The(International)HomeTheaterFestival2013April5toMay31
MontrealOaklandSanFrancisco
BerkeleyMinneapolisDallas
WesthamptonPhiladelphia
BaltimoreBostonNigeria
ChicagoTallahasseeBrooklyn
(We're still accepting shows. Submit yours here.)
Jacqueline van de Geer
Montreal, Canada
Thurs 4/19, 8pm and 10pm
Fri 4/20, 8pm and 10pm
Sat 4/21, 8pm and 10pm
@La Florian
For address: jacquelinevandegeer@gmail.com
$7.99
La Guerre-The War
bilingual-movement-text-manipulation des objets
Mémoires de ma jeunesse, mon père, la guerre qui était toujours la, la paix entre nous tous, les poupées négresses et l'amour des esprits forme une conte hallucinante pour adultes.
Memories of my youth, my dad, the war who was always there, black dolls and the love of ghosts form a
hallucinating fairy-tale for adults
Take your chance and see an Orange-Eyes show for the happy few!
www.orange-eyes.weebly.com
"I did this last year and I had a blast as well as my friends and it was a great way to make a show that is ready to be put in a suitcase and to be performed everywhere! Most of all I could finally be a siren at 53 years old!"
Kyra Rice
Oakland, CA
Sat 5/4. 8pm
@The Merriewood Bunker
5849 Merriewood Drive
Oakland, CA 94611
$10 (no one turned away)
"The HTF is about an attention, an intentional choosing of the way we think about our circumstances... A declaration, a knowing that that there is enough and that we are so much more than enough. We are AWESOME!"
Marc-André Casavant
Montreal, Canada
Sun 4/7, 1pm and 4pm
Sun 4/14, 1pm and 4pm
Sun 4/21, 1pm and 4pm
Sun 4/28, 1pm and 4pm
@Other Space
To RSVP: marc3429@gmail.com
To RSVP: marc3429@gmail.com
$10
FONTAINE...
Performance
écrite, mise en scène et défendue par l'artiste interdisciplinaire Marc-André
Casavant depuis 2008.
Nom du
personnage : DISCOSALOPE, c'est lui, elle,
toi, moi, nous.
Mélange de
poésie-trash, théâtre expérimental et mouvement incluant interactions avec le
public.
Une
proposition artistique dérangeante et sans compromis sur la folie de la société
d'hyper-consommation.
Durée : 25
minutes.
Lachine
NEVER SAY NEVER
Written, direct and perform by Marc-André Casavant since 2008
Character's name: DISCOSALOPE
A mix of spoken word poetry, experimental theater and movements including interactions with the audience. This piece runs 25 minutes.
A disturbing art proposition about overconsumption in society without any compromise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvRQVlYYBI
"It's still really important for me that professional art and artists stay accessible. I've always liked doing things differently. We could do shows everywhere. I'm rebelling against the fact that you have to be well-known to be considered as you deserved in the theater circle in Montreal."
Peter Max Lawrence
San Francisco, USA
Sat 4/27, 8pm
The Tornado Theater
1903 Golden Gate Ave
San Francisco, CA 94115
$6.99
For info: petermaxlawrence@gmail.com
“I love to HTF because for some reason people have demanded a follow-up to my ‘show’ last year.”
Rae Maitland
Montreal, Canada
Fri 5/3, 4pm and 8pm
Sat 5/4, 4pm and 8pm
@Backdoor Lookout
For address: raeannamaitland@gmail.com
$4 big ones
I want to bring together a group of talented actors, take verbatim interviews and create comical, juicy pieces about the city we live in using character impersonation and storytelling.
“I'm not really rebelling most of the time. Most of the time I am trying really hard to fit in, but I want to perform and I want to do so in my kitchen.”
Benjamin Kamino
Montreal, Canada
Fri 5/3, 9:30pm
@THE BARNABAS CENTRE FOR KINETIC RESEARCH
For address: bbk219@gmail.com
Pay what you can
The other - polygon
The performance is an aspect of a larger frame of research into 'otherness' - searching for an other within classical polemic arguments. The research itself maintains a distance to the performance work establishing a spaces of otherness within the work itself. A shifting choreography of estrangement between objects over a period of time. there will be a party afterwards.
"I love the home theatre because sometimes love is hard to come by. I don't really rebel too much."
