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Event
Books and Music (part of FailSafe Festival 2017)
Synopsis:
Audience-Interactive Physical Theater about the difference between passion and intimacy, and the wild heart, mind, and body journey to attaining and sharing both. The main character learns passion but not intimacy from her family, then goes out on her life-path learning intimacy, with diversely odd and just-like-everybody-else ups and downs, crashes and celebrations. She ultimately brings intimacy home.
A funny work about a serious thing, this show aims to also evoke desire for family connection, deeper authenticity, more outrageous expression, and immense self-love in the audience, as they, too, unite in love and creativity.
Artist Information:
Art is love. Love is Art. Barbara Ann Michaels, Jester of the Peace, makes a career of the interplay of love, art, and comedy. She creates audience-participatory environments and performances, usually funny takes on serious things, which can inspire connection transformation. Recent projects include #IVote4U, voting for people to be President of anything, which toured the US in 2017 funded in part by Participatory Safety, Inc; AND NOW: WOMAN, a living room salon series for women, also on tour in 2017; the Love Letter Lounge annual writing event; and work themed for life milestones, like marrying your self, and current events, like the Olympics. Ms. Michaels has been presented at The Miami Project, Barcelona's NauART, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, The New York Clown Theatre Festival, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Unarthodox, Museum of Fine Arts Boston Art in Bloom, Boston Museum of Science, and many festivals. She has been seen on The Learning Channels Four Weddings, in the New York Times, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, New York Magazine, on CNN, in The Guardian and the Huffington Post. She also is an award-winning wedding officiant in New York City, specializing in creative ceremonies, inducted into The Knot Hall of Fame. She chooses to believe she was conceived on Valentine's Day, as her birthday falls exactly nine months later, landing on November 14th each year. Ms. Michaels was born to make art and love.
JesterOfThePeace.com
Performance Dates:
Friday, August 18 @ 4pm
Saturday, August 19 @ 4pm
Sunday, August 20 @ 6pm
About FailSafe Festival 2017:
FailSafe Festival 2017 is a five-day festival of live performance, taking place in the Times Square/Hell's Kitchen area of New York City. FailSafe Festival 2017 provides a space for artists to push beyond what they consider "safe" to present, giving them an opportunity to show work that may not have a home elsewhere.
failsafefestival.com
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LocationThe Grand Theater at the Producers Club (View)
358 West 44th Street
New York,, NY 10036
United States
Categories
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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