Performa/Dance presents ANTHROPOCENE AKA: Oh the Humanity! AKA: The Big Wah Wah!

Name: Performa/Dance presents ANTHROPOCENE AKA: Oh the Humanity! AKA: The Big Wah Wah!
Start: 2025-08-15T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-15T21:00:00-05:00
Location: AustinVentures Studio Theater

Schedule

Fri Aug 15 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

AustinVentures Studio Theater | Austin, TX

August 15 @ 7:30pm
August 16 @ 4pm (ASL) and 7:30pm
Performa/Dance celebrates its 10th season with ANTHROPOCENE, an ambitious new dance theatre work that interrogates, with equal doses of humor, anxiety, grief, and wonder, how we became comfortable with the end of the world.
Taking a slightly absurdist, wholly penetrating viewpoint, ANTHROPOCENE examines, through allegory, humanity's tendency to put itself dead center at the expense of other life forms through surreal scenes at a beach, in a laboratory, in one disaffected young woman's fevered monologue, at a family dinner table, and in a hospital room.
Performa/Dance has assembled a stellar artistic team that spans Austin’s cultural scene. Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw, director/playwright, Co-Artistic Director of Rude Mechs; Kelsey Oliver, experimental dance and theatre maker; and, Performa/Dance’s own Artistic Director, Jennifer Hart, have collaborated to bring this work to life. Composer Henna Chou, lighting and set designer Stephen Pruitt, and set and design collaborator Tor Reynolds round out the artistic team. Performers also come from all corners of Austin’s rich dance community, including Angel Blanco, Cellise Brown, Alexa Capareda, Jairus Carr, Aida Hernandez Reyes, Arnaldo Hernandez, Taryn Lavery, Clay Moore, Tikiri Shapiro, and Kanami Nakabayashi Timpe.
The performance runs approximately 66 minutes with ASL interpretation August 16th at 4pm. Spanish translation will also be provided. This project has been funded in part by the City of Austin's Elevate Grant Program.