RADICAL ACTS

December 2 - 11, 2021

JACK announces Radical Acts, a new festival. Each night features a different artist and their interpretation of radical. Radical joy! Radical mayhem! Radical experiments in sound, light, time and language! And radical confrontations with today’s pressing issues. Oh, and one more thing, each performance will be staged in the round!

December 2nd at 7:30

Ikechukwu UfomaDu

Festival Invocation

Andrew Morrill & James Caverly

Trash

Tim and Jake may be Deaf roommates sharing an apartment in the city, but they are polar opposites -- each with very different worldviews on what it means to be Deaf in a hearing world. When it comes to taking out the trash, they take a comical and insightful dive into their trash and their perceptions of each other’s lives. More info here. (Photo credits: Chris Popio & Jon Taylor)

This evening will include ASL interpretation.

december 3rd at 7:30

Aminah Ibrahim

Come back to me, don't explain (an ode to Lady Day)

Speechless, breathless, crippled in fear, floating in awe as all those in the earth shall swoon surrendering to the last melody. This performance is grounded in prostration that sits in deep contemplation, articulating the spine to delicately rise to stand, a spell singing with sacred hips and rattling sacrum as an instrument, sharply twisting the seat of the soul as a call for reckoning and resurrection. More info here. (Photo credit: Farah Al Quasimi)

michel papach kouakou

Let it Fly

They say that you exit the dance club a different person than you came in. Roused by Afro-Electronic beats that make the heart race, remarkable dancer Kouakou shares a rebirth into acceptance and affirmation. More info here. (Photo credit: Masumi Kouakou)

December 7th at 7:30

Collin Kelly
Therapy

Using comedy, characterization, dance, and live intuitive spiritual readings, therapy is a satirical response to the toxic positivity run rampant in new-age wellness culture. By appropriating various self-help methodologies, Kelly and fellow performer Alexandria Giroux hope to reveal the performance behind the performance of social media and the wellness industry; simultaneously criticizing superficiality while being critical of those who think they are above it. More info here. (Photo courtesy of the artist)

IV Castellanos

Ten X Ten

Grid making, map making, markings that etch a route of resistance. An outline to navigate this body through while carrying seven generations before and seven ahead. More info here. (Photo credit: Wren Noble)

December 8th at 7:30

Anthony R. Green

Did music help to get her through the darkness?

Part workshop, part lecture, part performance, "Did music help to get her through the darkness?" centers around writer Harriet Jacobs (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861) and her radical isolation. For this project, the audience will be challenged to imagine Jacobs's situation through performance participation. More info here. (Photo credit: Colin Conces)

December 9th at 7:30

Freddy Edelhart

The Record

The Record is an interactive musical ghost story about addiction, partnership, music-making, children, information, time, and the patterns that try to live through us. This is a workshop concert of songs, stories, and strange occurrences that may or may not be a part of The Record. More info here. (Photo credit: Sammy Tunis)

This performance offers a live stream ticketing option.

DECEMBER 10TH at 7:30

Hannah Marie Kallenbach
& Alexander Paris

Sitting In The Bullshit

An attempt to process all the bullshit life is throwing. Sit in it, on it, around it and maybe, if we're lucky, finally get on top of it. More info here. (Photo credit: Mary Perino)

evan ray suzuki

~d r e a m c o r e~

A butoh-ish dance work exploring how new media — the influence of the social internet, digital culture, and memes — affects ways of being in the world, from making a quick video of a dance to having a cry. The piece takes a particular interest in ideas of nostalgia and dreamscape as represented and proliferated through internet subcultures, portrayed in the abstract through found gesture and hazy score. . More info here.  (Photo credit: Andrew Grenier)

December 11th at 7:30

Jeesun Choi

Untitled/Diaspora

They are Koreans. They talk. They argue. They confess. They blame. They question. They live, again and again, the stories from their lives. An excerpt from a longer play. An excerpt from a longer play. More info here. (Photo credit: Sara Guaglione)

Maxi Hawkeye Canion

tomorrow as it will be

In this multidimensional solo experience, movement artist Maxi Hawkeye Canion utilizes Black technologies to manifest a visually rich environment representing an engagement with the subconscious by way of immersive feedback loops. They conjure intimate terrains, communicating with ancestors while simultaneously embodying a futuristic entity of their wildest imaginings. More info here. (Photo credit: Andrew J. S.)