
their usual form or media. The evening will include
numerous international and U.S. artists who have been
selected to take part. During the course of an evening,
the artists will present their work with each performance
/ installation / intervention / happening starting in
consecutive intervals, and lasting from several minutes to
several hours.
The work presented will range from performance art,
installation / video work and happenings. The artists are
creating work that is both intimate and personal, engaging
and demanding to perform. Queer New York International
Arts Festival is pairing with Grace Gallery Exhibition Space
on creating this event that will surely be an experience for
the audience.
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QUEER CLIMATE CHAUTAUQUA +
QUEER PLANET INSTALLATION
Saturday and Sunday, September 20 and 21
abronsartscenter.org
Drawing inspiration from the Chautauqua movement of
the early 20th century and converging with the Peoples
Climate March on Sunday, September 21, the Queer
Climate Chautauqua is designed to mobilize and inspire
queer participation in the March, an unprecedented
mobilization to address the climate crisis. The weeklong
project begins with community workshops in puppet
building and other participatory activities leading to the
creation of Queer Planet, a temporary public installation
in the Experimental Theater at Abrons created by
Bizzy Barefoot, Quito Zieglar and dozens of volunteers.
Beginning Saturday, September 20, the public is invited
to visit Queer Planet to make signs, props, and puppets
for the march. Live performances, teach-ins, and video
screenings will occur throughout the day and into the
evening, and people are encouraged to bring a sleeping
bag and spend the night. On Sunday, September 21st,
we will leave from Abrons as a group to join the Peoples
Climate March. Please visit the Abrons Arts Center website
for an up-to-date schedule of activities and participating
artists.
This event was commissioned by Queer New York
International through the 2014 Andr von Ah research
and development grant. In 2013 the festival established
the Andr von Ah Research and Development Grant for
queer art, in honor of the work of the late co-founder and
curator of Queer New York International Arts Festival,
Andr von Ah (19872013). The grant supports artists and
curators in the U.S. whose work challenges conventions of
queer art.
Lead Organizer and Curator: Earl Dax
Installation: Bizzy Barefoot and Quito Ziegler
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Denuded U.S. Premiere
Tuesday, September 23 // 8 pm
A constantly evolving piece, Denuded was created by
choreographer and dancer Bruno Isakovi in 2013, and
performed by him in last years festival. This new version
is interpreted and performed by dancer Ana Vnuec.
Denuded is about the body, movement and stillness,
breathing and, most importantly, about a constant
contact with the audience. The confrontation of the naked
body and the gaze is the works driving force. Isakovis
collaboration with Vnuec broadens the original work
by taking into account the female body together with a
different performing experience, at the same time playing
with and emphasizing stereotypes and clichs that arise
therein.
Bruno Isakovi graduated with a degree in contemporary
dance from the Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2009.
In 2010 he returned to Croatia to continue his activities
in the field of dance art, and in September 2011 became a
member of Contemporary Dance Studio. Ana Vnuec, also
a member of the Contemporary Dance Studio, is one of
Zagrebs most interesting young dancers.
Author: Bruno Isakovi; Performer: Ana Vnuec;
Consultation: Iva Nerina Sibila; Production: Studio za
suvremeni ples / Perforacije / Domino
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T.R.A.S.H. The Netherlands
TBernadette U.S. Premiere
Part of Dutch Focus / New Amsterdam Program
Wednesday, September 24 // 8 pm
On the stage with a washing machine, several wigs,
and lots of costumes, a man and a woman live out
their relationship. This emotional dance-duet exposes
ecstasy as a precondition for the merging of the two
people, who are soon each wandering in their own world,
losing themselves and each other. Through the daze of
desire they encounter the dark, unknown sides of their
personalities.
Concept & choreography: Kristel van Issum; Music
composition: Arthur van der Kuip; Set design: Paul van
Weert; Performed with and created by: Joss Carter
(Guilherme Miotto original cast) and Lucie Petruov and/
or Oona Doherty; Musician: Jacqueline Hamelink (Cello)
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DUTCH FOCUS
In an intense pace during
three days, the New York audi-
ence will have the opportunity
to experience the outstanding
moments of contemporary
Dutch dance appearances of
one of the most prominent
names of the Dutch dance
scene, Jan Martens,
Mor Shani and T.R.A.S.H.
With the program, which
represents a cross-section of
dance forms, workshops and
dance film, and with the latest
work by Jan Martens and his
extensive production of The
Dog Days Are Over, which
just finished a very successful
European tour, the QNYIA
festival offers a kaleidoscopic
view of what is now being
created in the field of dance in
the Netherlands.
