Brooklyn Gypsies presenta One Catches Light Festival, celebrating the new work of extraordinary NYC-based solo performers. In this festival, 5 unique solo artists will take the stage for 2 weeks in January. Honesty, music, new love, and Brooklyn from five voices catch the light each evening.
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ONE CATCHES LIGHT FESTIVAL 2018
OPEN JUNE 1 2017. STAY TUNE.
OPEN JUNE 1 2017. STAY TUNE.
ONE CATCHES LIGHT FESTIVAL JANUARY 20-22 & 26-28 2017 @ JACK
Performances By
Performances By
THE LEAD ARTIST
Nic Adams - Icarus in the L.E.S.
Angy Abreu- No Room for the Broken
Anna Peretz Rogovoy - How difficult is it for one body
Artem Yatsunov - Please Google Ukraine (Show D)
Olander “Big O” Wilson - What The F*** was i thinking?
SHOW SYPNOSIS
Icarus in the L.E.S. (full-length premiere)
Creator - Nic Adams
Performer - Ronald Peet
Icarus in the L.E.S. (full-length premiere) is a kaleidoscopic performance-poem delivered from the final bastions of the New York vanguard. The performance centers on the wax-winged hero – who did not die when he fell from the sky, but instead lives on – chasing his destiny and scouting out the divide between artistic achievement and personal happiness. Taken under the wings of a mystical literati including The Silent Janitor, Bernardo, and The Severed Head of Homer, the poet, Icarus, must ford the rivers of the underworld to his final showdowns with both his nemesis, Rodney Cheshire Clemenceau, and himself. Presented as a teched-out poetry reading, and brimming with sound and video design culled from the most psychically-charged bits of city living.
No Room for the Broken
Writer - Angy Abreu
Performer - Paula Ramirez
Director - Armando Batista
No Room for the Broken embraces a sense of loss and abandonment and shows how love can go wrong. The monologue is as an intelligent, well thought out and passionate parade of emotions locked into the messiness of relationships. It’s that sticky point where anger and unrequited longing meet. In a highly charged and emotionally intricate manner, Abreu discloses her need to make connections and the tragedy of choosing the wrong partner. Her words are fever pitch and declamatory exclamations of someone defending herself and in the end coming out scarred and bruised yet stronger and wiser. This is an exercise of healing and catharsis of the highest order. Abreu expels old love demons, clearing up the clutter of emotional trauma, in an attempt at closure all the while piecing together the shattered bits of heart and romance.
Please Google Ukraine
Writer/Performer - Artem Yatsunov
Director - Patrice Miller
Ukrainian-born, Jersey-raised, Brooklyn-based director and storyteller, Artem Yatsunov, visits his homeland after the break out of the Ukrainian Civil War in 2014. This is the completely true, slightly inaccurate, mostly made up and generally genuine story of highway hijackings, uncontrollable revolutions, broken families, and vodka.
How Difficult Is It For One Body
Creator/Performer - Anna Peretz Rogovoy
"How difficult is it for one body" is a choreographed rumination on one question: what happens when the homes, the identities, the truths we take for granted are taken from us? Through a diverse movement vocabulary, original and borrowed text, and deeply vulnerable performance, we examine the repercussions of division and loss. Family history merges with the conflict of a nation and a personal tragedy, all in the body of one young woman.
What the f*** Was I Thinking?
Creator/Performer Olander "Big O" Wilson
Director - Eldren Keys
What The F*** Was I Thinking? brings a funny aim to politics, personal issues and his transition from the back woods of Lake City, South Carolina to the big city of New York.
SHOW BREAKDOWN
Nic Adams - Icarus in the L.E.S. (Show A)
Angy Abreu- No Room for the Broken (Show B - week 1 only)
Anna Peretz Rogovoy - How difficult is it for one body (Show C)
Artem Yatsunov - Please Google Ukraine (Show D)
Olander “Big O” Wilson - What The F*** was i thinking? (show E -week 2 only)
WEEK ONE PERFORMANCE TIME BREAKDOWN JANUARY 20-22
Friday performance
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show a
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show d
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show c
Fourth show: 11 pm - 11:55 pm show b
Saturday performance
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show d
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show c
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show b
Fourth show: 11 pm - 11:55 pm show a
Sunday schedule (times have changed)
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show b
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show d
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show a
Fourth show: 11 pm - 11:55 pm show c
WEEK TWO PERFORMANCE TIME BREAKDOWN JANUARY 26-28
Thursday performance
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show a
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show d
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show c
Fourth show 11pm - 1130pm show e
Friday performance
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show c
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show a
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show d
Fourth show 11pm - 1130pm show e
Saturday performance
First show: 6:30 pm - 7:25 pm show c
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show d
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show a
Fourth show 11pm - 1130pm show e
2017 ONE Catches Light Festival is part of The Exponential Festival and being hosted by JACK Theater in Clinton Hill - 505 ½ Waverly Pl, Brooklyn, NY.
