The 16th Annual New Original Works Festival kicks off with a program of works by Sola Bamis; zach dorn and Danielle Dahl; Katherine Helen Fisher and Andrew Ondrejcak. 

Sola Bamis: The Tutorial Part II: The White Tears Tea Steam

Performance artist Sola Bamis presents The Tutorial Part II: The White Tears Tea Steam, a continuation of her revolutionary skincare routine and digital litany for Womanist survival. Mixing infamous tweets, personal videos, and original text, Bamis introduces her new digital alter ego @racheldolezall, who provides insight to the makings of a Strong Black Woman—delivering a 28-day regimen for improved complexion, an explosive critique of Hollywood colorism, and a vital prescription for blk women’s self-love and expression.

zach dorn and Danielle Dahl: Sponge Hollow

Visual and performing artist zach dorn artfully manipulates a table-top platform filled with elaborate cardboard dioramas and a Lionel train set in Sponge Hollow, a multimedia live-action graphic novel. Accompanied by composer Danielle Dahl, live projected video seamlessly invites audiences to venture into a Florida swamp and witness the destruction of a tourist-ridden town from the window of the moving O-scale train. Along the way, we encounter the world’s largest sponge and a man obsessed with the television drama Gilmore Girls.

Katherine Helen Fisher and Andrew Ondrejcak:The Muses

Pulsating to the imagistic nature of Helado Negro’s cosmic synth-folk sounds, choreographer Katherine Helen Fisher’s new work The Muses renders a suite of lush and riotous dances that conjures a communal space in celebration of the divine feminine. The Muses combines visuals by inventive artist Andrew Ondrejcak, whose works link historical art objects with contemporary iconography, often with a queer perspective on classical forms.

All three works will be presented each night.

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