Alverno Presents Okwui Okpokwasili: Bronx Gothic

Alverno Presents brings Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic to the Pitman Theatre on Friday, February 12 and Saturday, February 13 at 8:00 p.m. Bronx Gothic tells the story of two girls living in the Bronx in the 1980s. Bronx Gothic lives at the intersection of theater, dance and visual art. Okpokwasili’s intensely physical performance throbs with a power that threatens to break the body in this chronicle of one woman’s past. Drawing inspiration from Victorian-era novels and West African griot storytelling, Bronx Gothic reveals a powerful tale of sexual self-discovery, the (brown) body in transformation — and its accompanying humor, strangeness and love.

Okpokwasili is a New York-based writer, performer and choreographer. In partnership with collaborator Peter Born, Okpokwasili creates multidisciplinary projects. Their second collaboration, Bronx Gothic, won a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Production and continues to tour nationally and internationally. In June of 2014, they presented an installation entitled Bronx Gothic: The Oval as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s River to River Festival.

Please note: this production contains material suitable for mature audiences.

Tickets are $30 and are available online at http://alvernopresents.alverno.edu or at the Alverno Presents box office at 414-382-6044. The box office is open Monday-Friday from noon to 6 p.m., and on the day of the performance from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

About Alverno Presents
Alverno Presents, the performing arts series of Alverno College, is celebrating its 56th year. The series has innovated beyond our history as the longest running, continuous arts presenter in the city, to our niche of presenting contemporary dance, world music and jazz and an array of performance events. Alverno Presents shares the school’s mission by ensuring broad access to and participation in learning, experiencing and developing the arts for the learning community of Alverno, and our community as a whole. For more information on Alverno Presents, special projects, media reviews and more, visit alvernopresents.alverno.edu, or contact the Alverno Presents Artistic Director at 414-382-6150, or e-mail david.ravel@alverno.edu.