Fri 2.22
8pm
EXTENDED SECOND RUN! February 22, 23, 24, March 1, 2, 3
H&H Building – 405 W Franklin Street, 5th Floor
Inspired by a true story, Peter Shaffer’s Equus delves deep into the complex relationships linking worship, myth, and sexuality.
Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has blinded six horses with a metal spike in a violent fit of passion. To the boy’s parents it is a gruesome mystery; for Dysart it opens a psychological Pandora’s box that leads both doctor and patient to a complex and disturbingly dramatic confrontation. As Alan struggles to be free of his demons, he must relive the events of that terrible night.
The Baltimore Annex Theater is proud to present their vision of Equus at the 5th Dimension. Using an intimate setting, puppet-costume hybrids, and an affinity for the absurd, director Mason Ross highlights the unknown dark comedy in Peter Shaffer’s well-known classic. This production will be a harsh and satirical commentary about humanity’s sanctimonious dissection of its own sacrosanct desires.
Be advised Equus contains strong language, adult themes, and nudity.
Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8pm
Tickets are available at www.baltimoreannextheater.org
Sat 2.23
9am
Rams Head Live presents “Cosmic Congress — The Groove is in Session” on Saturday, February 23 at 9 pm featuring All Mighty Senators and Telesma, with special guest Swampcandy. This joint show also features the Indra Lazul Bellydancers and body painter Patricia Tamariz. This is the first time All Mighty Senators and Telesma have appeared together in five years, promising an exciting night of pulsing dance music full of funk and groove.
The All Mighty Senators’ live shows, fronted by the charismatic Landis Expandis and guitar-god Warren Boes, have remained one of the most revered on the East Coast, and have established AMS with a diverse and rabid following, ranging from indie-philes to rave cadets to festival freaks. Their genre defying sounds have drawn comparisons to such disparate acts as Sly and The Family Stone, Frank Zappa and Beck.
Telesma’s live shows are known throughout the US as extravaganzas of creativity and free-spiritedness, involving artists, dancers, performance artists, who gather at their shows, bringing immense talent and enthusiasm to the musical experience. With multi-media projections, bellydancers and top-notch musicianship, Telesma delivers an ecstatic performance that brings audiences en masse to their feet.
The combination of these two exciting bands is amped up even more by special guest Swampcandy, with its powerful dirty, bump-and-grind, moaning-and-groaning blues roots music.
Doors open at 8 pm. Tickets are $12. This is an all-ages show.
Sun 2.24
12am
Preach! New Works by Jeffrey Kent is a solo exhibition held at the Frederick Douglass Isaac Myers Maritime Park. Baltimore-based artist Jeffrey Kent presents a new body of work that draws parallels
between the Civil Rights Movement and the ongoing debate over marriage equality in the United States.
“This [body of] work explores the premise that Americans, who fought to achieve justice and equality, now deny it” – Kent
The Maryland Institute College of Art’s current Exhibition Development Seminar is a yearlong course featuring a group of student curators, educators and designers working with the Frederick Douglass – Isaac Myers Maritime Park.
For more information please visit www.preachjeffreykent.com or find us on twitter or facebook.
Sun 2.24
1pm
The BMA’s Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art present the U.S. premiere of the 35mm print of Putty Hill (2010). This moving look at a working-class Baltimore community by Sondheim Prize winner Matt Porterfield will be followed by a Q&A with Porterfield and film critic Max Weiss. Watch the film trailer here: http://vimeo.com/18719741. For more information, call the BMA Box Office at 443-573-1701.
Sun 2.24
3pm
TRANSCENDENCE AND TRANSFORMATION
3 p.m. Sunday, February 24, 2013
Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles St. at Melrose Ave., Baltimore, MD 21210
TICKETS: $35 premium, $25 standard, $10 student. 410.366.6544 or
handelchoir.org
In Handel Choir of Baltimore‘s second concert in its 2012-2013 season, stirring arrangements of folk songs from the British Isles and mystical modern works by Arvo Pärt and John Tavener provide elegant context for the premiere of Donald McCullough‘s sumptuous canticle of love, “Song of the Shulamite,” a Handel Choir co-commission. Guest performers: Diba Alvi soprano, Daniel Moody countertenor, John Kilkenny marimba and vibraphone, and Marian Rian Hays harp. Conducted by Melinda O’Neal. Richard Giarusso, musicologist, conductor and singer, offers a lecture one hour before the concert.
Sun 2.24
3pm
From In-Flight Theater
Naomi’s Flight is a one woman aerial performance about aging and elder care that takes place on three asymmetrical suspended steel sculptures. Written and performed by Mara Neimanis, directed by Bryce Butler, sculptures by Tim Scofield, Naomi’s Flight reveals the love story of George, an 80 year old care giver, and his wife Naomi who has diabetes and been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Naomi’s Flight is a powerful, personal, poetic, and humorous, journey into the courageous and upside down world of day to day living with these epidemic diseases and the inverted healthcare system that is in place to do so. Neimanis combines text with aerial choreography in creating environments, characters, and time.
“The most powerful and moving piece of theater I have ever seen” - Julia Pearson, artist, owner of MacMamma
