By Harunalee Theater Company Memory Palace Designed by Gregory Laffey Costumes by Karen Boyer
Food from neighborhood vendors will be served.
*seating is extremely limited: advance purchase highly recommended
To the left of the pantry and below the sugar shack is a Memory Palace. It’s a little bit cosmos and a little bit party, carefully designed and built so you can crawl into it at your leisure. Its rooms are the loci of fantastical images, contributed by a range of artists exploring the magic and meaning of memory. Fill your own palace with images until ours dissolves with yours.
harunalee has built their very own Memory Palace, which is a little bit cosmos and a little bit party, carefully designed and built so you can crawl into it at your leisure. Its familiar yet illusory rooms are the loci of fantastical images, contributed by a range of invited artists, working in various mediums exploring the magic and meaning of memory. Inspired by Francis Yates' seminal text on the occult nature of memory systems during the Renaissance aptly titled The Art of Memory, we invite you into a mind ancient in design, but contemporary in its contemplations.
Each night, a cluster of eclectic downtown artists working in various mediums- from poetry, music, dance, magic, neuroscience, drag & more- will share a brand new piece of work inspired by original memories that have been submitted by YOU: our audience and artistic community!
Friday, February 12th
Waeli Wang - Dance Ryann Weir & Andrew Farmer - Theater Chris Tyler - Theater
Fran Tirado - Poetry Will Davis - Dance Kathryn Hathaway - Music Camilo Roldan - Poetry
Wednesday, February 17th
Waeli Wang - Dance Chris Tyler - Theater Kathryn Hathaway - Music
Thursday, February 18th
Vinny DePonto - Mentalist Lacy Rose - Music
Friday, February 19th
Andrew Bartels - Poetry Sayer Mansfield - Dance Bombay Rickey - Music
Saturday, February 20th
Sonja Blum - Neuroscience Lecture Eric Conroe - Dance James Monaco & Jerome Ellis - Music/Theater
Sunday, February 21st
Corvette LeFace - Burlesque Lacy Rose - Music Jeanna Phillips & Ian Axness - Music/Theater The Dance Cartel - Dance Storm Thomas, Jessie Shelton, Eamon Goodman, Eric Farber, Freddy Epstein - The Band
PRESS
“So full of impulses and ideas and splendid, fractious energy” -New York Times
“harunalee explores the terrifying unknown with a gaudy richness that left me swimming in images and then drowning in personal reflection.” - Culturebot
“By juxtaposing and ultimately marrying the mythic and the mundane, [harunalee] creates something completely new—and distinctly feminine.” - Stagebuddy
About the Artists
harunalee is an ensemble of New York based performers and designers collaborating across artistic disciplines to create experimental plays and performances written by Kristine Haruna Lee since 2010. Visit their website for more information.
harunalee is Stivo Arnoczy, Sasha Arutyunova, Andrew R. Butler, Kristine Haruna Lee, Sarah Lurie, Lauren Swan-Potras