Jay Afrisando: [๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ] performed by thingNY // HERE Arts Center
Date: May 26, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm
What if captions โstep up,โ โspeak withโ you, and โtellโ you about their stories? ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฝโ๐ฝ:)
Jay Afrisando: [๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ]
performed by thingNY
Fri, May 26, โ23, 7:00 pm ET
@herearts, DOT Theatre
145 6th Ave, New York, NY
๐ Tix & Info: https://ci.ovationtix.com/219/production/1157853?performanceId=11268622
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ [๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐๐]: ๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ , ๐โ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐. ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ.
๐ [opera captions] focuses on captions that bring together accessibility, inner and imagined voices, and improvisation.
โถ๏ธ Itโs a semi-fiction, semi-translation, semi-poetry, semi-film, semi-music, and semi-theater performance!
๐ It features captions as โan actorโ interacting with and personified by bodily-diverse human beings: a collective of New York composer-performers thingNY and wonderful viewers-audiences.
๐ฎ[opera captions] reimagines what captions can do beyond functioning as a speech conveyor and a sound interpreter in audiovisual media.
๐งก [opera captions] invites you to celebrate the lives of captions that have been both cherished and hated.
Accessibility/things to anticipate
โข Captions will be the main performance elements. They will also be audible.
โข There is no sound amplification, and the overall loudness will be moderate.
โข A very small part of the performance features profanity.
โข The DOT Theater is wheelchair accessible and fully compliant with ADA requirements.
Creator, Director, Writer, and Composer – Jay Afrisando
Performer – thingNY (Gelsey Bell, Andrew Livingston, Erin Rogers, Dave Ruder, Jeffrey Young)
Lighting Designer – Christina Tang
Project Manager – Terry Perdanawati
Graphic Designer – Jay Afrisando
Original photo – kinsum
[opera captions] is made possible by the support of The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. https://mapfund.org/ย @themapfund
This production is a part of SubletSeries@HERE: a curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as a technical liaison.