Martin Schwartz
San Francisco, CA
Thurs 4/25, 8pm
Fri 4/26, 8pm
@The Mysterious Black Forest of Schwartz
To RSVP: http://stormstresslenzhtf.eventbrite.com/
Pay What You Can
Poison. Inexplicable, instant love. Crawling into the wrong bed. Lots and lots of fainting. If this all sounds melodramatic, that's because it is. Welcome to the weirdly emotional world of Sturm und Drang (“storm and stress”), 18th century Germany’s gift to the theatre. StormStressLenz looks at four plays by J. M. R. Lenz, the movement’s strangest author, selects 30 insanely dramatic bits, freshly translates them, shuffles them up, and puts them onstage grossly out of context. Performers anticipated include Dark Porch Theatre co-director Margery Fairchild (www.darkporchtheatre.com), Ryan Hayes, Schwartz himself, and Meg Hurtado. Additional guests are expected.
"Well, to be honest, I don't want to be accused of employing the term ‘nervous breakdown’ frivolously, so I won't describe my psychological landscape as of March, 2012, when I came back from leading my little theatre company on a tour to Phoenix. So instead of using the term, I'll just give the facts. The trip culminated four and a half years of incessant theatrical activity, writing/directing or co-writing/directing six world-premiere shows in that time, and I was left totally broke, indebted, much aged, cruddy-looking, with horrible teeth, and unable to ride the BART due to seriously anxious feelings. (The show was chosen by the Phoenix New Times as #6 on a ten best list around two weeks ago, which was nice, but didn't really heal the damage. The festival, I won't mention the name, actually SPENT all our box office money and committed several other crazed displays of hopeless incompetence that have actually induced laughter in outsiders.) After nearly a year of healthful eating, meditation, high wine consumption, and mindful concentration on what I actually do well, which is writing plays, I have come to realize that what drove me batty was the process of producing work, and all the crap that goes under that label. Venue rental, scheduling, marketing, press releases, marketing emails, hiring and managing designers, grant applications, budgets, begging people for money, blah blah blah. In short, the institutionality. This stuff is really expensive and, for me, unpleasant. I've been inspired by the artists behind HTF since the beginning, admiring and envying the determination simply to do the work outside of any institutional setting, but I always told myself that performance is different from theatre, and that the art form I practice demands resources. While that may ultimately be true, inspired by Philip and all the others, I say: screw it. Let's see what we can do on our own before we grovel any further."
Helen Simard
Montreal, Canada
Sat 4/27, 8pm
@The Doghouse (Helen and Roger’s house)
This event is invite-only
Helen Simard and Roger White present "Pot Luck Artistique", an evening of fine dining and artistic exchange. Each night, 15 artists will be invited to attend a dinner party at Simard and White's home; every guest will be asked to bring a dish and an artistic proposition or performance to share with the other guests. Performances might be formally introduced or take place unannounced and perhaps unnoticed. Either way, over the course of the evening exchanges will be made over a glass of wine, a good meal, and lively conversation!
“We're sick of the division between performer and spectator. We're tired of the division between artistic disciplines. But most of all, we're sick and tired of having to leave our house to see a show!”
Jennifer Gwirtz
San Francisco, CA, USA
Fri 5/10, 8pm
Sat 5/11, 8pm
@Due West Salon
5000 California St. #104
San Francisco, CA 94118
Sliding Scale $8-$12
Questions: admin@performancelab.org
"dances for small spaces" is a chock-full evening of mini-scale work by San Francisco choreographers, Evangel King, Sophie Needelman, and other fine local talent, including Right Brain Performancelab, presenting brand new material for their 10th Anniversary Season as a work-in-progress.
“Sustainable theater is the future!”
Tranna Wintour
Montreal, Canada
Sat 4/20, 8:30p
@The Cristal Connors Center for the Performing Arts
This event is invite-only.
Donation, proceeds will go to the Douglas Hospital in memory of Antoinette Martella
Questions may go to: trannawintour@gmail.com
Tranna Wintour stars in 'I Am No Man: A One Gender Non-conformist Show ' that sees gender, love, sexuality, fashion and pop culture collide in an explosive one-night-only event.
www.trannawintour.blogspot.com
“I love the Home Theater Festival because I think the idea of creating a show in your own home and inviting people to come see it is just beautiful. As artists we are part of a community and the Home Theater Festival celebrates that idea in a way I've never seen before. In putting this show together, I am rebelling against my own fears and insecurities when it comes to live performance. I was born a performer, but for many years I suppressed that part of myself. I am ready to break free.”
