Open Arts professor Paul Lazar's company, Big Dance Theatre, will be presenting their latest work, 17c, with a series of performances around the East Coast, including at stops at FringeArts in Philadelphia, MaSS MOCA in Massachussets, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From release:
"17c is the newest Big Dance Theater ensemble work, built around the problematic 17th century diaries of Samuel Pepys. Pepys danced, sang, strummed, shopped, strove, bullied and groped — and he recorded all of it in his diary, completely unfiltered. From his bunions, to his infidelities, to his perversions, to his meetings with the King, he needed to get his daily life down on paper, or he felt lost. A startling precursor to our own social media culture, Pepys possessed a similar compulsion to assign an almost constant real-time meaning to his daily existence, to examine himself, and obsessively report it."
You can find more information about the performances here and view the trailer below.