PRIDEFEST 2021
June 17-30
PrideFest 2021 will highlight work that celebrates the queer community; addresses challenges that are faced as we strive for rights, representation and justice; and presents new ideas and perceptions on how we define ourselves individually, within our own community and in the global community at large. Whether through unity or discordance, these performances and discussions, workshops and forums, ought to shed light on the dynamic individuals and groups who make up the vibrant LGBTQIA+ community, and help us understand where we've come from, where we are, and where we can go.
IN-PERSON EVENTS
Enter into the world of The Abysm, a quaint space located somewhere between here and the beyond, where you will encounter the spirits of those who reflect upon their time spent on this Earth. This one of kind immersive installation experience will be presented with all social distancing guidelines in place, creating a world where you can be absorbed into the Haus of Dust.
Enter into the world of The Abysm, a quaint space located somewhere between here and the beyond, where you will encounter the spirits of those who reflect upon their time spent on this Earth. This one of kind immersive installation experience will be presented with all social distancing guidelines in place, creating a world where you can be absorbed into the Haus of Dust.
Enter into the world of The Abysm, a quaint space located somewhere between here and the beyond, where you will encounter the spirits of those who reflect upon their time spent on this Earth. This one of kind immersive installation experience will be presented with all social distancing guidelines in place, creating a world where you can be absorbed into the Haus of Dust.
Come to the gala! It’s not at the Met, but it IS in Manhattan! Listen to brief excerpts from four new PLAYS by Kallan Dana and new MUSIC by A Granite Garden! Featuring ACTING performances by Cameron Silliman, Danielle Phillips, Jillian Sun, Josh Nasser, Lulu Fairclough-Stewart, Matt Clyne, Max LoSardo, Rory Furey-King, Shea Leavis, and Vivian Belosky! While you’re here, why not use your good ol’ fashioned raffle tickets to purchase some EXTREMELY CHEAP and therefore EXTREMELY COOL used BOOKS?! and used CLOTHES?! All the money raised goes toward paying our artists for a FULL, LIVE, IN-PERSON PRODUCTION of a new play (written by Kallan Dana & directed by Erica Zippel Schnitzer) THIS SEPTEMBER! What?! That’s amazing! And this gala you speak of…it’s all outdoors?! So your soul will be full from the live art AND the transformative rays of the sun?! Wow. This is gonna be the best summer ever. Come make some new friends!
Are you coming home for the funeral? Who left the refrigerator door open? What defines a haunting? In one evening, June, a nonbinary poet lost in NYC, gains a daddy, and loses a father.
Music? Comedy? Musical Comedy? Join us at the intersection of performing arts! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you *might* even cry from laughter! Anything is possible in this room of gregarious musicians and comedians with harmonicas.
Are you coming home for the funeral? Who left the refrigerator door open? What defines a haunting? In one evening, June, a nonbinary poet lost in NYC, gains a daddy, and loses a father.
Enter into the world of The Abysm, a quaint space located somewhere between here and the beyond, where you will encounter the spirits of those who reflect upon their time spent on this Earth. This one of kind immersive installation experience will be presented with all social distancing guidelines in place, creating a world where you can be absorbed into the Haus of Dust.
The term “song” or “song session” describes the elaborate vocalization structure produced by humpback whales. Song Sessions connects whale and human music. Employing flutes, clarinets, sine-tones, and an LED light installation, four improvisers perform an ever-changing work based on the structure of whale songs. Each performance is unique and distinctive. With flutes played by Isabel Lepanto Gleicher and clarinets played by Eric Umble, the duo improvises as two whales communicating over a vast ocean. The sine-tones, played by Barry Sharp, provide an evolving ambiance that comprises frequencies of oceanic noise pollution. Lastly, Paige Seber utilizes an adaptable light installation manipulated to mimic the ocean in flux and respond in real-time to the performance's dramatic arc.
Fever Dream: A Return Performance Ritual is a new performance work examining our past embodiments of self. Through the accessing of the major spirits who have guided Scout to this point in their life, they attempt to transcend out of their body in order to reach higher ground and greater clarity for the path ahead for all of us.
The term “song” or “song session” describes the elaborate vocalization structure produced by humpback whales. Song Sessions connects whale and human music. Employing flutes, clarinets, sine-tones, and an LED light installation, four improvisers perform an ever-changing work based on the structure of whale songs. Each performance is unique and distinctive. With flutes played by Isabel Lepanto Gleicher and clarinets played by Eric Umble, the duo improvises as two whales communicating over a vast ocean. The sine-tones, played by Barry Sharp, provide an evolving ambiance that comprises frequencies of oceanic noise pollution. Lastly, Paige Seber utilizes an adaptable light installation manipulated to mimic the ocean in flux and respond in real-time to the performance's dramatic arc.
Enter into the world of The Abysm, a quaint space located somewhere between here and the beyond, where you will encounter the spirits of those who reflect upon their time spent on this Earth. This one of kind immersive installation experience will be presented with all social distancing guidelines in place, creating a world where you can be absorbed into the Haus of Dust.