Yemi Akintokun
Ibadan, Nigeria
Fri 4/12 to Fri 4/19
@My Yard (University of Ibadan, behind First Bank, Oyo St. Nigeria.)
Yes, make it public.
$7
Info: Yemiakintokun@gmail.com
The king did not hang.an historical tragedy of legendary King Sango (god of thunder and lightning) who out of anger emitted fire and slayed his people. realizing this and out of frustration he committed suicide by hanging himself. His subjects came and refuted that claim saying the king did not hang himself.
“Donkey years of theatre and theatrics conventions!”
All Terrain Theater
Berkeley, CA
Fri 4/5, 8pm
Sat 4/6, 2pm, 8pm
Fri 4/12, 8pm
Sat 4/13, 8pm
@The Downward Dog
$6.99
RSVP: info@allterraintheater.org
Tickets: http://catladies.brownpapertickets.com/
All Terrain Theater
Women in Solodarity: Cat Ladies
All Terrain Theater's Women in Solodarity: Cat Ladies is a showcase featuring female solo performances in honor of our quirky obsession with cats. This show, produced in association with the International Home Theater Festival, is All Terrain Theater's second showcase dedicated to promoting the work of female Bay Area theater artists. Featuring Rachel Bublitz, Maura Halloran, Theresa Donahoe, Patricia Milton, Martha Rynberg, Carol Lashof, Heather Kellogg, Rachel Bublitz, Ramya Vijayan, Susan Sobeloff, Colleen Egan, Tracy Held Potter, Colleen Egan, and Chelsey Little. This performance will be held at a private residence in Central Berkeley. Reserve your tickets for the address to our venue. Please note that there are cats and a dog on the property, and cats may be roaming around during the performances on April 12th and 13th. The show is approximately 90 minutes and is wheelchair accessible.
“We're rebelling against the lack of female stories and opportunities in the media by producing a show featuring women and their interests. We love that the HTF makes theater accessible to artists and to members of the community.”
Joy Mariama Smith
Philadelphia, PA
Sat 4/20, 8pm
Sun 4/21, 8pm
@Awesome Haus
For address: joytoy13@hotmail.com
$5
Joy Mariama Smith host an evening of elevated Art from belligerent candy-ass queers entitled: "Queer as in Fuck You!"
"I am rebelling against the following:
1. The same bougie white people getting funded to make mediocre art.
2. Being asked to work on projects because of my skin color or my tits.
3. Being rejected from venues because the art I make cannot be easily categorized.
4. Being called ""emerging"" one more time.
5. Being denied when I offer to assist in diversifying a performance venue, residency, or collective.
6. Fear and Doubt.
I love the Home Theater Festival because:
1. It's sexy
2. I can be and make whateverthefuckiwant, and feel empowered and supported.
3. It challenges the notion of ""venue"" ""Art"" and ""Artist"" like a rockstar.
4. It does not take away my Agency.
5. It's fucking RAD."
Oakland Nights...Live!
Oakland, CA
Sat 4/13, 8pm
Sat 5/11, 8pm
@ The Nimitz Theater
2141 Broadway in Oakland at 22nd Street (19th St BART)
Free!
Oakland's very own late night talk show!
April Episode: HACKERS!
May Episode: THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS OUT OF ORDER!
Description: Part Johnny Carson, Part Saturday Night Live, Part Variety show, All Oakland (or maybe bay area)! Every month we feature more than a dozen scientists, comedians, activists, musicians, dancers, techies, puppeteers, queens, foodies and designers. Each performs or presents a small part of what makes the Oakland Bay Area a concentrate of creative energy.
Plus:
Live call-ins!
Our very own House Band!
The Oakland Skyline!
and Two Lovely hosts - Jeremy and Julie!
You can't wait to save this date!
"we love our show! we love other home theater impresarios! we love theater!
we're rebelling against quiet neighbors! we're rebelling against people having to pay for shit! we're rebelling against professionalism!"
