Raja Feather Kelly / The Feath3r Theory: WEDNESDAY

DANCE / THEATER
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 – 4, 2021
8:00 PM

New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan

$15-$25
https://newyorklivearts.org/event/wednesday-dec-2021/

Dog Day Afternoon was one of the first (relatively) sympathetic presentations of LGBTQ characters in mainstream American cinema (Glen or Glenda was rather outré) — but it was still told by people hijacking other people's narrative. The outrageous choreographer/theatermaker Raja Feather Kelly reexamines — indeed reimagines — the material from a queer perspective, resulting in a fantasia where the film's psychological realism meets pop soap opera — and issues like representation, appropriation, and cultural marginalization and exclusion are explored (do NOT expect a knee-jerk argument that only people like the subject are entitled to tell a story). But most important, this will be much more fun than the foregoing rather dry recitation might lead you to expect.

MAKE A NOTE OF IT: Vietnamese fusion, not quite as good as at the best new Vietnamese Wave places but still worth trying, at Omai.