The Performance Project@University Settlement
184 Eldridge St. at Rivington St.
May 5-7, $15
212-453-4532
www.nicollandoreck.com
www.universitysettlement.org
For three decades, Jessica Nicoll and Barry Oreck have been performing together, focusing the last sixteen years primarily on duets. This week they’ll be at the Performance Project@University Settlement, presenting an evening-length version of their award-winning 2008 piece, The Might Be Napping, as part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City. Examining pivotal moments both personal and political, the work examines how people can sleep, literally and figuratively, though these potentially world-changing events. Incorporating props (including dog leashes and strollers) and verbal language, They Might Be Napping is a collaboration with improvisational theater artists Laura Livingston and Mike Durkin and features music by Steve Reich, Edith Piaf, George Frideric Handel, the Hollies, Ken Nordine, and Suzanne Vega in addition to compositions by Amir Khosrowpour that the pianist will perform live.