Billy Mullaney
Minneapolis, MN
Tues 4/2 to Fri 5/31
@My Childhood Home/Yours*
$6.99 and reciprocation**
"""I Take You to My Childhood Home"" is a ritual performance exchange pact between myself and individual audience members, all of whom agree to a blindfolded tour of my childhood home, in exchange for giving me the same, at theirs. The format proposes to re-introduce each guide to a hyperfamiliar space through the impossible task of describing it to a blindfolded outsider.
*Due to the nature of the performance, (both) appointments must be negotiated individually throughout the course of the festival by contacting the artist at billymullaney@gmail.com
**All audience must deliver a similar tour to the artist"
“Who has the keys? Theater artists are simultaneously the laborers, the labor, and the means of production. Requiring shows to have institutions is like requiring birds to ride planes. Big, shitty planes that don't go where or when you want them to, only have room for so many birds, and pick stupid birds anyway. With stupid pilots.”
Bianca Cabrera, Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA
Sat 4/6, 7-10pm
@ Blind Tiger Headquarters
1114 Linden Street, Oakland, CA 94110
$15
Info: a2bc@heybianca.com
Calling all hedons, (dance) lovers, movers, shakers and rebels for a night of unbridled bacchanalian extravagance. Blind Tiger Society is throwing the irreverent and audacious performance ball of the season.
Spend a vivacious and sparkling night with the charming debutantes of Blind Tiger Society as we dance throughout the beautiful old Victorian West Oakland home that is our headquarters. Nosh with us, knock back with us, raise a glass for us, and trip on the light fantastic.
Dances to titillate, libations to lubricate, music to move you and company to inspire you all await! Witness dance as a rebellious declaration of pleasure and delight.
www.facebook.com/BlindTigerSociety
“We rebel against the grain of traditionally staged contemporary dance, justifying the willful suspension of theatrical edifice. We make everything from scratch. By hand, foot, heart, soul, mouth and mind. We cultivate it for each other, strangers, neighbors, friends, those with inhibition and those without. We deliver fast, hard and heavy and we will see you under the table.”
Laurel Butler
Oakland, CA
Thur 5/9, 8pm
Fri 5/10, 8pm
Sat 5/11, 8pm
Fri 5/10, 8pm
Sat 5/11, 8pm
@Field of Pieces
1036 Warfield, Oakland CA
$5
Info: Laurelbutler@gmail.com
There is, or was once, a woman in rural Oklahoma, and I can see what she sees - the laundry, the dishes, and the horribly beautiful creatures in the wilderness beyond her home. "Wild Beasts Sleep in my Forest" is a series of songs strung together with poetic testament to this woman’s mystic visions, tormented yearning, and delicate unrest.
“Can we be intimate?! Can we be sincere?! Can we be radically honest?! Can we strip ourselves of this artifice and pretense?! Can we remember a time of dancing in streets and kitchens, singing in bars and bedrooms, when ceremony and ritual were woven into the fabric of things rather than relegated to obscure and commodified black boxes?”
Fifty Seven Hundred
Baltimore, MD
Fri 5/10, 8pm
Sat 5/11, 8pm
@ The Attic
To RSVP: susan.stroupe@gmail.com
Free
"3 Ways to Leave Baltimore" is a performance created by Andrea Crnkovic, Sarah Lloyd, and Susan Stroupe. Jumping off from traditions of departure, we are each saying goodbye to a time, a city, and the people we spent it with. We're performing in the attic of the house that was our home in many different ways.
The attic is the place where we store the past, the present, and the future. Come experience all this with you. Bring your baggage with you. We'll give you ours.
“A theater festival focused on the home is the best idea. There's a non-theatrical history stored in the walls of our house, and all the ghosts that have lived here are part of this performance. If anything, we're rebelling against the idea that theater has to be done in a theater. Plus, where are you going to find a theater space that looks like an attic?”
Josianne Latreille and Emilie Morin
Montreal, Canada
Wed 04/17, 8pm
Sat 04/20, 8pm
Wed 04/24, 8pm
Thur 04/25, 8pm
Wed 05/01, 8pm
@Chez Josianne ou Chez Emilie?
To RSVP: mieliemorin@hotmail.com
$11
«Malheureusement, Emilie et Josianne seront absentes»
Dance performers: Josianne Latreille, Emilie Morin
Choreographers: Sarah-Ève Grant, Catherine Tardif
Rencontre entre deux femmes chorégraphes et deux femmes danseuses
ou
Comment les objets du quotidien, utiles ou désuets, métamorphosent les protagonistes : redéfinition des actions, influence des trajectoires, transformation des relations, poétisation du corps dans l’espace et démonstration d’activités paranormales.
