Possible Fireworks: Susan McKeown
Friday, October 10 - 8pm
Part Irish folk-singer, part "alternative" chanteuse, Susan McKeown has one of the most enchanting voices of her generation. Heiress apparent to the throne of Sandy Denny, she frequently collaborates with musicians outside traditional music, bringing a folk sensibility to the original jazz concept behind Possible Fireworks.
BRIC Picks: Sonic Calligraphy
Saturday, October 11 - 8pm
This very special evening of music features Swiss pianist Adrian Frey and Asian vocalist Peggy Chew who will present a varied program including popular folk songs from China with an improvisational approach and jazz influence.
Ample Sample
Friday, October 17 & Saturday, October 18 - 8pm
This evening's performance features aerial dance by Incidents Physical Theater (pictured right) on a specially constructed ladder apparatus; dance by Kirsten Johansen; performance art by "Korean bride" Maria Yoon; and musical guests One Ring Zero, with Michael Hearst on claviola and theremin and Joshua Camp on accordion.
BRIC Picks: Oni Faida Lampley's Tough Titty
Friday, October 24 & Saturday, October 25 - 8pm
At once startlingly funny and poignant, Tough Titty, written by celebrated actress Oni Faida Lampley, explores the emotional blow-up of a young black woman's life after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Angela tries to maintain her marriage, raise two small boys, and endure treatment while being forced to confront her childhood ideas about God and goodness and wrestle with the "shame of illness" and the often asked question of "What did I do wrong?"
Tough Titty was commissioned by BRIC with funding from an Individual Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.
BRIC Picks: Gender in a Blender: A Halloween Celebration
Friday, October 31 - 8pm
Join Lake Ivan Performance Group, Gina Young, and Yolanda in celebrating the ancient Gaelic holiday of Samhain (pronounced "SAW-win"), what we call Halloween - when "the veil between the worlds is thinnest" - with an evening of wild and unpredictable music and theater, freely morphing between genders, identities, conceptual categories, and modes of performance. Come in costume and party with us afterwards!
BRIC Picks: Target Margin Theater presents: Goethe's Faust, Parts I and II
Friday, November 7 & Saturday, November 8 - 8pm
Apocalyptic visions of the futility of mankind; the insatiable pursuit of pleasure; the ennui of existence.... See what happens to poor Dr. Faustus when he becomes the pawn in a cruel poker-style wager between the forces of good and evil. Which side has the high hand and which side is bluffing? Target Margin Theater, keepers of the downtown "avant-flame," tackle select excerpts from this exciting new translation of Goethe's sprawling epic, Faust, Parts I and II.
BRIC Picks: 3rd Annual BIFF Best of the Fest
Friday, November 14 - 8pm
Brooklyn International Film Festival presents a collection of short experimental and animated films from around the world including Day 26 (Germany, 2002), Call Baker (France, 2003) and Butterfly (Ireland, 2002). All this and fresh popcorn!
Theater Nexus: Jeffrey M. Jones's The Crazy Plays
Friday, November 21 and Saturday, November 22 - 8pm
In Jeffrey M. Jones's The Crazy Plays, cowboy behavior is controlled by a machine and a father and son conversation takes on unexpected clichés. Ironic and funny, the play has not been reproduced in New York since its original production here in 1990.
Directed by Luke Leonard
Featuring: Bettina Adger, Brenda Cooney, Philippe Cu Leong, and Daniel Winerman
Music by Brennan Johnson, Stephen Gracia, Michael LoPorto and Joe Cipoletti
Possible Fireworks: Peter Apfelbaum
In 1977, at age 17, multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum founded a 17-piece band, Hieroglyphics Ensemble, that incorporated the polyrhythmic mix of African and Western elements now widely acknowledged as having presaged "world beat." He's since performed with the likes of Sex Mob, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Charlie Hunter, and many others. Playing saxophone, piano and percussion, he now faces a new challenge: to share the BRIC Studio stage and his broad musical vocabulary with vocalist Dean Bowman.
Possible Fireworks: Jane Scarpantoni
Friday, February 6 - 8pm
At Possible Fireworks, audiences get to see sparks fly when a renowned musician takes the stage with a dream band of their making, consisting of musicians they've never played with before. This month features Jane Scarpantoni, who has become one of the most sought-after players and arrangers in alternative music. A classically-trained cellist, she's appeared and recorded with a number of big hitters, including Bruce Springsteen, Moby, R.E.M., Indigo Girls, and, most recently, Lou Reed. Curated by Janine Nichols.
BRIC Picks: 10 Brecht Poems
Created and performed by Tannis Kowalchuk and Leese Walker
Saturday, February 7 - 8pm
Two years -- and several tours -- after its original workshop run at BRIC Studio, Tannis Kowalchuk and Leese Walker return for a one-night-only performance of their dynamic vaudevillian show, 10 Brecht Poems, weaving voice, movement and shadow puppetry to convey the powerful messages of selected poems by Bertolt Brecht.
Ample Sample
Friday, February 13 & Saturday, February 14 - 8pm
For our third annual Valentine's Day show we present the phenomenal Urban Bush Women, "triple-threat performers who dance, sing and act with a searing sense of truthfulness," according to The New York Times. Also on the program: choreographer Laura Peterson; aerial dance by Fly-by-Night Dance Theater; "Kool-Aid luv woes" by Baraka de Soleil with Little MonstaH and the gang; and singer Paula Jeanine. Bring your honey (or come and find one). Curated by Michelle Moskowitz Brown.
Theater Nexus
Friday, February 20 & Saturday, February 21 - 8pm
Brooklyn-trained playwrights showcase four new works. Eclectic and zany, the works are not connected by style or theme so expect a diverse evening by these emerging writers. Curated by DTX Alternative.
Briefs
Friday, February 27 - 8pm
In honor of the shortest month of the year, the SHOEfarm has assembled several playwrights to showcase short-short one-acts. Playwrights include Jennifer Boutell, Tom X. Chao, Christopher Heath, Eric Hunt, and a few others. With original music composed by Matthew Horton.