Miguel Gutierrez

After the Second Fuck You

Main Theater
April 27 – 29, 2023

After the Second Fuck You – engages performers from New York and Los Angeles – Justin Faircloth (NYC), Wendell Gray (NYC), Ajani Brannum (LA), and Evelyn Sanchez (LA). Together we examine questions of archive, memory, and how context moves us into relation with ourselves and each other. Delving into rehearsal footage from previous works, we identify the moments in-between action: awkward conversations, waiting for things to happen, unexpected pauses. These in-between moments offer unspoken possibilities and anxieties. How does the present re-shape our view of the past? How does the past tell us something about how bodies are changing? By toggling the lens of attention between the past and the present, this research project into performance is a marker and an examination of the challenges in coming together now.