An interactive performance about sex and cleaning at 3 private residences
When: October 24 — November 10
Where: October 24–27: Bushwick; October 31 — November 3: Bed-Stuy, November 7–10: Upper East Side
Price: $25–100 (sliding scale); 16+ recommended
Tags: #sitespecific, #dance, #intimate, #participatory, #audienceparticipation, #sex, #cleaning, #ContactAdvisory, #ContentAdvisory, #MobilityAdvisory (see below)
Sex Status 2.0 takes Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 feminist masterpiece “The Second Sex” as a jumping off point for a different take on dance performance; exploring our conditioning as women and what still needs to be uncovered, or shifted. What is authentic femininity? Where does our power lie? What are our deepest desires?
Created by choreographer Carrie Ahern in collaboration with performers Carolyn Hall, Kelly Hayes, Donna Costello, Elke Rindfleisch, Anne Parichon, Jennifer Chin; composer Starr Busby, lighting designer Jay Ryan, and costume consultant Naoko Nagata.
This diverse group of female performers partners with door jambs, end tables, window sills and the audience in dutiful, wild, uncomfortable, funny and surprising explorations through the ‘Female Gaze’, ‘Touch Preferences/Consent’ and an ‘Audience Sex/Cleaning Survey’.
*Each week will be performed in a different location in Brooklyn or Manhattan
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Contact Level: Light (Business/Acquaintance) to Moderate (Familial), with consent. Audience members will be asked to touch performers (but may decline).
Content Advisories: Discussions of sex and intimacy. Audience members will be asked to answer multiple choice questions about sex in a group setting.
Participants at the Bushwick and Bed-Stuy shows must be able to climb 2–3 flights of stairs. The Upper East Side performance is wheelchair accessible.
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