(The best translation we came up with)
The encounter of 2 female choreographers and 2 female dancers
Or
How the everyday objects, useful or outdated, metamorphose the protagonists: redefinition of actions, influence of trajectories, transformation of relations, poetizing the body in space and demonstration of paranormal activities.
“The Home Theater Festival gave us the impulse to finally work together again. It is a unique opportunity that allows us to build our project from scratch, with no boundaries, except the one we choose on our own. It is very exciting to think we are part of this vibrant, bold event.”
Evita Cortez
Dallas, Texas
Sat 5/25
@BLK LDG
This event is invite-only.
$5
For info: evita.cort@gmail.com
Performance Art, Experimental music,
Video Art by Christine Hoang, Hannah Weir, Evita Cortez
“we love direct art”
Perra Pumps
Seth Lepore
Westhampton, MA
Sat 5/25,
6pm
Sun 5/26,
6pm
@The
Westhampton Tree House
To RSVP: seth[at]sethums[dot]com
$7-$10
sliding scale
The Seth
Lepore Project presents "Yes, Westhampton Exists." Most people who
live in Northampton and Easthampton, MA don't even know that Westhampton is
right next to them.
Using Seth's
house and property (it's a rental, don't raise your eyebrows) as the backdrop,
the audience will get to know a plethora of characters that live in this rural,
dry (alcohol-less), somewhat red-necky town. From crystal-touting, back to the
earth hippies to gun-slinging curmudgeons who mumble uninformed slurs, the
audience will follow characters around as they wax poetic about their unique
perspectives on living in the sticks.
Promises to
be hysterical, heart-wrenching and thought steeping.
“I live in the world between self-producing and courting arts
presenters constantly. To say that it is exhausting would be kind. I’m willing
to play the game of grants, fundraising and educational outreach but my true
love is just about performing with no agenda. I like writing full length shows
for traditional black box settings, but I get charged up about having a
skeletal structure, some loose ideas about my characters but really no idea
what the hell they are going to say until they start talking. I’ve been wanting
to be a part of this for years but always had some deadline or other obligation
in the way. It’s nice to be able to say ‘what the fuck, let’s just make this
shit happen’ and see how it goes.”
Lily Taylor
Dallas Fort Worth, TX
Sun 4/28, 8pm
@Moncayo
Drive
To RSVP: lily.taylor.music
[at] gmail.com xoLT
$1-$5
suggested donation
In The Mix -
A multi-media showcase of DFW talents.
More information
at www.lilytaylormusic.com
Prints by
Nevada Hill
http://www.nevadahill.com
Ceramic
works by Lindsey Bass
Video by
Belau Muluc
Video and
sculpture by Sean Miller
http://vimeo.com/user11115239
Electo-accoustic
performance by Martin Back
http://about.me/martin_back
Experimental
music/ performance art duo Ulnae http://ulnaemusic.com
Aural
architect Juicy The Emissary
http://juicytheemissary.com
and more TBA Sunday, April 28, 2013
door at 8
show at 9
entry
between acts after 9pm
BYOB
“The DFW art community is growing fast. Large
scale development of Arts Districts in both Dallas and Ft. Worth, music
festivals, gallery openings every Friday, video festivals, the Mayor of Dallas
just declared an Art Week, etc... It is important to keep emerging artists in the
conversation as the arts community develops. It is also important to showcase
line-ups that would never be seen at commercial venues. The International Home
Theater Festival provides the perfect platform to do just that. Throwing a show
in your home allows for a mix of talents that audiences and gallery-goers will
not be able to experience all together, anywhere else in the DFW Metroemess. We
are the scene; let's develop this together.”Perra Pumps
Oakland, CA
Sat 4/20, 8pm
and 9pm
@La Casa
Puro Guerra
To RSVP: pinchiejavie@gmail.com
Perra Pumps
Presents "Gorda pero No Pendeja"
An evening
of new monologues and vignettes performed for the first time in front of an
audience.
“What a genius idea! I'm very excited to participate for the
first time.”
