Japanese Tea and Ritual Room—卯月Uzuki (April) is a research-based interdisciplinary work expanding perspectives on Japanese Tea Culture, seeking new meanings in ritual, and finding common ground between Japanese traditional culture and contemporary New York life.

ixchel (we are still here, remember this medicine ) - a performance installation and ceremony by Cristina Pitter

ixchel (we are still here, remember this medicine ) - a performance installation and ceremony by Cristina Pitter

ixchel (we are still here, remember this medicine ) - a performance installation and ceremony by Cristina Pitter

ixchel (we are still here, remember this medicine ) - a performance installation and ceremony by Cristina Pitter

ixchel (we are still here, remember this medicine ) - a performance installation and ceremony by Cristina Pitter

ixchel (we are still here, remember this medicine ) - a performance installation and ceremony by Cristina Pitter

ixchel (we are still here, remember this medicine ) - a performance installation and ceremony by Cristina Pitter

ixchel (we are still here, remember this medicine ) - a performance installation and ceremony by Cristina Pitter

December 16th (double bill)
Abigail Jean-Baptiste & Sam Morreale + Maleek Rae, Mars, and 88x

Abigail Jean-Baptiste & Sam Morreale: in search of (black) comfort
in search of (black) comfort asks: what is the labor required to craft black comfort and black ease? how can we collect, archive, and retrieve modes of being that prioritize black comfort? is black comfort merely a distraction from revolution or a radical necessity? are there ways to cultivate environments where black comfort and ease are unwavering constants? Part performance piece, part gathering, audiences are invited to join us in a comfort continuum emanating from a lone figure’s pursuit of both articulating AND embodying black comfort through ongoing acts of transcription, research, and ease. how might we embody black comfort and calm while laboring in pursuit of it?

Maleek Rae, Mars, and 88x: Ghetto Alchemy: A Radical Ritual
Ghetto Alchemy is a musical/spoken word offering of communal release. This is a radical ritual made to drop your shoulders, bless your ears, and tap in your mind. What is it that you’ve been grieving and the time has come to release? Release your fears/ your doubts/yourinhibitions/RELEASE|Join us in this radical ritual of featuring Maleek Rae, Mars, and 88X

Natacha Voliakovsky + Mette Loulou Von Kohl & Leila Delicious

Natacha Voliakovsky Denied Status: to be alive we need a system that supports our survival. How many lives are we expecting to lose in the global fight across borders? Denied status is an action. This action has a message inserted into the skin, emulating the flags used in marches in SouthAmerica. The action demonstrates the abuse of institutional power that takes over our bodies and penetrates the lives of people with fewer resources around the world. This performance aims to show the need for global laws that protect our survival and the freedom to choose over our own territory to generate social reflection and open up to collective reparation.

Mette Loulou Von Kohl & Leila Delicious: Eat me Baladi
Eat Me Baladi is an exploration of what it means to be Palestinian in diaspora. How to understand the self across distance as you witness the genocide of your people from afar? How to locate the self as part of the struggle within the belly of the beast, and reject dehumanization by staying connected to the self and community? Through movement, sensuality, and sexuality, Leila and Loulou explore undoing internalized impacts of settler-colonialism which have disturbed/interrupted/thwarted their self-understanding as Palestinians. They use satisfaction and pleasure to envision resistance and liberation for their people and for the land.

December 14: Lydia Jialu Li 黎珈璐

少女之眼 EYE EYE EYE is an on-going physical theatre project in research of the aesthetics and narratives of sisterhood life in the artist’s generation. A kaleidoscopic chronicle of a girl’s online- & offline- metamorphosis between 1993 to today.

Coordination: 39°54′15″N, 116°24′27″E.

IP Address: 120.228.149.221

December 11th: Brett Robinson

Good Person is a bouffon comedy that asks us what do we gain by truly being good, and what if we gave up? Once we make all the right choices, what are we left with? What happens when we begin to crack open our own sense of good and bad and give ourselves permission to live in the unknown.

December 10th: Ching I Chang at 5:00pm

Love Letter to Mother/Land: Prelude to Bunun Visits is the start of a new work where movement is sound; and sound is movement — through the inspiration of Taiwanese Indigenous, Bunun people’s singing, Ching cultivates soundings with dancers, singers, and the environment - aiming to create a piece of work dedicated to the street recycling collectors — the unsound/unsung people. 

December 9th (double bill)

Theydy Bedbug + ALEXA GRÆ & Stephanie Acosta

Theydy Bedbug: KeepSake
KeepSake is a drag poetry journey by Kelindah bee featuring their drag persona Theydy Bedbug. Kelindah bee enters a clinical trial for an experimental new body scan technology, called KeepSake, intended to treat stored trauma. Together, we take a somatic journey and pause at key body parts for core memory excavations, surreal dream interpretations, forgotten fantasies, trauma distillations stored in the caverns of the body. What lives and dies in the brain, the lungs, the chest, the junk and how does that long-term storage impact what we can be?

ALEXA GRÆ & Stephanie Acosta: COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration
COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR- transfiguration is an electronic opera in the form of dazzling soliloquy - featuring soundscapes, movement, and poetry sparked, out of necessity, for self preservation. The source material assembled through snapshots from a quarantine and uprising that brought intelligences rooted in blackness, trans-queer identity, neurodiversity, and magic to the fore. Drawing from the traditions of operatic madness, solitude, body intellect, and the building of self, as artistic practice. Spoken confessionals ripple textual streams of consciousness as the protagonist attempts to unburden themselves by repeating ego deaths in the morning and seeking metaphysical magic under the eye of the moon.

December 8th (double bill)
Jennae Santos aka gushes + Ankita Sharma

Jennae Santos aka gushes: Delicious Collision I
Delicious Collision I is a multimedia choreographic song cycle to the first chapter of gushes' unreleased art rock album and new Filipinx mythology. Delicious Collision refers to a series of portals— psychedelic convergences of ancestral, elemental, queer, erotic, and warrior spirits whose dance maps pathways through birth and death cycles for unbound expressions of liberation. The primordial womb melts, an oyster splits, carnations burst, and a guitar smashes 2 portals open. Conjured from fisher folklore, climate erosion, drag, pro wrestling, Kali FMA, and the Indigenous Filipino concept of Kapwa, this immersive, allegorical ceremony beckons intimate within epic.

Ankita Sharma: dhoka/Betrayal/God Unspoken
dhoka entangles Hindu goddess Kali’s ultimate power and destructive nature with present-day authoritarianism and religious violence, using myth to unpack how Hinduism has been shaped into propaganda for nationalism by Western influence. Tracing Kali’s deification, dhoka accompanies her transformation into a colonized, fetishized, destructive image that upholds violence with her bloodied tongue. The work lives at the fringes of reality and genre, letting the epic and human dance together: a physical exploration of how worship can distort what something stands for.

December 7th

Co-Director Kick Off - performances by Co-Directors followed by a conversation with past Radical Acts artists

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.

JACK and New Georges invite you to:

United States v. Gupta By Deepali GuptaDirected by Caitlin Sullivan Produced by Lucy Jackson United States v. Gupta is a musical tragedy that attempts to tell the story of Rajat Gupta. In the summer of 2012, Gupta—a former head of McKinsey—was tried, convicted, and incarcerated for insider trading. More than a decade removed from the events of his trial, his youngest daughter, Deepali Gupta, is presenting her own version—in collaboration with director Caitlin Sullivan. What if the courtroom were a theater? What if a juror burst into song? Working with materials that are transcribed, remembered, and imagined, Deepali writes a play that maps a history. And yes—she’s playing herself.