LA LIGA DE LA DECENCIA Performance

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

Determined by each audience member. Audience members will receive a ticket voucher and will be notified when it is their time to view the performance.

PERFORMANCES

April 3 at 6:00 p.m.

April 4 at 6:00 p.m.

April 5 at 6:00 p.m.

April 6 at 6:00 p.m.

Contains mature content including language, partial nudity and strobe effects. Suitable for ages 17+.

La Liga de la Decencia combines live performance (cabaret) and video art to explore the following question: How do WWII era politics continue to affect the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico today? Through their whimsical costumes, irreverent jokes and sensuous dances, La Liga de la Decencia‘s entertainers invite the audience to come, sit down and relax in this atmosphere of social and gender transgression.

How revealing will the vendette’s costumes be? Who will the comedians target in their jokes? Will the latest political events be discussed? Or will they try to distract the audience with dance, lights and spectacle? Moreover, what are the entertainers trying to distract the audience from? And what exactly is going on beyond the walls of the cabaret during a time of political instability for two neighboring countries?

PROJECT LEAD

Jessica Peña

Torres

LOCATION

WIN 2.180

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME 60 minutes

PERFORMANCES

April 3 at 1:30 p.m.

April 4 at 5:30 p.m.

April 5 at 9:00 p.m.

Contains mature content including partial nudity, erotic movement, profanity, mention of racial violence and forced disappearances in Latin America.

In this project, we take a “Latinx” spin on the variety show that today takes different forms in Latin American and United States television. With the pretense of doing “entertainment,” we use the show as a platform for International Students to talk about relevant issues related to their countries of origin in Latin America and the practices that bring them joy and help them thrive. The multimedia piece combines a live host and a video component. The host invites their collaborators to take the screen while cheering the audience and asking some people on stage to rehearse practices of joy. Because many of us did not use the words “Latino/a/x/e” until we migrated to the States, an underline conversation will be around our opinions on the label.

PROJECT LEAD siri gurudev

LOCATION

WIN 2.180

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

45 minutes

PERFORMANCES

April 5 at 6:30 p.m.

April 7 at 2:00 p.m.

Contains mature content including language, simulated nudity and themes of sexuality.

An immersive art installation and multimedia performance centering queer exploration and an inquisition into why we embrace and abstract feminine presentations of ourselves. Viewers are invited to witness and experience the installation in a gallery-like structure. One side of the room hosts a large canvas to collaboratively paint and draw on, while the other side of the room displays a pole dance short film playing on loop for spectators to enjoy at their own pace. At various scheduled times throughout the festival, the installation will be activated by live performance. These scenes of live performance operate in the center of the room while the installation remains in place.

PROJECT LEADS

Micah Senter

Aida Hernandez Reyes

LOCATION

WIN B.202

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

Installation is accessible throughout the week from 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. with periodic performances lasting between 30 and 60 minutes.

PERFORMANCES

April 5 at 6:00 p.m.

April 5 at 8:00 p.m.

April 7 at 10:00 a.m.

Contains mature content and themes including language and themes of sexual/familial violence.

More Blackberries, Please is a restaging of Crystal Wilkinson’s novel Blackberries, Blackberries through a Black Feminist lens. Infused with humor, sadness and honesty, this collection of performance vignettes features stories reminiscent of blackberries-–-small, succulent morsels of Black Appalachian life that are inviting and sweet, yet sometimes bitter. More Blackberries, Please offers a voyeuristic glimpse into the richness that abounds in Appalachia and in Black family life, including the gift of girlhood, the complexity of community belonging, the fluid dichotomy between rural and urban Appalachian experiences and strong awareness of spirituality linked to environment. There are many Black country folks who have lived and are living in small towns, up hollers and across knobs. They are all over America, in the South, in Appalachia, even in Texas. This adaptation will demonstrate Black community life over a course of 3040 years in Appalachia, Kentucky. In line with the legacies of Affrilachian Artistry, Jazz Aesthetics and Black Feminist Performance, this process of staging Dr. Rita Abell’s stage adaptation of Blackberries, Blackberries as a chore poem alongside a radio drama explores the joys and pain of the women of “Affrilachia,” a group whose identity is located at the intersections of race, place, class and gender.

PROJECT LEAD

LOCATION

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

One hour and 15 minutes

PERFORMANCES

April 3 at 5:30 p.m.

April 5 at 4:30 p.m.

April 6 at 8:30 p.m.

Play

Contains mature language and themes including transphobic language and themes of sexuality and the body.

It’s hard to be the New Guy in the world’s most generic office. It’s even harder to be the New Guy when you’re the New Guy because you came out as transgender. How are your Male coworkers supposed to act around you? What about your Female ones? And has anybody noticed that the boss is a Big Furry Monster? OH, BUDDY is a dark absurdist comedy about how the bizarre demands of binary gender affect the way we take on roles in the workplace and beyond.

