2022 Summer/Fall season

Hoi Polloi:
White on White

By Robert Quillen Camp

Co-Directed by Alec Duffy & Lori Elizabeth Parquet

June 23 - Extended through July 16, 2022

OBIE-winning theater company Hoi Polloi returns to JACK with a peek inside the meeting of a white anti-racist affinity group. As the members reckon with sacrifices they must make to live up to their principles, other forces begin to disrupt and unsettle their efforts. An uncanny ode to honesty, forgiveness, and accountability, this ensemble tour de force pulls the audience on a descent from the too-real to the sub-real.  

Kensaku shinohara:
Good bye

July 29 - 30, 2022

Choreographer/dancer Kensaku Shinohara shares a solo dance performance that reflects on sexuality, objectification, intimacy, dominance and boundaries. In this autobiographical piece, Shinohara traces the cultural shift in his moving from Japan to the U.S., the chaos and confrontation that he experienced, and the (literal) plunges he takes as he navigates the war zone of identity and physical collisions. Curated by Stacy Grossfield as part of her Images // Landscapes series at JACK

dragon sisters: The quick flight tour

August 25 - 26, 2022

The Quick Flight Tour is an evening of dynamic performance, live theater, and original music created, performed and directed by The Dragon Sisters. Dive into the sisters’ musical prophecies and creative aesthetic with this production that explores themes of community, non-binary gender expression, and queer black artists navigating the fine art world. It illustrates the many sides of The Dragon Sisters: classical dancers and rap artists, soulmates and collaborators, and bearers of historical trauma and activists. The show is a three-dimensional realization of their debut studio EP, The Fine Print, and features band mates John Feliciano, David Frazier, and Kala. It is a love letter to their community and their sisterhood.

tribe: solace of red - Vol. II

October 1, 2022

A work-in-progress performance by Shamel Pitts, Tushrik Fredericks and Lucca Del Carlo.

TRIBE: Solace of RED - Vol. II is a performance residency exploring the intimate multidisciplinary work of five artists from TRIBE’s arts collective using the languages of dance, poetry, spoken word, visual art, music, and movement. The second round of TRIBE artists participating in the development of Solace of RED - Vol. II include: Shamel Pitts (Choreographer), Tushrik Fredericks (Choreographer & Performer), Ashley Pierre-Louis (Choreographer & Performer), Marcella Lewis (Choreographer & Performer), and Lucca Del Carlo (Transmedia Artist).

Due to unforeseen circumstances, The following production has been post poned until further notice:

open mic night
October 13-16

radical acts: A PERFORMANCE festival

November 9 - 19, 2022

After a wildly-successful inaugural year in 2021, JACK brings back the performance festival Radical Acts for a second go-around. 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.

Desaparecidas

December 2 - 18, 2022

Music by Jaime Lozano, Book by Georgina Escobar, Lyrics by Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca, Directed by Florencia Cuenca, Choreography by Gabriela García, Music direction by Jhoely Garay, Arrangements and orchestrations by Jaime Lozano.

A Spanish-language musical about the death and disappearance of hundreds of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, México told through the lens of Mexican folklore and music.

Raja Feather Kelly:
UGLY Part 3: Blue

December 8 - 10, 2022

A co-presentation with Chelsea Factory, with performances held at 547 West 26th Street in Manhattan.

JACK partners with Chelsea Factory to present choreographer Raja Feather Kelly’s UGLY Part 3: BLUE, the third in a series of his dance theatre solos responding to the dearth of Black queer voices in the mainstream. Commissioned by JACK, the performances will be held in Chelsea Factory’s landmarked historical building in the heart of West Chelsea – marking the first collaboration between JACK and Chelsea Factory. The piece features Feather Kelly as performer, with design by Laura Snow, Tuçe Yasak, You-Shin Chen and Feather Kelly. 

Photo credit: karolina miernik/yako_one

JACK's programming is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, City Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, The New York Community Trust, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Lozen Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York Theater Program in partnership with Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Hyde & Watson Foundation, the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, The Lida Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Bains Family Foundation, and Ridgewood Savings Bank, in addition to many generous individuals.