Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center
Jan. 21st, 2010
Admission: Sliding Scale $6-$12
Start Time: 8:00pm
A Dozen Things I want to do on stage is a new one-woman cabaret by Rebecca Nagle. Of the dozen, Nagle will undress to "Wenn Ich Mir Was Wünschen Dürfte", fit in a small box, tell your secrets, discuss why something is racist, fall in love, read her fantasies, act out your fantasies, induce a tragedy, fall down, take truth serum while letting the audience ask her questions, tell a tall tale, and disembowel herself.
Using the format of 1920’s political European cabaret, A Dozen Things combines contortion, burlesque, poetry, games, lecture, ritual, confession, audience participation, science experiments, real-life moments and staged performance to deliver hard truths, half-truths and straight up lies. The cabaret plays with the familiar themes and tropes of the human condition, namely: sexuality, violence, fantasy, love, tragedy, ecstasy, history, and death. Nagle pits reality and action against fantasy and performance for an all out social deconstructionist battle.
Rebecca Nagle is a performance, new media and community artist. She grew up in Kansas. She is an internationally exhibited and collected artist with works in the New Museum, NY and Ssamzie Art Warehouse, South Korea. Nagle has shown at Current Gallery, Art in General, Site Santa Fe, Artscape, and Conflux Festival. She was hailed by Baltimore City's Paper's senior arts editor Bret McCabe as "Baltimore's very own life-is-art-is-life performance maven…mingling the internet and performance into a fresh and vital new thing". Rebecca's art projects challenge people around issues of intimacy, the body, power, boundaries and efficacy. She is currently trying to make the world a more open, equitable and creative place through community organizing and radical performance art.
Their lineup consists of a list of some of the most proven artists in the area:
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A chance to cut a rug, and learn some swing dance moves. There will be an hour long swing dance lesson, and then Bruiser and the Virtues will get you movin to the beat. Tunes range from the rockin’ jump-blues of T-Bone Walker, to Booker T and the MGs, to Bruiser originals. One of the true gems of the regional music scene. 