Naked Empire Bouffon Company
Jennifer Marie Hoff
Naked Empire Bouffon Company
San Francisco, CA
Fri 5/24,
8pm
@Main Street
Theatre/The Dutch Oven
915 Cayuga
Ave, San Francisco, CA 94112
$15-$20
For info: nathaniel@nakedempirebouffon.org
Winner of
BEST OF THE SAN FRANCISCO FRINGE FESTIVAL, this original production features
two grotesque anti-clowns mocking our relationship with death and its most
famous messenger, Hamlet. Improvisation and audience participation feature
prominently in the show as these two prophetic pranksters react to the dead
body of Prince Hamlet and use it to play a disturbingly hilarious set of games
based on one theme: denying mortality. No prior knowledge of Shakespeare’s
Hamlet necessary. Simply bring your deep discomfort with dying and prepare for
a 60-minute deathmatch.
“Naked
Empire Bouffon Company deliver the goods in unexpected ways in You Killed
Hamlet, or Guilty Creatures Sitting At A Play. It’s vile and provocative, but
it’s also a very sly, smart commentary on a culture busily amusing itself as it
slides off this mortal coil, too afraid to talk about serious things, and too
busy dumbing itself down.” -John Marcher, A Beast In A Jungle
“We love farting. But
people don't fart in theaters, they fart at home. We love the Home Theater
Festival because it allows us to invite folks into our lil Dutch Oven. Fuck
theater. Viva Dutch Ovens!” Jennifer Marie Hoff
Oakland, CA
Sat 4/27,
6:30p
@The Nimitz
Theatre
2141
Broadway, Oakland, CA (entrance on 22nd)
For info: roaringoctopus@gmail.com
Free
A
works-in-progress showing of "Something in a circle -- this life makes no
sense -- strong swimmer": a group piece/dance installation score. The
performers investigate the seemingly simple directive: go in a circle. We
become infinite, we become galaxies, we become math equations, meccas, vertigo,
hamsters, perimeters, diamonds.
“HTC is forever, HTC is infinite, HTC keeps it real.”
Mandoline
Hybride
Montreal, Canada
Wed 5/29
Thurs 5/30
Fri 5/31
Sat 6/1
@La Maison,
de la cave au grenier
$25,
including dinner and wine
Afin de
souligner son 5e anniversaire, Mandoline Hybride orchestre une soirée où se côtoient
gastronomie, vidéo-danse et performance.
Pour
l'occasion, la Mandoline vous reçoit chez elle et investigue les lieux de la
maison: le cocon, lieu sûr et familier; de la cave au grenier, les angoisses et
les souvenirs; ses portes et ses fenêtres, pour inviter et pour fuir; ses
entre-baillements et ses escaliers, chemins vers l’intimité préservée.
Au menu:
1) Cinq
tapas gastronomiques accompagnés de vin, cuisinés par Dominique Bolduc / Five
gastronomic tapas accompanied with wine
2)
Chorégraphes invités/guest choreographers: Manuel Roque, Katie Ward, Priscilla
Guy...et invités surprise/ and surprise guests!
3)
Interprètes/dancers: Emilie Morin, Priscilla Guy
4)
Vidéo-danses présentées/video-dances presented: Private I's (Israël, Dana
Ruttenberg & Oren Shkedy) + Fragile (Barcelone, Ricardo Salas)
In order to
celebrate its 5th anniversary, Mandoline Hybride orchestrates an evening of
gastronomy, performance and video-dance.
Investigating
the house choreographically through its evocative spaces, the journey brings
you from the kitchen to the living room, the cupboards to the corridor, the intimate
and the shared spaces.
“Selon Mandoline Hybride, le Home Theater Festival est à la
fois un acte de volonté créative et un acte de résistance. C'est ce qui fait
son charme.
According to Mandoline Hybride, the Home Theatre Festival is
both a creative and a resistance act. That is why it is so compelling.”
Found Dance
Theater
San Francisco, CA
Fri 5/17,
6:30pm and 8:30 pm
@Baker’s
Dozen
To RSVP: elizabethpjcooper@gmail.com
Found Dance
Theater is excited to premiere their first work, “Something about Dust and
History,” at the 2013 Home Theater Festival. Found Dance Theater is a
collective of emerging Bay Area dance artists who aim to collaboratively create
unique, inspiring, and thought provoking performances. The audience is invited
to walk through their premiere work, “Something about Dust and History.” In
this site specific piece inspired by the history and character of “Baker’s
Dozen, ” a San Francisco cooperative living space established in the 1950s, the
performers explore place versus space, use versus misuse, and community
dynamics.
