The Exponential Fest Presents: The Mushroom

The Exponential Festival presents The Mushroom by Normandy Sherwood & Nikki Calonge

The Mushroom. It is a radial play with spokes pointing outward. Or an explosion of spores in the form of an evening at the theater. It is a pageant that gives a micro view of the forest floor. It has to do with awe and decadence and the question: "What knows it's alive?"

Co-directed by Normandy Sherwood and Nikki Calonge

Writing and Production Design by Normandy Sherwood

Choreography by Nikki Calonge

Lighting Design by Christina Tang

Lead Image Credits: Nikki Calonge & Normandy Sherwood

Find them: @normandyraven @nikkicalonge www.thedrunkardswife.com

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The Mushroom shape-shifts from a pageant that gives a micro view of the forest floor, to an incantation, to an inchworm tap-dance and on to many other mushroom tragedies and horrors, which add up to a larger display of our fascination and fear of porousness and fragmentation. It features dancing, successions of lacy meshes, and costumes that are scenic pieces.

CW: This show contains audience walking upstairs during performance​.

The Mushroom would like to thank Foundation For Contemporary Arts Creative Research Fund, A.R.T./ New York Fund for Small Theaters.​

The Exponential Festival is a 501c3 January performance festival for NYC-based artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. theexponentialfestival.org

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