Jack Ferver's Chambre | reACT performance series

Founded in 1992 by avant-garde visionary and theater director Robert Wilson, The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities located on Long Island’s East End. With an emphasis on creativity and collaboration, Watermill ​integrates performing arts practice with resources from the humanities, research from the sciences and inspiration from the visual arts. ​The Center is unique within the global landscape of experimental artistic practice and regularly convenes the brightest minds from across disciplines to do, in Wilson’s words, “what no one else is doing.”

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In its inaugural year, The Watermill Center's reACT will feature special performances by past Watermill artist residents, providing them with a unique opportunity to return to Watermill and present original works that are intimately linked to The Center. During his January-February 2014 residency at Watermill, Jack Ferver worked on his dance-theater performance and art installation Chambre, created with Marc Swanson. Ferver returns to Watermill in October of 2016 for two groundbreaking performances.'
*Complimentary cocktails at 5:00pm, performance begins at 6:00pm
American writer, choreographer and director Jack Ferver and American visual artist Marc Swanson take Jean Genets "The Maids" as a point of departure for a farcical and haunting attack on our culture of celebrity and greed. Ferver refracts Genet through many lenses, including the gruesome facts of the real-life murders that inspired "The Maids"; Lady Gagas infamous courtroom deposition speech; role-play; and a manic fantasy escape to the City of Lights.
Swansons mythic and evocative sculptures function as both freestanding artworks and a theatrical set. Ferver is joined by performers Jacob Slominski and Michelle Mola in an exquisite and outrageous performance that asks not how such a violent thing could have happened, but why things like this do not happen more often.
Written and Choreographed by Jack Ferver Installation by Marc Swanson Performed by Jack Ferver, Michelle Mola, Jacob Slominski Costumes by Reid Bartelme Music by Roarke Menzies
This production includes mature and graphic content that the artist feels is inappropriate for children.
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+ By train The LIRR departs from NY Penn station (34th street/ 8th Avenue), Manhattan. Take the LIRR train to the Southampton station. For reservations and more detail | http://lirr42.mta.info/
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 *The Watermill Center is committed to providing accessible programs and services for all patrons. For further information about any accessibility issues, please contact us at +1 212 253 7484 or email us at info@watermillcenter.org

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