BRIC Artist-in-Residence The Commons Choir is hosting an intensive this weekend on August 5 & 6 from 10:30AM-2:30PM in the BRIC House Ballroom. No experience necessary! Participants of the intensive will have the option to join The Commons Choir production of MAYDAY HEYDAY PARFAIT, which rehearses and performs this fall in early November at BRIC.

More about the show:

“Isn’t it imperative/ to cross the sea/ to cross the street/ this time around/ to go straight to the wound/ and do not touch” (from the libretto)

The Commons Choir’s new work, MAYDAY HEYDAY PARFAIT, sets humanity’s troubles and highest aspirations to song, dance, and poetry, exploring the human capacity for empathy across difference.  A diverse cast of 15 weaves a multi-layered narrative in complex musical harmonies and highly personal movement – from the violence of history that brought us to where we are now, to a way forward where individuals follow their own paths and yet still feel their connection to others. Like the title whimsically references: MAYDAY (distress signal, request for help) HEYDAY (period of great success) PARFAIT (French: perfect; layered concoction), our stories and our histories are irreducible and interdependent. Our collective force may be strong if we can find a way to undiscover ourselves and meet again.

Performed by: Sylvestre Akakpo, Martita Abril, Massimiliano Balduzzi, Ilona Bito, Lydia Chrisman, Daria Faïn, Ichi Go, Alvaro Gonzales Dupuy, Antígona González, Michael Ingle, Aram Jibilian, Robert Kocik, Anaïs Maviel, Saúl Ulerio, Jean Carla Rodea.