“We love the HTF because it gave us the impetus to create our
own work together. We create this work less as an act of rebellion and more as
a celebration of the omnipresence of art in our daily lives. ‘We believe we can
do big things with no money.’”
Cat Scratch
Theater
Boston (Dorchester), MA
Sat 5/11,
6pm
@Cat Scratch
Theater
40 Stock
Street
For info: londonbridgez@gmail.com
Cat Scratch
Theater presents" A cabaret mix of spoken word poetry, acoustic music and
queer revelry. The evening will feature spoken word artist London Bridgez &
a cast of queer misfits.
I am rebelling against every promoter who wants me to tone
down my performance. I am rebelling against every venue who charges too much
for indie artists to host events or requires a 900 person draw to be considered
a booking. Art must be set free and this MUST first happen in our homes to
create a tribe of creative gladiators and champions.
Philip Huang
Berkeley, CA
Fri 5/17, 9pm
Sat 5/18,
9pm
Sun 5/19,
9pm
@Dana Street
Theater
2446 Dana
St. #2 (at Dwight, near Amoeba Records on Telegraph)
$6-$10 (or
whatever you can pay)
Pussy Quiet,
starring Philip Huang, directed by Theo Knox.
“I’m rebelling against my own lack of motivation. I’m standing in solidarity with all my
brothers and sisters in the Home Theater Movement. No one’s coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. I’m making a show, and the whole world’s
invited.”
Alex Hovi and Erkki Paunonen
Tallahassee, FL
Thurs 5/2, 8pm
@F102
For info: alex.hovi@yahoo.com
Free
Alex Hovi and Erkki Paunonen present "Loaf," a one-night-only
duet performance piece, for one audience member. We'll have fun. We'll inspire.
We'll laugh. We'll maybe cry. Be chosen here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9D7MP2K
“We love the Home Theater Festival because we
can do what we want, with who we want, and how we want it. We're rebelling
against the social conventions of the theatre, the expectations of the audience
member, what theatre is, and the people who are telling us what it should be.
We are makers of art and friendship.”
Adam Sussman
Berkeley, CA
Sat 6/15, 7:00p
Sun 6/16, 7:00p
@Parker Street Odditorium
2310 Parker Street Berkeley CA 94704
$10
BACKYARD DREAM
A breezy "Midsummer Night's Dream" in a backyard from the
crew that brought you "BACKYARD DICK" and "ARMCHAIR VANYA."
Expect transformations, music, puppets, projections, and men with donkey heads.
Organic Monkey
Chicago, IL
Fri 5/21, 9p
@ECO
2042 w 21st
Yes, make it public.
$10
For info: Organicmonkeyimprov@gmail.com
Organic Monkey is an improv group presenting improv as only the south
side can.
"We love home theater because we are showing the
world that theater can be done anywhere, doesn't have to break the bank either"
B.J. Dini
Brooklyn, NY
Thurs 5/30, 8pm
@The Monolithic Art Shaman Loft
+++LA GROTTA+++ IN BUSHWICK NEXT TO THE CEMETERY WITH THE FRESH PILE OF CORPSES +++LETS GET RESURRECTED+++ \\\\\\
HOSTED + CURINGLY NARRATED WITH A NEW MULTIMEDIUM WORD SIGIL BY <<<>>
ALONGSIDE COHOSTS COCONSPIRATORS SISTERS-IN-ARMS
<<>> AND <<>>
SONIC EJACULATIONS BY THE MASKED MAN HIMSELF
<<>>
RESIDENT PHOTOEYEBALL
<<>>
MASTER OF SPACES AND CEREMONIES
<<>>
VISUAL TRIPSHOW BY OUR FAVORITE ANGEL
<<>>
##################
INCLUDING COLLECTIVE UNEARTHINGS BY THE LIKES OF
^^^^WILD TORUS
^^^^DOORWAYS LE SPHINX
^^^^ANA LIEBERMAN + LINDSEY LEONARD
^^^^LADY SIMON
^^^^JON KONKOL
^^^^RICHARD KENNEDY
^^^^ATHENA LLEWELLYN BARAT
^^^^TYLER STONE
^^^^SULIE SUSAN ROGER-THAT
Gerard Reyes featuring Bronzé
Montréal, Canada
Fri 5/24, 6:30 and 7p
Sat 5/25, 6:30p and 7p
@Espace Saint-André
1881, Saint-André Street [corner of Ontario]
Montréal, QC,
H2L 3T9
[Berri-UQAM metro station]
$5 (beverage included)
"Fine Tranny Ass"
Choreographed and performed by:
Gerard Reyes featuring Bronzé
A dance piece inspired by CitiBar, the notorious Montreal nightspot
that caters to male-to-female transsexuals and the blue collar men who love
them. Fine Tranny Ass draws from striptease competitions, hip hop videos and
90s vogue balls to honour the often marginalized gendered elements of
contemporary life.
