The moment a castrato utters his first note, he outs himself to his bemused onlookers. His strangely shrill voice undoubtedly pegs him as a castrated being, engineered for (and doomed to) a life of performance and impotence.
Leveraging a grand gesture toward this bygone tradition, Pourzal cuts into the fixities and mutabilities of performing his selves for others, of pre-forming others for himself.
While considering the castrato against larger histories of marking bodies (as raced, gendered, etc.) in the construction of power, his mixed-race fagginess does the looking and the uttering: everything is fixed, and nothing is restored.
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Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal: Mix Fix (Dick No Balls)
First Preview: Oct 11, 2018
Opening Date: Oct 25, 2018
Closing Date: Oct 27, 2018
Running Time: 01:15
Playing @
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway (53A Chambers St), New York City, NY 10007
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
Performance Schedule
THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
Written By
- Kareem Alexander - dramaturgical dialogue
Choreography
- Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal
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Full-price tickets:
$15.00 - $20.00
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