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From IN Series
THE SONG OF SAKUNTALA
Music by Timothy Nelson
Texts by Sarojini Naidu Rabindranath Tagore, Vidyapati
Direction and Dance by Hari Krishnan
June 19 – 21
With its story taken from India’s most famous dramatic work, Kalidasa’s 5th century play SHAKUNTALA, itself made into an opera by composers such as Alfano and Schubert, this new opera by IN Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson fuses Western baroque instruments with Indian classical instruments to create a “dance-opera” on the themes of love, loss, and redemption. Its libretto is formed from the texts of formational Indian poets from across centuries, as well as the sacred Mahabharata words.
Imagined in the still of a concert of Indian classical music, it promises an evening like a “single song, permutated across the hours, in a mood of evocation and remembrance and longing illuminated by swirling, dizzying aspiration – meditation, yearning, whispering, calling, chanting, talking and touching late into the night.”
Featuring: Aryssa Leigh Burrs, Teresa Ferrara
Showtimes:
June 19 @ 7:00pm
June 20 @ 7:00pm
June 21 @ 2:30pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $35
Students: $25
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ROUND TIME
By In Flight Theater
June 25 – 28
Round Time is a striking and soulful aerial performance born of the urgent present from aerialist, Mara Neimanis (Air Heart, Naomi’s Flight, Swing). With performance partner Morgan Mincer, Neimanis creates a duet for two generations of airborne women, bearing aloft audio testimonies from community voices of women of many ages.
Together, Neimanis and Mincer explore old cycles and new dynamics, as generations of women, 30 years apart, lift one another-fly one another!-in troubled times. Pure visual poetry to make your heart sing.
Created as a commission for The Cherry Arts in NY, with a grant from The National Endowment for The Arts and The NY State Counsel of The Arts. Featuring direction by Claire Marie Mannle (SITI Company) and aerial sculpture by Tim Scofield.
Showtimes:
June 25 @ 7:30pm
June 26 @ 7:30pm
June 27 @ 2:00pm
June 27 @ 7:30pm
June 28 @ 2:00pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Seniors & Artists: $20
Students: $25
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PHARAOH: EGYPT’S WOMAN KING HATSHEPSUT
Written by Tim Hogan
Directed by and Starring Michal Roxie Johnson
August 8
Driven by ambition and a call from the gods, Hatshepsut, a woman who lived 3,500 years ago, defied the odds, claimed the throne from a boy-king, dressed like a man, and ruled patriarchal Ancient Egypt (Kemet) as a female Pharaoh before her memory was nearly erased.
Relive the untold true story of history’s first great woman ruler and her Machiavellian-like rise to power. In an epic biographical One-Woman play featuring a tour-de-force performance by actress Michal Roxie Johnson, embodying 18 distinct roles across every age, class, and gender, the work speaks to universal themes of womanhood, gender identity, and empowerment once thought lost to the sands of time…
Showtime:
August 8 @ 2:00pm
August 8 @ 8:00pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Seniors & Artists: $20
Students: $15
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