“At the breast of history I sucked and pissed.”
—Jiang Qing, Nixon in China (John Adams, 1987)
House of Flying Boobs is a performance art cabaret interweaving four distinct acts and several visual and performing arts genres: opera, theatre, burlesque and contemporary dance that burrow into a bewildering range of topics: the force of capitalism in Europe’s financial and humanitarian crisis; the sexual and political agency of women from the age of myth and biblical tales to Surrealism and the Cultural Revolution; the fabrication of discourse in the artist interview format.
Featuring: Nadim Abbas, Orit Ben-Shitrit (video artist/choreographer), Rainer Ganahl, Mary Notari (activist/stage actress), Tuo Wang, Mo Zhou (theatre/opera director), among other musicians, designers, composers, and performers. Curated by Xin Wang.
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Nov 12, 2015 Thursday at Nuyorican Poets Café (7:30 pm) | 236 E 3rd St
Nov 16, 2015 Monday at Bowery Poetry Club (6:30pm) | 308 Bowery
Originally conceived and performed in 2012, AUCTIONING OFF THE GREEK DEBT negotiates the European debt crisis by creating a new financial tool—a commodity derivative—by the two most powerful entities in the EU: Germany and France. Three dancers: German, French and Greek enact an abstract financial scenario involving their respective languages. The qualities of the Greek dancer are bundled and sold as commodity derivatives by Germany and France. The performance, now re-staged with an uncanny sense of relevancy, is a set of actions that trigger a chain of responses and interweave/interfere with the cabaret’s various acts. All is told through choreographed movement, combined with language phrases spoken with an Economy of Consonants—a restricted form of communication. The performers punch a time clock to underscore the movement transactions. Dancers: Martina Potratz, Sandra Passirani and Dafni Mari.
Conceived, sound collaged and choreographed by Orit Ben-Shitrit.