Faye Driscoll will be presenting 837 VENICE BLVD for the last time ever in New York City (photo by Steven Schreiber)
837 VENICE BLVD / THERE IS SO MUCH MAD IN ME
The Performance Project at University Settlement
184 Eldridge St.
December 18-19, $10-$15, 7:30
212-453-4523
www.fayedriscoll.com
www.universitysettlement.org
New York-based dancer and choreographer Faye Driscoll will be saying hello and goodbye on December 18-19 at the Performance Project at University Settlement on the Lower East Side, where she’ll be presenting her 2008 hit, 837 VENICE BLVD, for the last time ever in the city while also offering a sneak peek at the work-in-progress THERE IS SO MUCH MAD IN ME, which will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop in April. Driscoll, whose frenetic dance video “Loneliness” was selected for the New Museum’s recent “Younger Than Jesus” exhibit, a compilation of work by fifty international artists under the age of thirty-three, also just directed one act of Taylor Mac’s five-act THE LILY’S REVENGE at HERE Arts Center. While the powerful, emotional, dialogue-heavy 837 VENICE BLVD, set to music by the late French punk Jacno, New Order, and Philip Glass, looks at identity and blame in childhood, the exhilarating THERE IS SO MUCH MAD IN ME deals with making connections. Driscoll, who describes her work as “multidimensional dance dramas that blur the lines between fantasy and reality, arousal and disgust, fun and violence, spectacle and authenticity,” also promises to serve milk and cookies at the show, so what’s not to love?