This January 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, Big Art Group will present our first new group work since 2009, Broke House. We need your help to pay our company for these performances. Help us raise $5000 directly on our site! We’ve listed below the levels and benefits for your donation. Come join us in creating critical and cultural space.
Join Big Art Group in making this new work by donating now!
Backers of 500 or more:
Your name listed under “audience co-producers” in the program/website, a Contemporary Performance Tote Bag, a limited edition CD of The Sleep, access to our online creation website where you can follow the groups blogs and videos of the development of the piece, 2 complimentary tickets to the show, an invitation to the opening night toast backstage and a signed and numbered 16×20 inch print from the work (limit 10).
Backers of 250 or more (2 Backers):
Your name listed under “audience co-producers” in the program/website, a Contemporary Performance Tote Bag, a limited edition CD of The Sleep, access to our online creation website where you can follow the groups blogs and videos of the development of the piece, 2 complimentary tickets to the show and an invitation to the opening night toast backstage.
Backers of 100 or more (9 Backers):
Your name listed under “audience co-producers” in the program/website, a Contemporary Performance Tote Bag, a limited edition CD of The Sleep, an invitation to join our online creation website where you can follow our blogs and videos of the development of the piece, and 2 complimentary tickets to the show.
Backers of 50 or more (11 Backers):
Your name listed under donors in the program/website, a Contemporary Performance Tote Bag, and a limited edition CD of The Sleep.
Backers of 25 or more (22 Backers):
Your name listed under donors in the program/website and a Contemporary Performance Tote Bag.
Backers of 10 or more (1 Backer):
Your name listed under donors in the program/website.
Or click the donate button below and name your own level of backing donation:
BIG ART GROUP
BROKE HOUSE
American Realness Festival
ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street / tickets $15 / AbronsArtsCenter.org
THURS JAN 5 & 12 8:30PM
SAT JAN 7 9:30PM
FRI JAN 13 8:30PM
SAT JAN 14 7:00PM
Run time : 75 minutes
Broke House is the new performance by Big Art Group in response to Chekhov’s Three Sisters (not an adaptation). It explores social aspects of modernity and time: the frustration of social progress and the problem of presence in a world compromised by the virtual. From a bare stage the company constructs and dismantles the wooden skeleton of a house as they simultaneously film a documentary of its residents. Issues about the tragic entrapment of nostalgia and the futility of escapist fantasies of the future play out through colliding and disintegrating stories refracted across Big Art Group’s sculptural scenography and lightning fast Real Time Film matrix.
“True to their name, Big Art Group’s performances are big in every possible way: prismatic visuals hurtle across a panoply of screens, dazzling with flashing colors; strange conjunctions of video imagery captured live by a battery of cameras and spliced together in real time, ambush the eye; digital soundscapes thrum, groan, and roar at synesthesia-inducing volumes.” – Jacob Gallagher-Ross, The Drama Review
Created by Caden Manson, Jemma Nelson, Big Art Group
Direction and Scenography by Caden Manson
Sound by Jemma Nelson
Performed by David Commander, Nicholas Gorham, Heather Litteer, Willie Mullins, Matthew Nasser, Edward Stresen-Reuter, Rebecca Sumner Burgos
Technical Director and Lighting Design by Hillery Makatura
Assistant Director Kathleen Amshoff and Patrick Vassel
Video System Design by Caden Manson and Jared Mezzocchi
Video System Tech Dan Hansell
Sculpture Caden Manson and Jeffrey Ralston
Intern Milo Cramer
Broke House is produced by Big Art Group with support from King’s Fountain and NYSCA
Supported by Desi Santiago, Ted Henigson, theARTcorps, Ryan Davis, Alan Cumming, joan Raspo, Drew Brody, William Lynn, Julie Tolentino, Hill Family, Ivan Gothner and Betsy Davison, Alyssa Fannick, Robert Litteer, Jen Parker-Starbuck, Sean Pierce and Lucy Pierce and Theo Kogan, paul gardner, John Issendorf, Grant Shaffer, Jill Emerson, Brian Bauman, Amy Sadao, Mambo Movers, Ryan Sorkin, Linsey Bostwick, Mikeah Ernest Jennings, Ilaria Mancia