Enter into the world of The Abysm, a quaint space located somewhere between here and the beyond, where you will encounter the spirits of those who reflect upon their time spent on this Earth. This one of kind immersive installation experience will be presented with all social distancing guidelines in place, creating a world where you can be absorbed into the Haus of Dust.
Brought back to her childhood home to care for her grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, Sloane and her husband, Gwyn, are struggling to settle in to a new routine after having their lives uprooted by tragedy. The longer Sloane stays in her grandmother's home, the more secrets and childhood trauma begins to resurface, and the couple soon suspects something deeply sinister is afoot in this small, rural New England town. Good thing their best friend Beckham's there to help sort out the estate... right?
Brought back to her childhood home to care for her grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, Sloane and her husband, Gwyn, are struggling to settle in to a new routine after having their lives uprooted by tragedy. The longer Sloane stays in her grandmother's home, the more secrets and childhood trauma begins to resurface, and the couple soon suspects something deeply sinister is afoot in this small, rural New England town. Good thing their best friend Beckham's there to help sort out the estate... right?
Enter into the world of The Abysm, a quaint space located somewhere between here and the beyond, where you will encounter the spirits of those who reflect upon their time spent on this Earth. This one of kind immersive installation experience will be presented with all social distancing guidelines in place, creating a world where you can be absorbed into the Haus of Dust.
Brought back to her childhood home to care for her grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, Sloane and her husband, Gwyn, are struggling to settle in to a new routine after having their lives uprooted by tragedy. The longer Sloane stays in her grandmother's home, the more secrets and childhood trauma begins to resurface, and the couple soon suspects something deeply sinister is afoot in this small, rural New England town. Good thing their best friend Beckham's there to help sort out the estate... right?
VIRTUAL EVENTS
It’s the end of pride, but that doesn’t mean we’re done celebrating! This show celebrates some of NYC’s best drag kings and quings!
Excerpts from a play-in-progress.
It’s 2am. It’s fall. You’re in the football stadium of a prominent New England university and you’re here to see three lectures spanning three decades: Mr. Lettuce discovers a far-right conspiracy on a gay sex website in the late 90’s; Ms. Beatific runs an ill-fated child beauty pageant in the early 2000’s; Lemon Peignoir prepares for an Office-themed wedding at the dawning of 2010. Everyone is dreaming. Everyone is a haunted house.
The 6th Annual Big Gay Virtual Dance Show is a big gay part of PrideFest at The Tank NYC and co-presented by Gotham Dance Theater. The evening includes original dance works created by LGBTQ+ choreographers include Marc Nuñez (Founder, Director of Gotham Dance Theater) and GDT Artists: Lyndsay Dru Corbett, Nadia Khayrallah, Vivake Khamsingsavath.
Join We Are Trans and host KJ Whitehead for a night of comedy from some badass trans women. Lineup features Sammie James, Violet Gray, Dina Nina Martinez, and Mary Jane French
Are you coming home for the funeral? Who left the refrigerator door open? What defines a haunting? In one evening, June, a nonbinary poet lost in NYC, gains a daddy, and loses a father.
Are you coming home for the funeral? Who left the refrigerator door open? What defines a haunting? In one evening, June, a nonbinary poet lost in NYC, gains a daddy, and loses a father.
All For One Theater & The Tank present the archived world premiere of OPEN by Crystal Skillman. Filmed live at The Tank in June 2019. Directed by Jessi D. Hill. Starring Megan Hill. // OPEN is a magic act that reveals itself to be a resurrection. A woman called The Magician presents a myriad of tricks for our entertainment, yet her performance seems to be attempting the impossible — to save the life of her partner, Jenny. But is our faith in her illusions enough to rewrite the past? The clock is ticking, the show must go on, and as impossible as it may seem, this Magician’s act may be our last hope against a world filled with intolerance and hate.
Brought back to her childhood home to care for her grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, Sloane and her husband, Gwyn, are struggling to settle in to a new routine after having their lives uprooted by tragedy. The longer Sloane stays in her grandmother's home, the more secrets and childhood trauma begins to resurface, and the couple soon suspects something deeply sinister is afoot in this small, rural New England town. Good thing their best friend Beckham's there to help sort out the estate... right?
Brought back to her childhood home to care for her grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, Sloane and her husband, Gwyn, are struggling to settle in to a new routine after having their lives uprooted by tragedy. The longer Sloane stays in her grandmother's home, the more secrets and childhood trauma begins to resurface, and the couple soon suspects something deeply sinister is afoot in this small, rural New England town. Good thing their best friend Beckham's there to help sort out the estate... right?
Brought back to her childhood home to care for her grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, Sloane and her husband, Gwyn, are struggling to settle in to a new routine after having their lives uprooted by tragedy. The longer Sloane stays in her grandmother's home, the more secrets and childhood trauma begins to resurface, and the couple soon suspects something deeply sinister is afoot in this small, rural New England town. Good thing their best friend Beckham's there to help sort out the estate... right?