PhysFestNYC Presents: How to BDSM // Petite Mort // Who's Your Daddy? (Split Bill)

How to BDSM

How to BDSM is the seminar you all signed up for! Come learn with very serious educator Dr. Professor Scholar Visiting Lecturer (and newly tenured at Oxford) Brooke Ferris, as she demonstrates the world of BDSM. Join her as she explores things such as consent, flogging, handcuffs, bondage, penis shaped peppers, singing and more! A clown show celebrating aging feminine sexuality, physicality, and stuff created by Brooke Ferris, co-devised and directed by Rachel Resnik.

BROOKE FERRIS is an actress and singer most recently seen at Clown Gym’s Clown Flex and The Hot Festival at Dixon Place with her show How to BDSM, which was co-devised and directed by Rachel Resnik. She has also been seen in the A Really Real Serious Play series at Pine Box Rock Shop and Dixon Place. Off-Broadway, Brooke was in Babel, an acrobatic-theatrical-dance piece, and off-off Broadway at the Duplex in her solo shows Brooke Ferris: On Fire! Don’t Put Me Out and You Must Be Under 5’ Tall To Ride This Ride, as well as with Harmonic Proposal.

RACHEL RESNIK (Director) is a clown known for her solo comedy shows which she has toured internationally. Rachel holds a certification in physical theater from The School for Theater Creators where she trained under Paola Coletto, and has also trained with Phillipe Gaulier. She is the Production Manager of Clown Gym. Of her work, a reviewer once wrote: “Ever been to a wedding where the bridesmaid is so drunk she makes the kind of cringe-worthy speech that makes your blood curdle? That’s Rachel Resnik, only there’s wit and gender commentary below the clever veil of champagne.”-The Advertiser (Adelaide Fringe, 2019).

A Really Real Serious Collective fosters extremely serious work in New York City under the direction of Rachel Resnik. This collective has members whose work explores clown, the absurdities of life, and the poetry of the ridiculous. We are really pretentious. Like really, really pretentious. Don’t laugh at us. Monthly shows can be seen at Pine Box Rock Shop in Brooklyn on the third Thursday of every month.

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La Petite Mort

A young woman wittingly summons Desire and must deal with the consequences when it works in this solo piece by Giovanna Dalla Vecchia. La Petite Mort is a solo coming-of-age piece about navigating one's sexual awakening. Following Giovanna's poetical journey through childhood in her bilingual anthology O MEU AMOR É UM PÉ DE AMORA (My Love is a Blackberry Tree), Giovanna continues her journey moving into adolescence and one's encounter with pleasure. La Petite Mort is not only a play on the French euphemism for orgasm but also the death of your younger self so you can continue to blossom.

GIOVANNA DALLA VECCHIA is a storyteller who believes in art as a form of healing. Giovanna uses poetry and performance as instruments for investigating the inner workings of one’s soul. Her work revolves around the belief that we all have a garden inside us worthy of care and blossoming. You can find her on Instagram @FLORESEREIS, on her website FLORESEREIS.COM, or most probably underneath a blackberry tree.

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Who's Your Daddy?

Elektra has killed her mother, no that was her brother, or maybe she's killed herself? "Who's your Daddy?" is an adaptation of the Elektra story made love to, chewed up and spit out on the other side trans rebirth. Using puppetry and found text the internal battle the trans spirit undergoes enters the physical world to be witnessed and experienced. In the moment of murder in the birthing bed longing, vengeance and hope tumbles forth in a kaleidescope of memory. Occuring both before, during and after the piece interogates our relationships to our past selves and asks when is the cost of claiming your full self worth the destruction of your world and the self you've built.

Gagarin is a do-everything-and-anything theater artist who always dreams of making the show then mangling it beyond recognition. They are deeply inspired by the body as a vehicle for story and an instrument that serves us when words fail. With a hunger for classical theater and all your favorite old stories they believe that the answers to our questions today lie in our past. Gagarin is currently a Curator at Hedgepig Ensemble Theater, where they work to establish gender parity in the classical canon. In their spare time they also run a movement collective for multidisciplinary artists to connect with their bodies!

Reuven Gleezer (Director)
Reuven Isaiah Glezer is a Brooklyn-based director-writer and illusions designer of new and
classic theatrical work. They've developed work at/with The Neighborhood, the Mercury Store, the Tank, the Brick, the Maker’s Ensemble, Exquisite Corpse, Target Margin, and the Baruch Performing Arts Center, and have been a finalist for Pipeline PlayLab, Woven Theatre’s The Loom, LABA at the 14th Street Y, Wingspace, and was briefly a corporate clown with Nightdrive. They're also the artistic director of Sparklet! @reuvenglezer and @sparkletprods on the funny picture place (Instagram).

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PhysFestNYC is a community-focused festival that celebrates, enriches, and envisions our field of physical theaters. As an annual gathering, provides space for practitioners, audiences, and the physical-theater-curious to share in presented works, diverse workshop offerings, and community-building events.

Broken Box Mime Theater's mission is to activate the imagination of our audiences, contemporize the art of mime, and remind us all of the power of simple storytelling.