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If you love solo shows and missed the first two performances of CROSSROADS! YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS IT THIS TIME AROUND!
Renée Santos an Alum of Emerson College is coming back to her Alma Mater to make some history with her Solo Show, CROSSROADS!
ONE NIGHT ONLY on Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 6:00pm at EMERSON COLLEGE at 5960 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028.
The most astonishing thing about Renee Santos’s “Crossroads,” a solo show about her life, is that she not only survived everything that happened to her but that it became her superhero origin story. Because to me, after sitting, often slack jawed in utter shock at the details of her journey, it is stunningly clear that she has the super power to still be here with us at all.
But there’s far more to this show than just the story behind it. There is a truly phenomenal artist who cracked open her heart and wrote it, developing a series of beautiful and terrifyingly enchanting techniques to connect every single pivotal unfolding moment to the transformative effect it had on her. She could have taken a simpler approach, a more linear narrative. But instead, she craftily weaves through her life a golden thread of truth and it takes us back and forth in time, through people and events and returns again and again to her present and her profound sense of who she really is…a strength of character as well as a wondrous physical strength and an unmatched grace.
Renee dances, or rather she moves herself in powerful rhythmic ways, holding her body almost still in unbelievable positions that literally show us what her mind and spirit went through. It feels purgative. As an audience, I felt as close as I have ever come to actually experiencing someone else’s pain in a solo performance. She has a magical performative way of silently drawing you into her most intimate discoveries about herself, and these moments that changed her in turn change us. There is no barrier between us. Like the most exquisite interpretation of a psyche, twisted and broken and raw. Her triumphant healing success was utterly transformative to her and if you are fortunate enough to see this brilliant show it may well have the same unforgettable effect. On the night I was there I know I was absolutely not alone in my deeply felt experience, although still, somehow, I felt as if I were the only other person in the room.
Under the genius guidance of the caped crusader herself, Kimleigh Smith, Renee Santos’s revelatory “Crossroads” is an extraordinary epic journey through the life of one woman. Through foster care, brutal assaults, a minefield of gender dysmorphia and on and on, this beautiful, intelligent, funny truth-teller warrior woman opens up her soul for us to see and it is breathtaking… Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros
Kimleigh Smith Director, Producer and Owner of Embrace Your Cape Enterprises says, " I created EYC to help artists own their stories, expand on their creativity, their ability to determine their own artistic path and understand they have a RIGHT to influence social change for themselves and others. This is why it was so important for me to work with Scot Zeller on his beautiful show. He truly embraces all of his story and without pushing, he takes his RIGHT and influences social change for himself and for others. It was a pure honor to watch Scot grow on the stage and I am forever changed by him and his story."
YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS AMAZING SHOW! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: CLICK THE BUY TICKETS BUTTON ABOVE!
*A percentage of all ticket sales will be donated to Climate Carbon Removal!