PROJECT LEAD

Hal Cosentino

LOCATION Lab Theatre

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

One hour and 25 minutes

PERFORMANCES

April 3 at 6:30 p.m.

April 5 at 7:30 p.m.

April 6 at 3:30 p.m.

Contains mature content including dark/crude humor.

A short, stop-motion film that endeavors collaboration between the Department of Theatre and Dance and RadioTelevision-Film, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The film will be followed by a short behind-the-scenes documentary that aims to highlight the skills and talents of the designers, technicians, fabricators and filmmakers it takes to bring stop-motion to life.

PROJECT LEAD California Thorson

LOCATION WIN 2.112

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

45 minutes

There will be a 20-minute talkback following the screening on April 6 at 5:00 p.m.

Site-Specific Performance

PERFORMANCES

April 3 at 9:00 p.m.

April 4 at 12:00 p.m.

April 6 at 5:00 p.m. (talkback to follow)

Contains mature content including language, themes of environmental justice including racial trauma, climate anxiety, climate grief and discussions of mental health.

Petrificationology is a site-specific immersive performance staged in the Texas Memorial Museum. Nestled between the disciplines of Geology and Biology is the small and perpetually underfunded subfield of Petrificationology: the study of those who have been turned to stone. In a moment in which the Texas Memorial Museum is closed to the public due to a lack of funding, we are welcoming audiences behind the scenes into our study of stillness, cycles, and stone. A museum-wide performance led by Rebecca Fitton, Max Franko, Gabrielle Lewis, Dylan McLaughlin, Whitney Mosery, and Emma Watkins.

Emma Watkins LOCATION Texas Memorial Museum

PROJECT LEAD

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

60 minutes

PERFORMANCES

April 4 at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

April 5 at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

April 6 at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Dance/Film

This dance film will utilize the power of filmmaking and movement composition in order to tell the artist’s story and the story of many other first- generation Asian Americans growing up in predominantly white communities. This film touches on the internal conflict of wanting to honor ones heritage and the people who came before but also longing to fit in and feeling like an outsider. It explores the struggle with internalized racism as an adolescent and how it heavily influences the development of one’s character as well as how the model minority myth can influence how one experiences theirself.

April 3 at 6:30

April 4 at 2:30 p.m.

April 6 at 8:30 p.m.

RED,BLUE,YELLOW: MAGENTA,TEAL,AMBER: VIOLET,GREEN,ORANGE

Dance

Red,Blue,Yellow: Magenta,Teal,Amber: Violet,Green,Orange is a dance work that provides a study on the interpersonal dynamics between people in groups of threes. In various literature/media from various cultures there are connections made between trios of people and the three primary colors (Red,Blue,Yellow), imbuing common characteristics to each color that pair and contrast with the other two. In this piece there are nine dancers, each one is an ethereal embodiment of a color on the color wheel and each with distinct personalities. When the three trios of color are aligned on the wheel they create a perfectly balanced triangle.

Brock Gayaut

April 4 at 12:30

April 5 at 1:30 p.m.

April 6 at 5:30 p.m.

Dance

Contains mature content and themes.

ReSourced: Portals of Possibility is a durational dance experience that explores the pulls between oppression and liberation and the tensions that fall between the two. It is a journey of acknowledgement confrontation, shedding and expansion through the body. This experience uses dance performance, embodied facilitation, projection and sound to take the performer and audience on a journey to reconnect to their physical body and expand the possibilities of our future world. ReSourced: Portals of Possibility asks: what are we holding that is not ours to carry? What does it feel like to be in a liberated body? What practices can we create to make a liberated body sustainable?

PROJECT LEAD

Love Muwwakkil

LOCATION

WIN 2.180

Performance

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

40 minutes

PERFORMANCES

April 5 at 2:00 p.m.

April 6 at 8:00 p.m.

Contains mature content including partial nudity and themes of depression and trauma. Suitable for ages 17+.

A live performance piece that pushes the limits of experimental trance music to examine the dynamics of the relationship between society and their traditions.

PROJECT LEAD

Ben Randall

LOCATION

B. Iden Payne Theatre

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

1 hour

PERFORMANCES

April 6 at 8:30 p.m

Contains mature content and themes.

An installation - at the center is a baptismal font with a speaker underneath the water. It reflects back. On the outskirts are invitations. Pick up an iPad. Choose a projection. Record your voice. Will it play out loud? Decide alone. Decide with a friend. Do nothing. These are all choices we make. You can turn back. Can you forget? Radiating inward are translucent fabrics, on which different projections are played at different times. On which poetry is digitally written.

See them and see through them. Walk through them if you like. Through audience participation and multimedia; through live music and spoken word; through archival home video footage ands self portraiture, this project explores cycles of consent, shame and silence that young people face in community theatre spaces.

PROJECT LEAD

Lily Odekirk

LOCATION

B. Iden Payne Lobby

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME

Installation will be available from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

April 3-6, 2023.