Kayla Farrish's "Put Away the Fire, dear" (NY Premiere) at Chelsea Factory
Company:
Kayla Farrish
Put Away the Fire, dear at Chelsea Factory
March 6 - 8, 2025 @ 7:30pm
Created by Kayla Farrish in collaboration with cast: Jessica Alexander, Makaila Chiplin, Kayla Farrish Martell Ruffin, Junyla Silmon, Christian Warner
Designers: Live Music and Score- Alex MacKinnon, Scenic Design- Dyer Rhoads, Lighting- Yannick Godts, and Film Elements- Jessica Ray and Garrett Parker (and Kayla Farrish), Costumes by Caitlin Taylor
Put Away the Fire, dear is a group dance-theater work unraveling American Cinema, in which 6 marginalized characters defy their inherited roles and reimagine new narratives for themselves.
Jumping through portals spanning reality and cinema, they change the lens, uprooting power and their distorted existence.
We connect with those of the past like Zora Neale Hurston, Oscar Michaux, Ethel Waters, Bojangles and onwards…
This work invites BIPOC audiences to see their worlds reflected, and offers liberation in dreaming of our our unwritten stories.
In 100 minutes, this wild dance-theater production breaks down whose imagination we are living in with shifting scenic design by Dyer Rhoads and live music by Alex MacKinnon.
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