Wednesday January 31 * 8pm * MASKS REQUIRED * TICKETS
Take off Your Blank
by the Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Collective
This show is an assortment of moments punctuated by movement exploring what it means to remove. Through a variety of disciplines and styles, Take Off Your Blank will (re)move you to the core. Clothing being exchanged, anarchistic lives getting older, an overabundance of props interrupting a conversation, and a serious humor/sexiness surrounding dancing guitarists, we are exploring tender human moments in short scenes. The scenes could have dance and could have song and could have blank.
What’s the vibe of our piece?
Our theater is loud, soft, exciting, and generally gets the audience riled up. We occasionally invite participation and have a friendly, humorous, poetic, sexy manner. Inclusivity is important to all of us and we want to dismantle the hegemonic patriarchy with queerness, feminism, and radical acceptance.
Rae Red (they/them) encourages the radical act of laughter in the face of darkness by translating everyday realities into performance and play. Their work exposes the magic and wonder within our daily functions, from the wizardry of sight and color theory, to the way water invisibly keeps our lives flowing smoothly like a ghost within the walls. They explore subjects that are universal like blood pumping through veins, while bringing light our own mortality and to the death that is continuously occurring around us. Through performances across the United States Rae Red investigates topics that unite viewers by exposing commonalities while examining the disparate facets within them. They have presented their work in every type of space imaginable from dive bars and the backs of donut shops to The Museum of Human Achievement, High Concept Labs, Cucalorus Stage Festival, and The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. They received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Towson University’s Theatre Arts Program.
Katie Macyshyn aka Katie Magician (they/she) is an artiste and creative play practitioner. Their collaborative new media art uses camp theatricality to explore mental health, alienation, and reconciliation. Macyshyn holds a BFA, with a focus on performance art, from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University. They have been featured in various performance art festivals, DIY venues, and in galleries such as Arlington Arts Center (VA), VisArts (MD), and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC).They are also an art instructor and songstrix who specializes in the therapeutic benefits of creative play in early childhood and queering classrooms. As an interdisciplinary arts facilitator, Macyshyn is a fixture at experimental performance venue Rhizome DC, is a repeat performer at DCPL's drag story time, and is a resident artist at Project Create, DC. She lives in Mount Rainier, MD and is from Toms River, NJ.