Dutch focus discussion and
workshop program is created
in order to create a quality
American-Dutch connection,
and includes workshops from
professionals and amateurs,
dance films, meet and greet
with American programmers
and an after talk organized
by American artists. The
encounter of the artists and
professionals will bring to
exchange of different tech-
niques and understandings of
performative arts in different
countries, especially specific-
ities in artistic understanding
of the perception of identities,
body and movement.
Detailed information on the
schedule of additional events:
www.queerNY.org
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JEREMY WADE U.S./Germany / MARK TOMPKINS U.S./France
Stardust U.S. Premiere
Wednesday, September 24 + Thursday, September 25 // 9 pm
Abrons Arts Center Underground
Mark and I put this thing together and called it Stardust.
The rules are simple: we meet one day before the gig, find
some crappy costumes in a party shop, talk about the stuff
of life, then go on stage the next day and make people
laugh until they cry. What we have on stage is a bit like
falling in love. You are so out of your mind that you believe
anything is possible, and for a little while it is. You dont
really know whats going on or why its working, but you
just open up to this not knowing. Even when it falls apart,
because thats when it gets real and subsequently makes
for some damn good material on stage. Its the stuff of life,
and we milk it hard, hands on the udder, pull, squeeze, pull,
squeeze. The underlying core of this chemical romance,
aside from the terrible jokes in matching green sequin mini-
skirts, is that we both deeply believe that improvisation is
important. We fight for this improvisation thing because we
know it has the capacity to shatter the construct of Theater
a thing so terribly over-coded to the point of full-blown
stratification. The task of shaking it up is a difficult one, but
crucial to its wellbeing (and ours). So we propose a toast to
the tension that exists on stage when the performers dont
know what the @%&$ they are going to do. This space full
of possibility, a little fleeting chunk of queer utopia, a little
future stardust space where we can laugh at the edge of
impossible.
Jeremy Wade is an American dancer, choreographer, and
teacher based in Berlin. He graduated from the School For
New Dance Development in Amsterdam in 2000. Wade pre-
miered his first evening-length work, Glory, at DTW in New
York in 2006, for which he received a Bessie Award. He is a
co-founder of Chez Bushwick in Brooklyn.
Mark Tompkins is an American dancer, choreographer,
and teacher living in France since 1973. In 1983 he founded
the company I.D.A., International Dreems Associated. His
recent works have evolved towards musical theater. In 2008,
Tompkins received the prestigious Society of Dramatic
Authors and Composers (SACD) Choreography Prize for his
body of work.
Creation: Mark Tompkins, Jeremy Wade; Lights: Natalie Robin
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ABEL AZCONA Spain
Someone Else U.S. Premiere
Thursday, September 25 // 6 pm
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
$10 suggested donation // www.leslielohman.org
Abel Azcona uses his body to illustrate personal
experiences of abandonment, pain, and empathy. In
Someone Else he shows us interpersonal relations, both
sentimental and sexual, in which in a parallel way, true
feelings, true love, or the true object of desire are all
hidden. The artist shares different intimacies with different
people, making the antagonist-guest the protagonist. He
presents dreams that become true in the mind, but never
in the actual body.
Abel Azcona is a Spanish interdisciplinary and
performance artist. He creates cathartic works as a
means of self knowledge and personal construction.
Azconas artwork has been presented in various museums,
contemporary art centers, and galleries worldwide.
Synergetically autobiographical and critical, his work takes
audiences into his inner world and invites them to share
their own experiences. His themes are directly informed by
his experiences as the child of a prostitute, and his passing
through multiple childrens shelters, mental institutions,
and foster homes, as well as adelescent episodes of
drug use, prostitution, and several suicide attempts. The
resillient artist assures the public that when he practices
self-harm, it is his own choice to alter the shape of his
body, as opposed to an abused child or woman who has
no choice.
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Denuded for two dancers U.S. Premiere
Friday, September 26 + Saturday, September 27 // 8 pm
Created as a solo performance, Denuded bases its
movement quality on the relationship between breath
and physical tension and the ways in which it permeates
the body in each moment. It sets these two organic
body functions within the performing moment and uses
gradation of their interdependence to radicalize, confront,
and re-neutralize them. This creates the physicality that
deconstructs and translates meanings out of constant
transformations of the body and its need to relax,
reactivate, and be conscious. First performed by Bruno
Isakovi, and then adapted for a female performer, the
process revealed the specificity of each body and the
whole new range of meanings. Denuded for two dancers
will use the same physical practices in a duet form with
U.S.-based dancers. It will explore the dependence of
two bodies how two bodies understand, cooperate, or
are influenced by each other during their own constant
transformation. The work was developed during a
residency at Abrons Arts Center in August and September
2014.
