Thursday August 24 * 7pm * TICKETS
Tweets You Can Hold: A Fashion Presentation is a collaboratively created exploration of the intersection between the performativity and theatricality of fashion – in runway shows and media, and in how we live in our clothes and bodies each day – with the vocabulary of experimental theater or performance art.
This collaboratively devised production will use movement, text, and theatrical experiments to explore intersecting themes of fashion, self image, and living within a body in an increasingly digital world. The internet allows fashion media to proliferate and influence society in a significant way. We want to examine this phenomenon through a non-hierarchical creation process, transmuting it to highlight its absurdity and make it warmer, lighter, and more familial.
Fashion, and in an even larger scope, clothes on bodies, has always been a method of both individual empowerment and resistance. Of course, there have been oppressive forces working to police what is considered “acceptable” to the hegemony throughout history. We would like to bring attention to the way expressing selfhood through clothing has also recently been vilified and litigated.
By casting the tropes of fashion shows in an absurdist light, we don’t want the audience to leave the play alienated by the mystique of the untouchable runway. Instead, through humor, unexpected eccentric costumes, poetry, and surprising bursts of songs, sounds, and movements, we want to construct an inclusive space where the audience is embraced, and hopefully amused, by our explorations.
In "Pieces of My Grief", Jadyn Brick grapples with the grief of losing her lola (grandmother), and with her, a sense of connection to Filipino culture. Feelings of loss, regret, admiration, and longing swirl around each other in this nonlinear and multidisciplinary exploration.
"Halo-Halo: Mixed-Mixed" (Jadyn Brick and Luisa Lynch) is an honest piece about being mixed race. It's about two individuals -- brought together by our shared Filipina heritage, our shared confusion of being both white and Asian, and our desire to make meaning out of our mixed identities.
Jadyn Brick (she/they/he) is a queer, mixed race, Asian American dancer/maker from Silver Spring, MD. As a creator, Jadyn is interested in storytelling, big emotions, grief, and tenderness. They are currently dedicated to a practice of feeling emotions and resisting numbing. They aim to engage this practice in their artistic work as in life!
Luisa Lynch (she/they) is a queer mixed race dance artist and educator based in Silver Spring, MD. In her work, practice, and life, Luisa reimagines dance through reclamation of the body, and aims to highlight intersectionalities of all identities and selves. Their most recent work explores relationships between audiences and performers in consideration of the male gaze on social media and other online platforms.