Funny Uncle Cabaret

About the performance:

In its 25th year of theme and variation, PDM's "Funny Uncle" series adapts this 2025 version to include dance, singing choirs of kids, and a cabaret number or two - all celebrating families we choose, rather than only the ones we are born to.
In addition to PDM's core collaborators performing their own works, guest artist Robert McFletcher Jones will corral several youth from various children's choirs from around the Boston hub to perform. Guests from the region's cabaret scene will offer unique songs not usually considered holidays-related, with musical director Brian Patton on the piano. Peter will perform a miniature dance- hands only! - a retelling of the original Funny Uncle story: the quest for his sister to adopt her daughter through a tangled web of politics that would otherwise stand in the way of the creation of family.

Performance schedule

Saturday, December 13 at 8:00pm

Sunday, December 14 at 7:00pm

This event will take place in Studio 7, which is fully ADA compliant and located on the ground floor of The Dance Complex.

About the artists:

Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion is an intergenerational, interabled performance company, creating works for stage, screen and on-site. Collaborating artists of PDM have created work under Artistic Peter DiMuro's direction at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Gibney Dance/NYC, the Rose Kennedy Greenway and several more conventional theater spaces. Peter DiMuro has created dance/theatre work since the early days of AIDS crisis, often sourcing subject matter from personal histories of his own and other's communities. The "Funny Uncle..." series of performances began 25 years ago as an extension of works that bridged straight and gay experiences, with a focus on the winter holidiays for families of choice.

PDM core collaborators are joined by...

Robert McFletcher Jones

Brian Patton

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