my saturday night did NOT go as planned :)

Created by evan ray suzuki with the performers
Choreographer – evan ray suzuki
Performers – Vann Dukes, Eleanor Lougee-Heimer, evan ray suzuki, Scout Watkins
Lighting Designer – Vittoria Orlando

A playful send up of your local indie softboi and a reflection on the effects of the social internet and digital culture for us all. Butoh and gestural dance meets Taylor Swift and our iCloud archives. Through an increasingly scrambled collage format of precise choreography and found text, we attempt to re/deconstruct what it means that the thing we wrote over Messenger ten years ago can still be accessed in about ten seconds.

Production History:
2022 — ANT Fest @ Ars Nova (NY)

In-progress:
2021 — Enduring Apocalypse: A Performance Art Marathon @ Abrons Arts Center — NY, NY
2021 — KA-BAH-RAY @ Purgatory — Brooklyn, NY

my saturday night did NOT go as planned :) was developed, in part, through an artistic residency at The Tank, a NYC home for emerging artists, and made possible, in part, by CPR – Center for Performance Research’s Subsidized Space Rental Program. Additional research and in-progress development was supported by Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter Gause & Allison Morris, and Enduring Apocalypse, a performance art marathon.

Photos by Danny Bristoll and Sammi Schachter