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.
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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.
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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.
Monday, July 18 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Students/Seniors/idNYC
$12
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)