This Wednesday night, on April 17, 2024, Death of Classical took its sold-out audience on a journey backwards through time, starting in Weimar Germany and going all the way back to biblical times with a series of song, dance, and shadow puppets. Andrew Ousley curates a number of delightfully strange events for DOC, and this night was no exception.
Andrew Ousley is a director, producer, and founder of Death of Classical, a unique performance group offering intimate experiences centered mostly around instrumental music with a modern twist.They will be mounting a special show there from April 17th to 19th as part of Carnegie Hall’s Weimar Festival.
(pray), nicHi douglas’s religious choreopoem, also empowers those who may be forgotten and subverts norms while plunging the well of faith. In (pray)’s many vibrant hymns, common reverent words get a matrilineal makeover—“amen” turns into “again,” and “father” becomes “freedom”—bringing focus less to Jesus and more to the community church enables.
The joyful and life-affirming energy of director and adapter Justin Emeka’s take on the classic comedy rolls off the O’Reilly Theater stage in waves, washing away even the stodgiest preconceptions of what Shakespeare is “supposed” to be.