It’s not that I have anything against living… ~PLUS~ For DEREK, Chroma 1995 ~PLUS~ DYNASTUD Michael Freeman ~PLUS~ John Zullo ~PLUS~ Doug LeCours

About This Show

A gay, mentally-ill homeless man lives in an in-between place of the present and his abusive past. His reality is a Gothic playground of frightful personal memory, and the media of the 1970s that inspires his visions. He is alone, and ready to accept his losses; It’s not that I have anything against living… is a poignant meditation which is wrought through that uncomfortable place between silence and words.

~PLUS~

For DEREK, Chroma 1995 uses the text of artist and author Derek Jarman’s Chroma: A Book of Colour – June ’93 as a source to investigate concepts of light and color and notions associated with each and how that connects to the color of movement.

~PLUS~

Taking its name from a 1986 gay porn film, DYNASTUD is a solo exploring the complexities of male-male desire and anonymous sex. The work dissects the figure of the dream-boy and the act of cruising through movement, text, and video, presenting the queer male experience as one of subtext and coding. In DYNASTUD, the tube-socked and tan-lined fantasyland of gay porn’s Golden Age is both a utopia and a dystopia. Treading the line between tragedy and comedy, the performer relives sexual experiences both real and imagined in an arresting meditation on desire, loneliness, and intimacy.

About the Artists

It’s not that I have anything against living…

Michael Freeman is the recipient of the Richard Porter Leach Fellowship and also received funding from the Dramatists Guild and the PEN Writers Guild. His play Plans was published by the Secret Theater and has written two screenplays: The Muffin Man and Holding the Roses of Jesus for which he twice received the Nicholas Pekearo Award for Creative Writing. Recent performances: Glasshouse Art Gallery, Abrons Arts Center, HERE Arts Center, Movement Research, Mulberry Theater New Steps Series, Ralph Lee’s Metawee Theater Company, The Box (Club Purgatorio), Joyce Theater Soho, The Hell and Tiny Theater Festivals at the Brick, Toronto Festival of Clowns, Wilmington Delaware Fringe Festival, Pink Inc. BA in Cultural Studies from SUNY Empire State College.

For DEREK, Chroma 1995

Zullo/RawMovement has been performing at various venues in NYC since January 2010. Zullo/RawMovement was presented at the 92nd Street Y, Brooklyn Academy of Music’s EveryBooty Pride event 2016 & 2015 and was selected for FLICfest 2015 at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene. RawMovement has performed at the Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA, at the American Dance Institute in MD, The Greenwich Academy in CT, in New York at the 14th Street Y Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, LaMaMa Theater, Eden’s Expressway at Movement Research, Dixon Place, Ailey Center, City Center Studio 5, Green Space, Theater for the New City as well as the LaMaMa Spoleto Open in Spoleto, Italy.

DYNASTUD

Doug LeCours is a Brooklyn-based artist working in dance, performance, and video. His work has been presented by the Center for Performance Research, Otion Front Studio, Smith College, and at ImPulsTanz through the ATLAS program for emerging choreographers. He collaborates and performs with Sara Gibbons/TALL GIRLS DANCING. He studied dance and creative writing at Middlebury College. His performance credits include dance works by Megan Bascom, Alexandra Beller, Scotty Hardwig, Paul Matteson, Chafin Seymour, Ashley Yergens, and as an ensemble member of Heiner Goebbel’s production of De Materie at the Park Avenue Armory. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Chez Bushwick.

Monday, July 18 at 7:30pm

General Admission

$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Students/Seniors/idNYC

$12

Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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Credits

It’s not that I have anything against living…
Created by
Michael Freeman

Collaborator
Stacy Lynn Smith

For DEREK, Chroma 1995
Created by
Zullo/RawMovement

Collaborators
Bong Dizon, Sarah Eichler, Hana Goldstone, Charles Mulligan, Heidi Morgan & Jillian Sawyer

DYNASTUD
Choreography & text by
Doug LeCours

Photo credits
Alice Klugherz (for Michael Freeman); John Zullo; Alan Kimara Dixon (for Doug LeCours)

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