Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

What if captions ‘step up,’ ‘speak with’ you, and ‘tell’ you about their stories? 💬💭💃🏽✌🏽:)

Jay Afrisando: [𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨]
performed by thingNY
Fri, May 26, ’23, 7:00 pm ET

@herearts, DOT Theatre
145 6th Ave, New York, NY

🔗 Tix & Info: https://ci.ovationtix.com/219/production/1157853?performanceId=11268622

𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 [𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞]: 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩.

📌 [opera captions] focuses on captions that bring together accessibility, inner and imagined voices, and improvisation.

▶️ It’s a semi-fiction, semi-translation, semi-poetry, semi-film, semi-music, and semi-theater performance!

👋 It features captions as “an actor” interacting with and personified by bodily-diverse human beings: a collective of New York composer-performers thingNY and wonderful viewers-audiences.

🏮[opera captions] reimagines what captions can do beyond functioning as a speech conveyor and a sound interpreter in audiovisual media.

🧡 [opera captions] invites you to celebrate the lives of captions that have been both cherished and hated.

Accessibility/things to anticipate
• Captions will be the main performance elements. They will also be audible.
• There is no sound amplification, and the overall loudness will be moderate.
• A very small part of the performance features profanity.
• 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/ @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.

Save the date. More Info SOON.

Hypercube presents the premiere of new works by Kunal Gala, Richard Carrick, Manuel Hernandez, Ricardo Gallo alongside a world premiere commission by Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh for saxophone, electric guitar, piano and percussion.

Excited to join National Sawdust Ensemble for “Days of 2023” a celebration of the poet Constantine P. Cavafy, featuring works by Sofía Avramidou, Marcos Balter, Zosha di Castri, Stylianos Dimou, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Lena Platonos, and Georgios Poniridis, will be performed by the National Sawdust Ensemble under the music direction of Jeffrey Zeigler.

MONDAY, MAY 1, 2023 // 7PM
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
2960 Broadway
New York, NY

For more info + tickets:
https://www.millertheatre.com/events/days-of-2023