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Gallery Hours at DCAC: Wed - Sun 2-7pm In the Gallery :
Themes of social ritual and emerging sexuality are set against the luminous landscapes of Southern California and Mallorca, Spain in Adam de Boer’s new series of narrative paintings, Memory Meets Imagination Halfway. Evoking Vladimir Nabokov as psychological literary muse,
Khánh H. Lê: Born Too Late Twenty years after fleeing his native Vietnam, Khánh Lê is in ardent pursuit of his own legend. On a stubborn quest to decode the cultural patterns of the America he now inhabits and confront the mythologies which cling to the fast-changing land he left behind, Lê raids visual archives both familial and public. The result of the artist’s systematic scouring of this historical inventory? Arresting photogravure etchings that betray the mechanics of propaganda. Swarovski-studded collages that obscure so as to reveal. Ethnographic revelations fueled by an exile’s yearning to – somewhere – belong. Born in 1981 in Mỹ Tho, Vietnam, Khánh Lê received an M.F.A. from Syracuse University in 2008 and is currently Artist-in-Residence at the Children’s Studio School. This show will mark the first exhibition of Lê’s prints and drawings in the Washington DC area. NOW SHOWING In the DCAC blackbox theater: Click here for a list of Past DCAC theater performances
Using 1950's romance comics as source material. MCV2 celebrates the saucy kitsch of the pre-code era and eternal search for true love!
The Saartjie Project has garnered international attention for its boundary-stretching stage presentation that explores the mysticism, paradoxes and complexities surrounding the black female body. Fresh off the stage at the Capital Fringe Festival, “Deconstructing the Myth of the Booty” uses visual art and performance art to explore contemporary perceptions of gender, race, and power amidst the backdrop of the tumultuous life of 19th-century Saartjie Baartman, the company’s namesake. Based on the 1995 Nick Hornby novel, High Fidelity: A Musical follows record store owner and obsessive music aficianado Rob Gordon as he struggles to find his way, torn between the pleasures of an extended adolescence and the satisfaction of taking on adult commitments. When his girlfriend unceremoniously dumps him, he looks to his past relationships to find an explanation, examining his own inability to commit. With the help of the music (and musicians) he adores, Rob tries to craft a path that allows him to move forward, while still holding on to the music he loves and the identity it represents. With a soundtrack featuring musical styles ranging from R&B to pop to rock’n’roll, High Fidelity: A Musical, captures the devotion and obsession great popular music can inspire. Featuring music by Tony award winner Tom Kitt, lyrics by Amanda Green and a book written by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire.
Edward Albee’s first play, first performed in 1960, is brought to DCAC for the first time by the provocative Theatre Du Jour. A man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. There enters a second man. He is a young, unkempt and undisciplined vagrant where the first is neat, ordered, well-to-do and conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and rebellion. He longs to communicate so fiercely that he frightens and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope who, in his passion for company, seeks to drain his companion. With provocative humor and unrelenting suspense, the young savage slowly, but relentlessly, brings his victim down to his own atavistic level as he relates a story about his visit to the zoo. Directed by Kris Roth. Featuring Jerry Herbilla and B. Stanley.
The Dinner Party is an ongoing monthly alternative venue for experimental dance, music, and performance art produced by Ilana Silverstein.
Ongoing Theater Events: The best in alternative, avant garde, experimental, innovative and/or non-mainstream poetry from DC and around the country. For info on the readers visit www.dcpoetry.com. |
