NYC: Exponential Festival
The cutting edge festival takes over Brooklyn this month
When: January 3 — February 6
Where: Various venues across Brooklyn
Price: Varies
Tags: #immersivetheatre, #sitespecific, #interactive, #ContactAdvisory, #ContentAdvisory, #MobilityAdvisory (see below)
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Exponential is the only month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields to keep theatre kicking. Programming includes:
Assemble: A guerrilla, choose-your-own-adventure performance that transforms the mundane spaces of a well-known big box store in Brooklyn into a series of worlds, fantasies and meditations. Participants download an app to their phones and are invited to join Jane as she considers life at 40. Participants are prompted to navigate and interact with the store through a series of choices and tasks. The resulting experience is part immersive theatre, part audio tour and an entirely unique experience for each person.
Protagony: Forming a new cast of “actors” for each evening, PROTAGONY combines forms of high school debate with king drag and “Theatrum Mundi” oratory theatricality. How each actor or subject sees themselves as a protagonist in their own life informs and structures ensuing abjective inquiries into self determination, civil responsibility, self-characterization, and construction of personal narrative.
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Contact Level: Varies
Content Advisories: Varies