Fishback--BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange Announces AIR Works in Progress Showcase

See BAX's 2010-2011 Artists in Residence showcase works in progress as they prepare for the AIR FESTIVAL in April 2011. Stay after the performance for a moderated discussion.

THURSDAY - January 20 @ 8:00 PM
Dan Fishback and Mina Nishimura

FRIDAY - January 21 @ 8:00 PM
Levi Gonzalez and Catharine Dill

SATURDAY - January 22 @ 8:00 PM
Mina Nishimura and Levi Gonzalez

SUNDAY - January 23 @ 6:00 PM
Dan Fishback and Catharine Dill

Tickets
In advance (online): $12 General | $7 Low-Income
At the Door (30 minutes before showtime): $15 General | $8 Low-Income

Dan Fishback -- Dan Fishback has been writing and performing in New York City since 2003. His most recent play, You Will Experience Silence (Stephen Brackett, dir.) debuted to critical acclaim in April 2009 at Dixon Place, where Fishback was an Artist-in-Residence. Fishback has performed and developed previous work at Performance Space 122, Joe's Pub, Galapagos Art Space and various of other venues in New York and abroad. He is currently developing two new theater pieces: The Material World, a pop musical about socialist Jews in the 1920s, and thirtynothing, a solo performance about growing up in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.
Also a performing songwriter, Fishback began his music career in the East Village's anti-folk scene. As a solo artist, Fishback has released several recordings, and will drop his new full length studio album, Mammal, in 2011.
Fishback received the Franklin Furnace Fund grant for performance art in 2010 and the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists in 2007. He is an Artist-in-Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and has enjoyed previous residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Fishback visits colleges all over the country to lead workshops on solo performance, and to speak on queer and Jewish issues.

In his new multi-media solo performance, thirtynothing, Dan Fishback juxtaposes tales from the early years of the AIDS epidemic with tales from his own childhood in the 1980s and early 90s. Searching for role models and father figures amongst gay artists who died in those years, Fishback interacts with images of their work, dramatizing the generation gap between older and younger gay men. Marking both the 30th anniversary of AIDS and Fishback's 30th birthday, thirtynothing memorializes the fallen while posing critical questions to all who survive.

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