Sunday, August 18 at 7 PM
The Theatre at Ace Hotel // Downtown Los Angeles
Join us for a special glimpse at a new performance exploring the space that our desire and longing inhabit while rehearsing perseverance.
Responding to the iconic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc, Rachel Jendrzejewski and Zoe Aja Moore collaborate to create an embodied investigation of the fraught relationship between feminism and emotion, from Joan of Arc’s day to current political moments.
For this special one-night event, PASSION takes over the opulent Theatre at the Ace Hotel. In its heyday, silent film was often seen as a congregation, a gathering of an audience for a nonverbal event that led to a spiritual experience. PASSION gathers a congregation in a former silent movie palace, but with no film and no iconography — ultimately inviting us to face each other and ourselves.
Featuring: Dorothy Dubrule, Jessica Emmanuel, Brigid Gallagher, Mireya Lucio, Gabriella Rhodeen
Also featuring recorded excerpts of a live score by Julia Holter for Dreyer’s film, performed by Julia, Corey Fogel, Devin Hoff, Dina Maccabee, and Tashi Wada.
PASSION is commissioned by Los Angeles Performance Practice with support in part from an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.This project is made possible, in part, through a grant from the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ Travel & Exchange Network (NET/TEN), supported by lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with support from The Playwrights’ Center, and by funds provided by the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC) through a grant from The McKnight Foundation.
Thank you to the 120 backers who supported this project on Kickstarter.
Image: Mireya Lucio in rehearsal. Photo by Chris Kuhl.
