Body Parts a series of… Pamela Enz & Ève L-J

About This Show

Electric text by Pamela Enz becomes propulsive narration when partnered with Ève L-J’s living construction, turning all flavors of chaotic love into an energy propeller through counter-weighted Kinetic Intercourse.

Anita Durst as LoadedLADY brings to pulsating life a woman who has grown her own male member for unexpected purposes. Delving deeper into hearts and other feeling body parts, Julie Atlas Muz and Jack Nieman movingly amuse.

Original music composed by Luis Mojica. Directed by Vera Beren.

About the artists

Ève L-J aka Eve Bailey (Set Designer) single-handedly designs, engineers and builds large kinetic and ergonomic structures that she and professional dancers contort and balance on. Ève was classically trained in ballet, music, theater, drawing and sculpture in France. During her time in the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genre department, she started merging sculpture with her practice of dance and martial arts. She has exhibited her work across Europe and the US. Photographs of her recent piece Rising Awareness at the Night of Philosophy were featured in the New York Times, Artforum and the Wall Street Journal. For more information, visit Ève’s website [www.evebailey.net].

Vera Beren is a NYC actress, director, sound designer, composer and singer. Her work as a performer, director and/or sound designer has been seen in productions at Abrons Art Center, HERE, The Signature Theatre, Ontological, La Mama, 3 Legged Dog, The Vineyard Playhouse, TNC, Dixon Place, The Culture Project, The Kitchen, EST, 29th St. Rep, Harold Clurman Theater, Soho Rep, Symphony Space, The Flea, Blue Heron Arts Center, 45 Bleecker, Theatorium, Paradise Theater, One Dream, The Women’s Project & New Georges. She is a founding member of Concrete Temple Theatre and has worked with The Living Theatre, The Alchemical Theatre, and her own company Let’s Slap Ulysses.

Anita Durst (Performer) has been star, muse, and patron of the avant-garde performing arts and emerging arts scene in New York City since she was 18. She founded chashama in 1995 following the death of her mentor and artistic professor Reza Abdoh. Performing with his company, Dar A Luz, she learned the value of unbridled expression and how to value art objectively. In the wake of Reza’s absence, she was driven to provide performance spaces to artists free of financial and subjective constraints. Anita believes programs like chashama are the vital building blocks to ensuring cultural capital in New York City.

Pamela Enz (Playwright) has won three PEN grants, two Edward Albee Fellowships and a Franklin Furnace Emerging Performance grant. Her work has been performed at Circle Rep, Ensemble Studio Theater, The 92 St. Y Theatre, and on WBAI radio. Recently, artslant named her a writer2WATCH. Fractured Hearts and Lurid Details won the Tennessee Williams One Act Play Award at the New Orleans Literary Festival. SqueakyWheel, Buffalo, NY presented Pamela’s 3D-HhoooOWLING poems as a solo show. Performance credits include Ron Athey’s Gifts of the Spirit at Participant INC and a memorable performance with Anna Deavere Smith on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum.

Luis Mojica (Composer & Performer) is an American pianist, composer, and singer. With a three and half octave vocal range, he creates choral-like harmonies that explore themes of sexuality and gender and tell tales of magick, the Earth, and death. Luis pioneered Beat Box Baroque, which marries classical piano melodies and vocal techniques with hip-hop and pop percussion styles. Mr. Mojica lives in New York and is working on his third studio album Wholesome. His first non-solo project will feature a wildly colorful & talented cast of musicians including Melora Creager, Fredo Viola, Ryder Cooley, Rebecca Moore, and Caelan Manning.

Julie Atlas Muz (Performer) is a performance artist, dancer, burlesque artist, stage director, and actress. She held the crowns of the 2006 Miss Exotic World and the 2006 Miss Coney Island pageants. The NY Times calls her “the royalty of burlesque.” Sucker punching boundaries between performance art, dance and burlesque, Julie’s dark, twisted, come-hither performances have secured her place in the underworld of nightlife and the bastions of the art world. With her signature feminist glamour, Julie’s bold and theatrical irreverence combines with the power of dance to shape stories that are beautiful, political, and emotional.

Robert Neopolitan brings experience, technical skill, passion, and a notable calm to his theatre productions that earned him distinction at Marymount California University for Rumors, Festival of One Acts, and Picnic, where he received Academic Excellence in Theater Arts three consecutive years (2012-1014). His production credits include Ghost in the Meadow at The Little Fish Theater (San Pedro, CA) and It’s All in the Mix at All Terrain Theater (Oakland, CA). Robert studied Global Studies and Psychology at Marymount California University.

John (Jack) Nieman (Perfomer), as Jacqueline Jonée, has performed at many prominent venues, including Sardi’s, Laurie Beechman Theatre, Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center, the Friar’s Club, The Duplex, and don’t tell mama. Jack holds an associate degree from the Royal Conservatory of Toronto; B.A. University of Saskatchewan; M.A. Columbia University. Jack studied theatre at the Banff School of Fine Arts and has studied acting with Herbert Berghof, William Hickey and Sandy Dennis at HB studio in New York. Jack is a member of Actor’s Equity and SAG/AFTRA.

Thursday, Dec. 17 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students / Seniors
$10

Estimated Runtime
90 minutes

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Credits

Text by
Pamela Enz

Kinetic Set Design by
Ève L-J

Directed by
Vera Beren

Composer
Luis Mojica

Featuring
Anita Durst
Ève L-J
Julie Atlas Muz
Jack Nieman
with
Shandoah Goldman

Produced by
Jacqueline Jonée

Photo Credit
Grégoire L-J

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