Note: All three works presented each night.

The New Original Works Festival continues with works by Carole Kim, Marsian De Lellis, and d. Sabela grimes. 

CAROLE KIM: THE SINGING HEAD
Multi-media artist Carole Kim concocts an intoxicating visual world, using multi-layered projection surfaces, scrims and beautifully constructed sculptural costume pieces. Evocative dancers Oguri and Roxanne Steinberg bring the environment to life, enveloped by a submersive soundscape created by vocalist Carmina Escobar, bassist Mark Dresser and sound designer Paul Chavez. The complex and rich live video imagery is inspired by depictions of single-celled oceanic organisms, radiolaria, by Ernst Haeckel, a 19th-century biologist, philosopher and artist.

MARSIAN DE LELLIS: OBJECT OF HER AFFECTION
A woman who falls in love with inanimate objects discovers that the Golden Gate Bridge has been cheating on her in Marsian De Lellis’ latest table-top puppetry creation. Since her first love-affair — with a baby blanket — Andrea Lowe’s heightened affection has led to a complicated relationship history. Directed by Michele Spears, Object of Her Affection uses puppetry and object theater to explore the oversimplification of sexual identity and attraction, tracing Andrea’s unending search for true love. 

"A strong idosyncratic personal aesthetic" —Puppetry International
“Demented, touching, and inherently strange” —Flavorpill

D. SABELA GRIMES: ELECTROGYNOUS
Compelling sound and movement artist d. Sabela grimes transcends the realms of Hip Hop and Afrofuturism in his genre-defying work Electrogynous, mixing poetry, street dance and infectious, otherworldly soundscapes to question hyper-stereotypes of masculinity and femininity in contemporary Black cultures. With technical precision and a keen theatrical intelligence, he draws from sensationalized events and personal anecdotes to engage and implicate the audience with questions on Black male power, sexuality and vulnerability.