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Fine Tranny Ass
Une danse androgyne inspirée et exaltante!
Chorégraphie et interprétation:
Gerard Reyes avec Bronzé
Cette pièce s'inspire de CitiBar, un club montréalais réputé pour
accueillir des transsexuels MtF et leurs admirateurs. Fine Tranny Ass est une
danse influencée par les compétitions de striptease, les vidéos hip-hop et les
bals vogue des années 90, mettant ainsi à l'honneur certaines facettes de la
vie contemporaine trop souvent marginalisées.
vendredi le 24 mai - 18h30 et 19h00
samedi le 25 mai - 18h30 et 19h00
entrée 5$ (boisson offerte)
“I am rebelling against gender-normative
behavior”
Bête Sauvage
Montréal, Canada
Sat 5/18
@Salons de l'est
Les adresses seront fournies lors de votre inscription à l'événement:
http://salonsdelest.eventbrite.fr/
contribution volontaire
Il sera aussi possible de réserver une place à notre resto clandestin,
une exclusivité du parcours. 12$ payable en argent comptant, sur place
uniquement, écrivez à: salonsdelest@gmail.com
Pour plus d'infos sur le contenu du parcours:
www.salonsdelest.wix.com/infos
Bête Sauvage propose un parcours de spectacles intimistes dans le salon
des artistes d'Hochelaga. Salons de l'est, c'est donc le rassemblement d'une
quinzaine de créateurs qui vous partageront leur art dans leur intimité. D'un
appartement à un autre, en marchant dans les ruelles, on découvrira Hochelaga
de l'est vers l'ouest avec ses cordes à linges et ses courts arrières. On y
verra les photos de l'un, on y entendra l'univers sonore de l'autre, en passant
par le salon ou parfois par le perron de danseurs, de musiciens, d’artistes visuels
et de performeurs.
Le tout, contribution volontaire, simple comme bonjour.
“Bête Sauvage aime créer et encourager des
actions hors de l’industrie actuelle du spectacle, par conviction d’autonomie
et par rébellion anti-compétition.
Le Home Theater Festival permet des rencontres
et des rassemblements dans un contexte empreint de véridicité.
Y participer, c’est appuyer l’audace du vrai et
la critique du faux, du plaqué, de la superficie empruntée.”
B.J. Dini
Brooklyn, NY
Thurs 5/30, 8pm
@The Monolithic Art Shaman Loft
+++LA GROTTA+++ IN BUSHWICK NEXT TO THE CEMETERY WITH THE FRESH PILE OF CORPSES +++LETS GET RESURRECTED+++ \\\\\\
HOSTED + CURINGLY NARRATED WITH A NEW MULTIMEDIUM WORD SIGIL BY <<<>>
ALONGSIDE COHOSTS COCONSPIRATORS SISTERS-IN-ARMS
<<
SONIC EJACULATIONS BY THE MASKED MAN HIMSELF
<<
RESIDENT PHOTOEYEBALL
<<
MASTER OF SPACES AND CEREMONIES
<<
VISUAL TRIPSHOW BY OUR FAVORITE ANGEL
<<
##################
INCLUDING COLLECTIVE UNEARTHINGS BY THE LIKES OF
^^^^WILD TORUS
^^^^DOORWAYS LE SPHINX
^^^^ANA LIEBERMAN + LINDSEY LEONARD
^^^^LADY SIMON
^^^^JON KONKOL
^^^^RICHARD KENNEDY
^^^^ATHENA LLEWELLYN BARAT
^^^^TYLER STONE
^^^^SULIE SUSAN ROGER-THAT