IXCHEL (WE ARE STILL HERE, REMEMBER THIS MEDICINE )
January 10 - 13, 2024

Wednesday, January 10 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm
Thursday, January 11 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm
Friday, January 12 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm
Saturday, January 13 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm

Ixchel is a performance installation & ceremony by Cristina Pitter.
“this work investigates the process of being in relationship and balance with the natural world. this work gestures to the tangled paths of re-indigenizing and deracializing myself. this work is my medicine. through visual art, song, poetry, and ritual I offer medicine shared to me by ancestors known and unknown, seen and unseen. this is medicine gifted and expanded on native lands that are not mine. this is the medicine igniting the way home. I am still here. remember my medicine.”

Cristina Pitter (they/she) is a queer multi-spirit afro-indigenous artist, abolitionist, and alchemist who wants to burn it all down and plant new seeds in the fertile soil. They also have the best laugh ever. SERIOUSLY. Follow their antics at cristinapitter.com. Find them: @lavidabrujeria

Self portraits (Deluxe)
February 6 - February 24, 2024

By Phillip Howze
Directed by Dominique Rider
Produced by The Bushwick Starr & Line Produced by Ayana Parker Morrison

February 6 - February 24, 2024

Previews: $20 - $40 If You Can
Students + Seniors: use code STUSEN0224 for $15 preview tickets and $20 reg. tickets
General Admission starting Feb. 10: $25 - $45 If You Can
BLACK THEATER NIGHT on 2/15, $15 with code SP0215

The Bushwick Starr in association with JACK presents
SELF PORTRAITS (DELUXE), the newest work by playwright Phillip Howze, directed by Dominique Rider. An inventive, impressionistic new work that blurs the lines between personal and collective memory, refracting and reframing how we spectate in America. Suspended at the edge of confrontation and contemplation, when put together these discursive theatrical portraits – performed in promenade – invite an expansive vision of Blackness and civil society in today’s age, while also opening new portals into the possibility of our greater, shared and speculative futures.

The production features: Clover St Hubert, Aris Stevenson, and more to come

Creative team: Devon Gates (Composer & Music Director), Brittany Vasta (Scenic), Nia Safarr Banks (Costumes), Masha Tsimring (Lighting), Kathryn Ruvuna (Sound)
Sydneii Colter (Stage Manager)
Line Producer: Ayana Parker Morrison

up until now collective:
midair for some time
March 8 - March 24

A multi-sensory, immersive installation exploring intimacy, connection, and Queer community, UP UNTIL NOW: midair for some time examines what the future of interactive performance might feel like. In the midst of what may be the most seismic shift in how humankind communicates in our lifetime, many of us are starved for connection. Can technology heighten our emotions and make us feel more connected?

Featuring Up Until Now Collective’s short music film UpUntilNow (commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects) and wearable haptics technology provided by Music: Not Impossible, which translates sound onto the skin through vibrations, midair for some time features the collaborative work of two dozen artists from multiple disciplines. The installation is designed as a 20-minute experience for up to six people at a time and is fully accessible to all, including wheelchair users and members of the Deaf and Blind communities.

Japanese Tea and Ritual Room—卯月Uzuki (April) 
April 19th and 20th

Created by Maho Ogawa

in collaboration with performers Carolyn Hall and Annie MingHao Wang

Sound by Tomoko Hojo

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.

Japanese Tea and Ritual Room consists of interactive installations inspired by personal rituals, as described by survey participants. Live performance activations of the installations realize the cultural intersections of the concept of "nothingness" that Japanese Tea Ritual invokes. During each performance activation performers will  evoke a zen garden as human statues, stretching our sense of time so that we may find presence and stillness.

s a t u r n: a revelation
May 10 - May 25

SATURN: A Revelation — introducing the Inter-Dimensional Time-Traveling Disco Space Opera Dance Band: “The Living Ancestors” conceived by j. bouey and designed by George Del Barrio

S A T U R N: A Revelation is an immersive dance performance installation, direct action for community support, and multi-camera live broadcast exploring the question: what are we responsible for once we abolish all systems of oppression? This hologram-like radio show, with environmental projection mapping and multiple points of view, is magically performed in real time through the Live Performance Camera Obscura designed by George Del Barrio, paired with a live broadcast film experience by MIDHEAVEN Network + Studio. The Performance Obscura allows for larger-than-life images of performers dancing within an enclosed space to be projected onto the walls, floors, ceilings, and screens installed in the performance space at the speed of light.

JACK is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, City Councilmember Crystal Hudson, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, New York State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation with the support of State Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forrest, Howard Gilman Foundation, Alliance of Resident Theaters New York, Brooklyn Arts Council,  Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, Harkness Foundation for Dance and Ridgewood Savings Bank, Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman in addition to many generous individuals.