Author: Bruno Isakovi; Performers: Lorene Bouboushian;
Production: Domino
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MOR SHANI Israel/The Netherlands
Love-ism U.S. Premiere
Thursday, September 25 // 9 pm

Love-ism is a long-term study inspired by Erich Fromms
seminal book, The Art of Loving. With this work Mor
Shani takes a close look at the human experience of
intimacy, challenging the perception and liquidity of
the agreed upon, the sublime, and the condemned. The
concept of Love-ism emerged from Shanis personal
need to reconnect to the community after three years of
working in the hermetic surroundings of the studio and
the production house. It is a reaction to the growing denial
of the function of the arts in society, and grew out of the
wish to expand the creative process beyond the premises
of the professional field to be relevant to a larger audience
and share not only a product, but also the act of making.

Mor Shani is a freelance choreographer based in the
Netherlands. He started his professional career as a
dancer in Bat Dor dance company in Tel Aviv. In 2009 he
graduated from ArtEZ dance academy in Arnhem and has
since been creating his own works in various productions
houses. He was a resident artist at Dansatelier Rotterdam
in 2010, where he created pieces such as Flatland, selected
by the Aerowaves Network as one of the best young
makers creations. His work Lu Carmella (in collaboration
with Ron Amit) was nominated for the Dutch VSCD Zwaan
award for Most Impressive Dance Production of 2009.
Shani has been an artist in residence at the International
Choreographic Arts Centre in Amsterdam since 2013.
Concept and Choreography: Mor Shani; Film and visuals:
Paul Sixta; Performers: Pawel Konior, Majon van der
Schot; Artistic management: Shiran Shveka; Photo: Paul
Sixta, Ewa Szymczyk; Music: Jaap van Keulen; Artistic
advice: Anne-Marije van den Bersselaar, Rene Copraij,
Kristin de Groot; Production: Dansateliers Rotterdam,
ICKAmsterdam and Frascati Productions
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Ode to attempt U.S. Premiere
Ode to attempt is a humorous deconstruction of the
creative process, performed by Jan Martens. The work
focuses on the different steps of process and the layers
that become invisible in the final stage of a work. Ode to
attempt gives these steps that never reached the stage or
an audience a second life, positing their imperfect quality
as something of equal value to final product. In this work,
Martens thematizes the imperfect, this time not as an
adjective (as in imperfect body) but as a state in itself,
worth sharing and being seen.
From and with Jan Martens.
Thank you: Jeroen Bosch, Kristin de Groot, Joris van
Oosterwijk and all the Bproject Partners: Jheronimus
Bosch 500 (NL), Comune di Bassano del Grappa (IT),
Dance Umbrella London (UK), La Briqueterie/CDC du Val
de Marne (FR), D.ID Dance Identity (AT), Festival CEMENT
(NL), Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL)
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The Dog Days Are Over U.S. Premiere
The Dog Days Are Over is inspired by photographer
Philippe Halsmans words: Ask someone to jump and
youll see their true face. After engaging and intrusive
solo acts about the beauty of the imperfect body, Jan
Martens now creates something completely different, a
critical performance about the thin line between art and
trickery. The work asks what is the true face of dance in
these uncertain times. What would we like to show, what
would we like to see? The Dog Days Are Over shows the
dancers giving in to one physical act: the jumpa repetitive
and exhausting act that askswhat?
Jan Martens studied at the Fontys Dance Academy in
Tilburg and graduated from the Artesis Conservatory for
Dance in Antwerp in 2006. He has performed in the work
of Koen De Preter, United-C, Mor Shani, and Ann Van den
Broek, among others. In 2009 Martens started develop-
ing his own choreographic work. his works explores the
possibility of perfect balance and symbiosis between
storytelling and conceptualism. Rather than create a
new movement language, he molds and recycles existing
idioms, placing them in a different setting, so that new
ideas emerge. His internationally recognised duet Sweat
Baby Sweat is still touring. In 2013, he received the Prins
Bernhard Cultuurfonds Award for dance. He is currently
a guest artist at the International Choreographic Arts
Centre (Amsterdam), where he coaches on the artistic and
business of dance.
