Bya Braga Performs in "It Takes Two to Tangle"

Bya Braga, Performance Studies Visiting Scholar, performs in "It Takes Two to Tangle" at Dixon Place on Friday, October 19th!

We've all been down that road. Relationship equals getting to know every bit, smell, attitude, smile, twitch... You name it. You want to love and be loved, right? Then, there`s no other way but entangle your being to another. The cost of it? The reward for that? This piece goes way beyond words to portray something that’s been going on throughout centuries and generations. When it starts, how it’s gonna end? Tangle with us and find out how we solve this conundrum!

Continuing the work in progress devised at The White Church Theater Project residency, Tisch-Performance Studies Research Visiting Scholar Bya Braga (Maria Beatriz Braga Mendonça) and performer Alexandre Brum Correa, will present IT TAKES TWO TO TANGLE at Dixon Place, October 19.

The first result of this research were presented in August at the home of Theatre de l'Ange Fou, a beautiful 1902 deconsacrated Methodist church transformed in a 120 full equiped theater. Theatre de l’Ange Fou was created in Paris in 1984 by Corinne Soum and Steven Wasson, the last assistants of Étienne Decroux.

The work has added to the experiences and interviews with other former Decroux assistants, Thomas Leabhart (Pomona College, CA) and Leonard Pitt (Berkeley, CA) and integrates the field activities of the creative / artistic research of ByaBraga as Visiting Scholar and her postdoctorate in Performance Studies.