The Spring 2021 season of premieres commissioned by BAC includes a series of live-streamed talks with the artists about their projects and creative processes.
In conjunction with the premiere of The Sprezzaturameron, Tei Blow talks with new media performance scholar Andrew Kircher. They will be joined by Blow's collaborator Sean McElroy, co-founder of Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble.
Blow and Kircher first connected at The Public Theater, where Kircher directed the Devised Theater Working Group that Blow was a part of, and later via engagements with New York City College of Technology and Under the Radar Festival. Kircher's forthcoming long-form publication, WTFLOL: Devised Theater and Computers will feature and expand upon the Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble body of work.
The Sprezzaturameron is available to watch free, on demand May 17-31, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.
BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.
Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.
As of January, 2021.
Tei Blow
Tei Blow is a performer, educator, and media designer based in New York. Blow’s work incorporates photography, video, and sound culled from found materials and mass media.
Andrew Kircher
Andrew Kircher is a creative producer, dramaturg, and scholar of live and new media performance. Current collaborators include 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Flako Jimenez, Janani Balasubramanian, and Lorelei Ramirez.
Sean McElroy
Sean McElroy holds a degree in Classics from Brown University and a degree in Painting from the University of Washington. He uses sculpture, installation and performance to explore mythologies of love, power and pleasure.