September 29 - October 1, 2022

Boy Friday

Evik, on the ground in a studio, reaches upward with one hand. The image is distorted, as if being displayed on a broken TV Effy Grey

You Always Do This to Me

SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 1, 2022
8PM

$20 in advance / $25 at-the-door

 

You Always Do This to Me is a dance-play that finds the Audience and the Performer caught in a tangled relationship. We watch as these not-quite-lovers replay memories of the past, unfurling their circular symbiosis through dance and conversation. Movement winds itself into gestural particulars and releases into stormy unison, and spoken text invokes a lyrical vignette of love, lust, and social disruption. Youthful imagery hides a long and turbulent history in scenes that search for logic in the collision of disparate characters who are bound to each other by forces of circumstance. Like the structure of the piece, the setting is both surreal and familiar–a cozy living room inside the house where all your dreams took place as a child. You Always Do this to Me asks the audience, “How do we keep ending up here together?”

Boy Friday is a New York–based company creating surreal performance experiences charged with social commentary. Situated at the intersection of movement, visual art, and storytelling, our work bends the myth of "normal" into a mirage of queer utopia full of futurity and potentiality. Boy Friday’s theatrical events feel distant yet familiar, inviting audiences to come close and make decisions about the kind of experience they want to have. The common and mundane are ornamented to draw attention to the strange beauty of everyday life, and identity pervades the work with subtle urgency.

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A dancer in a black tutu and leotard and pointe shoes stands on one leg, with the other leg extended behind the body in a straight line. One arm is raised above the head and the other extended to the back parallel to the extended leg. The school director is opposite the dancer and wears a red DTH logo t-shirt and black pants and ballet slippers. She holds the hand of the arm raised above the dancer’s head with one arm and her back arm is extended and she is smiling at the student.

 

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A dancer in a black tutu and leotard and pointe shoes stands on one leg, with the other leg extended behind the body in a straight line. One arm is raised above the head and the other extended to the back parallel to the extended leg. The school director is opposite the dancer and wears a red DTH logo t-shirt and black pants and ballet slippers. She holds the hand of the arm raised above the dancer’s head with one arm and her back arm is extended and she is smiling at the student.

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