Author: Jan Martens; Performers: Cherish Menzo, Piet
Defrancq, Julien Josse, Laura Vanborm, Nelle Hens,
Steven Michel, Naomi Gibson and Kimmy Ligtvoet;
Lighting design: Jan Fedinger; Dramaturgy: Rene
Copraij; Technics: Michel Spang; Production:
ICKamsterdam and JAN; Coproduction: Frascati
Producties, SPRING performing arts festival,
DansBrabant, La Briqueterie CDC du Val-de-Marne,
tanzhaus nrw and TAKT Dommelhof
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SUJATA GOEL U.S./India
Dancing Girl U.S. Premiere

In Dancing Girl, Sujata Goel presents a fictional character
version of herself, a mythical doll-like figure who reveals
the artist and continually morphsfrom broken doll to
beautiful doll to dancing doll to a lonely dollfinally
disappearing completely and returning to a dormant
invisible state. Dancing Girl depicts a performer who
seeks to step outside of her body and confront the image
of herself. To create Dancing Girl, Goel She clinically
mapped out her physical and psychological behaviors by
documenting her qualities, moods, gestures, habits, and
movement patterns in order to experience herself as data,
as information that could be manipulated and reorganized
to take on new meanings. Dancing Girl depicts a
performer who seeks to step outside of her body and
confront the image of herself.
Sujata Goel is a dancer trained in classical Bharatanatyam
and contemporary dance. She graduated from Kalakshetra
(Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts) in 2001 and worked
with Chennai-based choreographer Padmini Chettur from
2002 to 2004. She continued her training in contemporary
dance at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels. After she graduated, she
was an artist-in-residence at WP Zimmer, where she
produced three works: Lady, Disco Dancer, and Nightlife.
Dancing Girl was created with support from the Indian
Foundation of the Arts and a research and production
residency at the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts
Research in Pondicherry, India.
Choreography and performance: Sujata Goel; Sound: Over
the Edges by Andrew Chalk; Costume: Tabasheer Zutshi;
Light design: Yap Seok Hui; Production: Tang Fu Kuen;
Photo: Jesper Haynes
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featuring Darkmatter,
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Friday, September 26 + Saturday, September 27 // 10 pm
Sunday, September 28 // 5 pm
The Club at La MaMa
$18 // $13 students and seniors // lamama.org
These three evenings will highlight the multicultural, multi-
racial diversity of contemporary, young queer performing
arts scene. The final evening will present the dual work of
Jack Water and Peter Cramer, manifesting the history and
lineage of queer performance, and the role of both Water
and Cramer as mentors to the current generation of queer
performance artists.
The program is co-curated by Nicky Paraiso and Dan
Fishback. A co-presentation of La MaMa, the Queer New
York International Arts Festival, and The Helix Queer
Performance Network. Merrie Cherry photo by Tinker
Coalescing; Untitled Queen photo by Stephanie Keith.
Darkmatter (Janani Balasubramanian & Alok Vaid-Menon)
DarkMatter is a trans, South Asian spoken-word duo
hivemind flipping the scantron on your model minority
narrative, returning that basic gayze, and spitting anti-
colonial futures. They perform regularly at universities
across the country and venues in New York City.
Individually, they have done social justice work at local
organizations such as the Queer Detainee Empowerment
Project and the Audre Lorde Project. Balasubramanian is
also a writer at Black Girl Dangerous (an online forum for
QTPOC).
Untitled Queen & Merrie Cherry
Untitled Queen is a visual artist, drag queen, and graphic
designer who lives and works in Brooklyn. She was
born and raised on Governors Island, New York, until
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its shutdown in 1996. She received her BFA from the
University of Connecticut and her MFA in visual arts
from Parsons The New School for Design. She hosts a
drag show/underwear party called Bottoms Up every
Wednesday at Sugarland Nightclub in Williamsburg.
Merrie Cherry is one of the few power queens in Brooklyn,
not stopping at being an entertainer she also plans special
events such as the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards and hosts
at various parties throughout the city. She sleeps during
the day and throws glitter in your face at night. She can
be found every third Thursday at Metropolitan Bar for
DRAGnet. She performs all over Brooklyn and in select
parts of Manhattan.
