Join MZD for an evening featuring performances from artists Tia Ashley Kushniruk 亚 女弟 and Arash Khakpour-The Biting School!
Double Bill:
a practise: Misinterpretation (a performance) | Tia Ashley Kushniruk 亚 女弟
Melon Piece | Arash Khakpour-The Biting School (Vancouver)
Through play and performance, these two pieces creatively confront abundance, identity, and time in unexpected and complex ways.
October 18 +19
7:30 PM
Price $30/$25 members
PERFORMANCE
a practise: Misinterpretation (a performance) | Tia Ashley Kushniruk 亚 女弟
An Absurdist duet involving two mixed race, androgynous and WILDLY SEXY artists practising and performing contemporary Whiteness for yours/theirs/GODS pleasure!
CREATIVE TEAM
Created by Tia Ashley Kushniruk 亚 女弟 and Philip Geller
Rehearsal Assistant: Jake W. Hastey
Sound Design: Philip Geller and Jon Kereliuk
Lighting Design and Stage Manager: Trent Crosby
Avant Premiere: Mile Zero 24/25, Edmonton AB
World Premiere: Fluid Festival 2024, Calgary AB
Special Thanks: Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Sweet Action Theatre, Nathaniel “Natty” Justanio, Clarke Blair, Joe Rogan, Jonathan Burrows, and SGSDance
PERFORMANCE
Melon Piece | Arash Khakpour-The Biting School (Vancouver)
Melon Piece is a symbolic portrayal of human dilemmas. It is a story about the primal and maturing self in constant transformation. It is a study of our contradictory desires—those we choose to act upon, and the ones we suppress and repress—through different stages of our lives.
The performer unearths embodied memories of love, joy and play to create a distracting playground of desire to drown in. Melon Piece is a living portrait of a man finding himself lost in a world of abundance.
You are born. There’s your brain. There, are your memories. It is red. It is a melon.
When life hands you melons… you take them… you…