Nic Adams - Icarus in the L.E.S.
Angy Abreu- No Room for the Broken
Anna Peretz Rogovoy - How difficult is it for one body
Artem Yatsunov - Please Google Ukraine (Show D)
Olander “Big O” Wilson - What The F*** was i thinking?
SHOW SYPNOSIS
Icarus in the L.E.S. (full-length premiere)
Creator - Nic Adams
Performer - Ronald Peet
Icarus in the L.E.S. (full-length premiere) is a kaleidoscopic performance-poem delivered from the final bastions of the New York vanguard. The performance centers on the wax-winged hero – who did not die when he fell from the sky, but instead lives on – chasing his destiny and scouting out the divide between artistic achievement and personal happiness. Taken under the wings of a mystical literati including The Silent Janitor, Bernardo, and The Severed Head of Homer, the poet, Icarus, must ford the rivers of the underworld to his final showdowns with both his nemesis, Rodney Cheshire Clemenceau, and himself. Presented as a teched-out poetry reading, and brimming with sound and video design culled from the most psychically-charged bits of city living.
No Room for the Broken
Writer - Angy Abreu
Performer - Paula Ramirez
Director - Armando Batista
No Room for the Broken embraces a sense of loss and abandonment and shows how love can go wrong. The monologue is as an intelligent, well thought out and passionate parade of emotions locked into the messiness of relationships. It’s that sticky point where anger and unrequited longing meet. In a highly charged and emotionally intricate manner, Abreu discloses her need to make connections and the tragedy of choosing the wrong partner. Her words are fever pitch and declamatory exclamations of someone defending herself and in the end coming out scarred and bruised yet stronger and wiser. This is an exercise of healing and catharsis of the highest order. Abreu expels old love demons, clearing up the clutter of emotional trauma, in an attempt at closure all the while piecing together the shattered bits of heart and romance.
Please Google Ukraine
Writer/Performer - Artem Yatsunov
Director - Patrice Miller
Ukrainian-born, Jersey-raised, Brooklyn-based director and storyteller, Artem Yatsunov, visits his homeland after the break out of the Ukrainian Civil War in 2014. This is the completely true, slightly inaccurate, mostly made up and generally genuine story of highway hijackings, uncontrollable revolutions, broken families, and vodka.
How Difficult Is It For One Body
Creator/Performer - Anna Peretz Rogovoy
"How difficult is it for one body" is a choreographed rumination on one question: what happens when the homes, the identities, the truths we take for granted are taken from us? Through a diverse movement vocabulary, original and borrowed text, and deeply vulnerable performance, we examine the repercussions of division and loss. Family history merges with the conflict of a nation and a personal tragedy, all in the body of one young woman.
What the f*** Was I Thinking?
Creator/Performer Olander "Big O" Wilson
Director - Eldren Keys
What The F*** Was I Thinking? brings a funny aim to politics, personal issues and his transition from the back woods of Lake City, South Carolina to the big city of New York.
SHOW BREAKDOWN
Nic Adams - Icarus in the L.E.S. (Show A)
Angy Abreu- No Room for the Broken (Show B - week 1 only)
Anna Peretz Rogovoy - How difficult is it for one body (Show C)
Artem Yatsunov - Please Google Ukraine (Show D)
Olander “Big O” Wilson - What The F*** was i thinking? (show E -week 2 only)
WEEK ONE PERFORMANCE TIME BREAKDOWN JANUARY 20-22
Friday performance
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show a
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show d
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show c
Fourth show: 11 pm - 11:55 pm show b
Saturday performance
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show d
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show c
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show b
Fourth show: 11 pm - 11:55 pm show a
Sunday schedule (times have changed)
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show b
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show d
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show a
Fourth show: 11 pm - 11:55 pm show c
WEEK TWO PERFORMANCE TIME BREAKDOWN JANUARY 26-28
Thursday performance
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show a
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show d
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show c
Fourth show 11pm - 1130pm show e
Friday performance
First show: 6:30 - 7:25 pm show c
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show a
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show d
Fourth show 11pm - 1130pm show e
Saturday performance
First show: 6:30 pm - 7:25 pm show c
Second show: 8 pm - 8:55 pm show d
Third show: 9:30 pm - 10:25 pm show a
Fourth show 11pm - 1130pm show e
2017 ONE Catches Light Festival is part of The Exponential Festival and being hosted by JACK Theater in Clinton Hill - 505 ½ Waverly Pl, Brooklyn, NY.
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ONE CATCHES LIGHT FESTIVAL JANUARY 2016 @ JACK
ONE CATCHES LIGHT FESTIVAL JANUARY 2016 @ JACK
