FEBRUARY 5 - MARCH 1, 2025
Students + Seniors: use code STUSEN0225 for $5 off!
Created and performed by Ian Andrew Askew
Produced in association with ¡Oye! Group
SLAMDANCE garage is a solo performance on punk and blackness. Nestled somewhere between performance art, a rock show, and an one-act opera, Ian Andrew Askew hurdles through an hour of music, movement, and text celebrating the absurdity of explaining Black people’s participation in their own culture.
SLAMDANCE garage borrows text from Nina Simone, Audre Lorde, Drexciya, and other luminaries, reharmonizing their words to the sounds of drums, distorted vocals, and the blaring resonance of a custom-one string bass. Inspired by the Malawian babatoni, Mississippi diddley-bow, and the Afro-Brazilian berimbau, the handmade instrument (nearly the same length as its player) is an homage to throughlines of musical technology that weave through the African diaspora.
April 27 - May 18, 2025
at The Bushwick Starr
Sunday, April 27: Escape from the City by Diane Exavier
Monday, April 28: floriography: a plant dance ritual by Mahayla Laurence
Sunday, May 4: Target Practice by Kara Hadden
Monday, May 5: MOTHER OF JUNK by Masha Breeze
Monday, May 12: I'm Not Even Half by Layla Khoshnoudi
Sunday, May 18: Hollow House by DN Bashir
Free Admission | Tickets Available At The Door
