10:00 PM . Ishmael Houston-Jones & Emily Wexler, 13 Love Songs: dot dot dot

Choreographer/performers Ishmael Houston-Jones and Emily Wexler will present the premier of their first evening length collaboration, 13 Love Songs: dot dot dot. Separated by a generation — he’s in his 60s she in her 30s, and differing in gender and ethnicity – male, female; black, white, these two innovative dance artists have found common ground in their mutual belief that the pop love song is corrosive. That these songs damage any hope at finding true love with their sickening, cloying, and cheesy lyrics. Houston-Jones and Wexler have researched the lyrics of a drove of pop songs by a host of pop artists as divergent as Bryan Adams and Mary J. Blige; Ja Rule and Stephin Merritt; Aretha and Nina Simone and of course Madonna. They have narrowed their playlist to 13, (or maybe 14 or more); it won’t be pretty; it won’t be polite, but there will be knives.

THURS JAN 9 . 10:00 PM
FRI JAN 10 . 10:00 PM
SAT JAN 11 . 2:30 PM
SUN JAN 12 . 7:00 PM
FRI JAN 17 . 5:30 PM
SAT JAN 18 . 2:30 PM

Run time: 60 minutes

ABRONS ARTS CENTER UNDERGROUND THEATER
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