Sunday, September 28 // 5 pm
Jack Waters & Peter Cramer
Jack Waters & Peter Cramer have a long association
with La MaMa from their 1986 One Night Stands cabaret
performances to the more recent MIXploritorium 2011, and
Visual AIDS 25th anniversary exhibit NOT OVER (2013),
both at La MaMa Galleria. They are performers, filmmakers,
founders of The Greenthumb Garden Le Petit Versailles,
and the non-profit arts organization Allied Productions,
Inc. They are former co-directors of ABC No Rio (1983
1990). They were artists in residence at the 2013 Emily
Harvey Foundation/Venice, and are working on a multi-
media musical opus entitled Pestilence that has resulted
in a presentation in collaboration with Harvestworks/
PASS Studio at the Emily Harvey Gallery New York. Recent
publications that include their histories are Sur Rodney
(Sur)s revised chronology for Radical Presence: Black
Performance in Contemporary Art; Alternative Histories:
New York Art Spaces, 19602010, edited by Lauren
Rosati and Mary Anne Staniszewski (MIT Press); and
Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Generation by
Sarah Schulman (University of California Press).
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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Wednesday, September 17
8 pm // MARISSA PEREL More Than Just a Piece of Sky
9 pm // BRANKO BREZOVEC Confusions
Abrons Underground
Thursday, September 18
9:30 pm // BRANKO BREZOVEC Confusions
Abrons Underground
Friday, September 19
8 pm // IVO DIMCHEV I-cure
Abrons Experimental
9:30 pm // BRANKO BREZOVEC Confusions
Abrons Underground
Saturday, September 20
Abrons Underground
8 pm // GROUP SHOWCASE
9 pm // QUEER CLIMATE CHAUTAUQUA +
Abrons Experimental Theater
Sunday, September 21
Abrons Underground
9 pm // QUEER CLIMATE CHAUTAUQUA +
Abrons Experimental Theater
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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Tuesday, September 23
8 pm // BRUNO ISAKOVI Denuded
Abrons Experimental
Wednesday, September 24
8 pm // T.R.A.S.H. TBernadette
Abrons Experimental
9 pm // JEREMY WADE & MARK TOMPKINS Stardust
Abrons Underground
Thursday, September 25
6 pm // ABEL AZCONA Someone Else
Leslie Lohman Museum
8 pm // JEREMY WADE & MARK TOMPKINS Stardust
Abrons Underground
9 pm // MOR SHANI Love-ism
Abrons Experimental
Friday, September 26
8 pm // BRUNO ISAKOVI Denuded for two dancers
Abrons Experimental
9 pm // JAN MARTENS Ode to attempt + Dog Days Are Over
Abrons Playhouse
10 pm // DARKMATTER
La MaMa
Saturday, September 27
8 pm // BRUNO ISAKOVI Denuded for two dancers
Abrons Experimental
9 pm // SUJATA GOEL Dancing Girl
Abrons Playhouse
10 pm // UNTITLED QUEEN & MERRIE CHERRY
La MaMa
Sunday, September 28
5 pm //JACK WATERS & PETER CRAME
La MaMa
FESTIVAL VENUES
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
Manhattan
212.598.0400
abronsartscenter.org
5-49 49th Avenue (between Vernon Boulevard + 5th Street)
Long Island City, Queens
718.482.7069
chocolatefactorytheater.org
840 Broadway, 2nd Floor (at 13th Street)
Brooklyn
646.578.3402
grace-exhibition-space.com
The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street, 2nd Floor
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
Manhattan
212.475.7710
lamama.org
26 Wooster Street (between Grand and Canal Streets)
Manhattan
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QUEER NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2014
Artistic Director & Producer
Zvonimir Dobrovi
Executive Producer
Adriana Dobrovi
Coordination and Production
Karla Horvat Crnogaj, Vera Pfaff, Dina Jokanovi
La MaMa Music Series Curators
Nicky Paraiso, Dan Fishback
Performances at Grace Exhibition Space Co-curator
Jill McDermid-Hokanson
Queer Climate Chautauqua Curator
Earl Dax
Discussions / Panels
Jeremy M. Barker
Technical Support
Tomislav Maglei
Marketing and Promotion
Patrick Duffy
Press Representative
Janet Stapleton
212.633.0016 // jstapleton@att.net
Queer New York International 2014
is made possible with major support from
Alphawood Foundation
Financial Support
Domino, City of Zagreb, Croatian Ministry of Culture, Fonds
Podiumkunsten/Performing Arts Fund NL, Consulate
General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs
Media Support
Culturebot, Gayletter, In*tandem Creatives
Presenting Partners
Abrons Arts Center
La MaMa
Grace Exhibition Space
This is a Domino project.

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