‘Dark Matter Messages’ opens Friday at Bridge Street Theater
“Dark Matter Messages,” a new work by d. Sabela Grimes, will be performed at Bridge Street Theater, 44 W. Bridge St., Catskill, on Friday, July 27, at 8 p.m., Saturday, July 28, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 29, at 2 p.m.
A LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing Arts production, “Dark Matter Messages” is a collection of live poetry, video projections and music interwoven with improvisational movement meditations that realize AfroFuturism as a means to play within the nowness of impending futures. Moved by how Octavia E. Butler invents interrelated notions of humanness in her Parable Series, d. Sabela Grimes, in “Dark Matter Messages,” dreams Butler’s unfinished manuscript, “Parable of the Trickster,” into a live performance experience.
d. Sabela grimes, a 2017 County of Los Angeles Performing Arts Fellow and a 2014 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow, is a trans-media storyteller, sonic ARKivist and movement composer. He has conceived, written, scored, choreographed and produced several dance theater works including “Philly XP,” “World War WhatEver” and “40 Acres & A Microchip: Salvation or Servitude” from his EXPERIMENT EARTH sound-movement triptych.
His most recent creative project, “ELECTROGYNOUS,” premiered in Los Angeles Fall 2017. Currently, he is creating performance projects and installations drawing on the work of Octavia E. Butler. He is also active as composer/sound designer for two dance theater projects, CONTRA-TIEMPO’s “joyUS” and David Rousseve/REALITY’s “Halfway to Dawn,” both set to premier in 2018-2019.
On faculty at the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, he continues to cultivate Funkamental MediKinetics, a movement system he created that focuses on the methodical dance training and community building elements evident in hip hop, black vernacular and street dance forms.
All tickets for the Friday and Sunday performances are $25. For Saturday’s performance, general admission tickets are $30, with wheelchair-accessible seating $25.
Call the theatre at (518) 943-3894, or visit bridgest. org for tickets or more information.