Hallie Chametzky Premieres "The truth is the truth is the truth is the" at Spark Theatre Festival
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Hallie Chametzky
The truth is the truth is the truth is the
Saturday, March 15th at 5pm
at Emerging Artists Theatre's Spark Theatre Festival
Choreographed, written, directed by Hallie Chametzky
Performers and collaborators: Aviya Hernstadt and Aria Roach
Original Music by Colton Dodd
Dramaturgy by Stephanie Saywell
The truth is the truth is the truth is the is a a new, hour-long dance theater exploration of famed modernist writers and queer Jews Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. The work grapples with their complex artistic and political legacies and questions the concepts of genius and biographical accuracy. The script, score, and movement are derived from Stein and Toklas’s writings, contemporary and postmodern dance, and theatrical devising methods.
It’s about Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, but it’s also about how our readings of history often say more about our contemporary concerns than they do about history’s “truths.” It’s about the continuous present and beginning again and again and again. It’s about when queerness and radical art are there but so are fascist sympathies and sexism. It’s about art that tells you something but does it in a way that leaves you with more questions than answers.
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