Event

Others

Dmitri Barcomi (Creator, Director)

Aimée Niemann (Violin)

Seth Majnoon (Choreographer)

Dylan Gurerra (Dramaturg)

Jacqueline Reed (Intertitle Design)

Featuring:

Anna Dresdale, Aleksandr Krapivkin*, Jess Orense, Josiah Vasquez

This is an Equity Approved Showcase.
*Member of Actors Equity Association

Others is a movement-based interdisciplinary interpretation of Weimar era German silent film Different from the Others. Released in 1919, it was the first gay rights movie ever made and tells the story of a talented gay violinist who is blackmailed by an extortionist, featuring vignettes of gay life in Weimar Berlin. Others adapts this film to the medium of live performance, with an interdisciplinary twist. Integrating interactive intertitles (title cards present in silent films) and a musical score including live violin music accompanies the movement based silent story.

Selected as part of the 2020 Exponential Theatre Festival in Brooklyn.

THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL 2020
A PLEASURE, A MESS, A THRILL, AND A DREAM

Jan. 3 - Feb 3 at a variety of Brooklyn's most eclectic venues
Brooklyn, NYThe Exponential Festival is a month-long January festival for NYC-based emerging, experimental performing artists, now in its fourth year. Performances will take place January 3 - February 3 in partnership with The Brick, Chez Bushwick, JACK, Target Margin Theater's The Doxsee, Loading Dock, Patch Works Theater, Para\\el, Honey's, and Vital Joint. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring, and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields to keep theatre kicking.

www.theexponentialfestival.org