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"VOICES" International Theatre Festival
coming to Jersey City
Theater Center!
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First performance is this Friday,
June 2! WHEN: June 2 through June 15
WHERE: Jersey City Theater Center, 165 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302 (Entrance from Barrow St., Jersey City, NJ, 07302)
Tickets are available at www.JCTCenter.org.
Seats are limited on a first-come, first-served basis. Voices International Theater Festival presented in partnership with Rehearsal for Truth and Polish Cultural Institute NY and is supported by public funds from the Jersey City Arts and Culture Fund.
Support provided by VisitNJ. Sponsored by M&T Bank and Romanian Cultural Institute.
This program is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. DeGise, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners.
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Free and open to the public. Suggested donation of $10. Seats are limited on a first-come, first-served basis. Online
registration is required.
Present: Perfect explores the
complex gestures through which we relate to symbols of our own past to
forge senses of cultural identity.
Set in a museum of our collective memory, the play’s design invites the
audience to explore a collection featuring valuable artifacts that
commemorate alternative versions of key historical moments. Even with the
guidance of the performers, it is, however, hard to determine which events
are important, which are good to remember, and which are better to forget.
The space slowly transforms into a bizarre “rage room” where events of the
distant past return to the contemporary and forgotten history pervades
current affairs.
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Immerse yourself in the
tranquility and majesty of north Indian ragas played on the 20-stringed
Indian slide guitar.
Join Joel Veena for a festive evening of Hindustani classical ragas played
on the Indian slide guitar, accompanied on tabla by Mir Naqibul Islam.
During the interval, enjoy shopping at a pop-up handicrafts bazaar by
Vidhiism, chai and Indian snacks.
Rich melodies, colorful fabrics
and delicious aromas blend together to offer an enchanting evening
celebrating the beauty of the Indian subcontinent.
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The women of Warsaw tremble with
the rumor of a strangler on the prowl. Behind their fear, unspoken secrets
and traumas begin to surface. Set in the landscape of a true crime story
from 1970s Poland, Bowie in Warsaw is an absurd comedy about the repression
of self-expression and love in the Soviet era. Playwright Dorota Maslowska
constructs a fantastical and baroque world to be one day visited by none
other than David Bowie himself.
Seats
are limited on a first-come, first-served basis. Voices International
Theater Festival presented in partnership with Rehearsal for Truth and
Polish Cultural Institute NY.
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A dance performance as a form of
somatic protest and viscous disobedience in light of the current aggression
of the Russian government. Russian artists Elena Demyanenko and Tarik
Burnash examine the notion of the rapidly disappearing past and their need to
negotiate the unknown, absurd, madness, inhibition, and rage while
searching for release into another approach for moving forward and finding
their resistance.
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the other side is a way to comprehend through
the body, an act of survival, and a sustainable means of making a
difference within the upheaval of deeply dark, angry, ugly, and insecure
times.
Developed
in JCTC's residency.
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Free and open to the public.
Suggested donation of $10. Seats are limited on a first-come, first-served
basis. Online registration is required.
The story of a Roma girl who
discovers at a very young age the differences of race and environment. She
manages to make her way through life and transform her complexes into
determination and motivation through the power of therapeutic exercise.
Alina Serban’s autobiographical
performance hovers on the borderline between life and theater, between
experience and confession, effecting an authenticity to the point of
becoming a fragment of reality. The show impresses audiences of all ages by
inviting empathy. The Best Child in the World speaks about the power of
achieving the impossible and the effort to make peace with the past
together with one's own identity, one's own life, one's mother, one's
father.
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Free
and open to the public. Suggested donation $10. Seats are limited on a
first-come, first-served basis. Online registration is required.
POOL is a collaborative fusion of performance, visual art, and
documentary that explores the male gaze, self-objectification, and how
power shifts as we move between looking, seeing, and being seen. In a
society that sees self-objectification of the feminine as both encouraged
and derided by the dominant culture and its critics alike, internalized
oppression is erased. POOL sets out to bring this intergenerational
wounding into view.
In POOL, the unmet
needs of patriarchy’s citizens are isolated, magnified, and transferred
into a fabricated system in which the characters struggle with their
perceived deficits according to an unexpected set of rules. On stage
covered with rows of Barbie dolls, four performers enact a vivid triptych:
two men competing to satisfy their own narcissism; a ghost of a woman whose
shattered identity lives among the infinite gazes of men; and a young girl
whose solid, stable presence throws into high relief the others’
disturbances.
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Voices International Theater Festival presented in partnership with
Rehearsal for Truth and Polish Cultural Institute NY and is supported by
public funds from the Jersey City Arts and Culture Fund.
Support
provided by VisitNJ. Sponsored by M&T Bank and Romanian Cultural
Institute.
This program is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and
administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage
Affairs, Thomas A. DeGise, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County
Board of County Commissioners.
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SUPPORTED
BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE JERSEY CITY ARTS AND CULTURE TRUST FUND.
These
events are made possible by numerous supporters, including the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the devision of the Department of State,
the NJ Cultural Trust, the Hudson County Office of Cultural &
Heritage Affairs partner agency to NJ Council on the Arts,
Thomas Denise, Hudson County Executive and the Hudson County Board of
Commissioners, Jersey City Arts Council through the National Endowments for
the Arts. Thank you to the JCTC's dedicated board members and all of you
for supporting the arts.
For
those who are interested in attending any of the performances, sponsoring
any of the upcoming productions, rent the facilities, or purchasing tickets
for large groups, please email: info@jctcenter.org
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