Get down on your knees, its time for....
DARB TV!
A KID'S TV SHOW ABOUT INSECTS!!!!!!!
(darb tv is a play about incest.)
birthed by rebecca nagle
raised by natalya brusilovsky, monica mirabile, and sarah tooley.
The Darb TV family will be performing their sexy subversive satire at the Annex Theatre (419 W Oliver 2W) Oct 1, 2, and 3 at 8pm for your education and $5-$10 donation please.
Saddle up those kiddos and ride 'em on over, because its time for an educational, magical, mystery-solving TV adventure! What does the note trapped in the magic bottle read? How do you break its spell? Why did Rebecca throw up? How many people in the audience have been raped? With puppets, musical bits, dreams and audience participation, our family will attack these questions and so much more in this hour of dark and disturbing comedy the kids will love. Not only will your little tikes be delighted by bug movies, healthy snacks and commercial breaks, but their brains will grow! Yes, all the fun here in Darb TV land comes with an educational, magical mission. We promise to improve your babies by showing them how to eat bruschetta, douche their vaginas, heal from childhood sexual abuse, and dig a large hole. With plenty of conversation starters for around the dinner table (and in the bedroom), Darb TV is a sexy, subversive satire the whole family needs to see.
Note: This play is not good for children.
MORE UPCOMING EVENTS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Saturday Sept 4 12:00-4pm
Memorial weekend block party and wedding at Eutaw and McMechen
Matt Matheson and Rochelle Lauzon are getting married at a block party celebration to bring together communities. Celebrate their union along with the union of neighborhoods in Central West Baltimore. Complete with free food, moon bounce, music, dancing and matrimony!
Sept 18 12:00 - 2pm
No Boundaries Coalition's neighborhood tour in Upton (meet at Presstman and Pennslyvania Ave)
The No Boundaries Coalition is a group of neighborhood leaders from Sandtown, Druid Heights, Bolton Hill, Upton and Madison Park working together to deconstruct boundaries and reconstruct community. Join us Sept 18 for a guided walking tour of the community's civil rights and musical entertainment history, focusing on Pennsylvania Avenue. Followed by refreshments and discussion at 1:30.
Oct 1- Nov 12, opening reception Oct. 1 at 7pm
FORCE: on the culture of rape at the Annex Gallery
To prevent rape, our discussion cannot be one dimensional. We need a conversation that goes beyond “Rape is wrong”. We need to ask more difficult questions of what in our society and in ourselves produces sex as violence. FORCE: on the Culture of Rape is a collection of art, performance, discussion, and critique about unwanted sexual experience. FORCE seeks to promote a critical discussion about how our attitudes towards gender, sex, power and violence are played out on people's bodies. Curated by Rebecca Nagle and Hannah Brancato.
Oct 1, 2, and 3 at 8pm
DARB TV at the Annex Theatre
Come see the my new original play Darb TV. Darb TV is a children's television show about insects. Darb TV is a subversive satire about incest. Grounded in feminist critique and delivered with magical puppets, Darb TV highlights the insidious nature of how sexual violence functions in our society and in our families.
Oct 15 and 16 at 8pm
Charm City Kitty Club at the Creative Alliance
The Charm City Kitty Club presents its thrice yearly queer cabaret: HOMO ROGUE: do ask, do tell. With pole dancing duo Gravity Play Favorites, experimental films All that Sheltering Emptiness and Jay Dreams, Baltimore's Experimental Dance collective, and drag gyrations by the amazing Del Torro!
Oct 23
Theatre Bizarre in Detroit
Oct 20-24
International Drag King Extravaganza
PAST EVENTS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
July 2
Boite at Minas with Selena
June 26
Bmore Erotic Performance Series at Hamilton Arts Collective in Baltimore
June 4
A Dozen Things at Spore Infoshop in Columbus
June 5
A Dozen Things at Beachland in Cleveland
June 16
A Dozen Things at This Little Bird Theatre in Charlottesville
June 17
A Dozen Things at Projexx Studio in Johnson City
June 18
A Dozen Things at Firestorm Cafe in Asheville
May 22 1-4pm
Third Annual Boundary Block Party in the 1400 block of Eutaw Place
May 24 - June 4
C.R.E.A.T.E. at Baltimore City Hall
Child First Art Core presents students' art work in city hall to raise awareness about the importance of art education in our city schools! My students wrote heart warming and wrenching postcards to the mayor and Obama. Also, come see a puppet at the opening reception May 24 4:30 - 7pm show by the kids I teach at Curtis Bay Elementary Middle School.
April 10 at 12noon
Mural Dedication and Memorial Ceremony at Fulton and Lorman in Sandtown
For the past year community members have been working on creating a mural of Mr Charlile, a community leader in Sandtown, at Fulton and Lorman Streets. This past January Mr Charlie passed away. We are gathering to dedicate the mural and honor all that Mr Charlie did for his community. The mural was made possible by the Resident Action Committee, the Boundary Block Party, Baltimore Clayworks, Jubilee Arts, Sandtown Habitat and the Baltimore Community Foundation. The tiles on the mural were made by residents at the 2009 Boundary Block Party, an annual event to bring together Sandtown, Upton, Madison Park and Bolton Hill to strengthen and unify this area of Baltimore. The mural was designed by Emma Munger. Thank you to the Freemans for letting us use the side of their house. Special thanks to all the residents who helped plan the mural, make tiles, prime the wall, hold ladders, paint the picture, install tiles, and complete this project, including Mr Charlie.
April 18 12-3pm
Pedestrian Services Exquisite at Fells Point and Locust Point
I help curate Transmodern's free Pedestrian Services Exquisite with Laure Drogoul and Jenny Graf. This year we have migrated south to take over Baltimore's inner harbor with floating and walking interactive art by over 40 artists. There will be viking funerals, oral puppet shows, tropical islands, trash islands, trash monsters, nipple hair, a pirate sea turtle, harbor water filtration, and maybe harbor water drinking! Artists include Copy Cat Theatre, Ambush Theatre, Gary Kachadorian, Melissa Moore, Spoon, Valeska Populoh, Virginia Warwick and more. So much more! Complete with Fluid Movement's annual love parade, this year's PSE is not to be missed! We will be on Hull Street in Locust Point and in Fells Point at Broadway and Thames.
April 17
Garden day at Gardens of Hope
The Boundary Block Party project's mural is being installed at Gardens of Hope in partnership with the Upton Planning Council. The mural was completed by community residents and includes tiles made by attendees at the 2008 Boundary Block Party. Come celebrate the new mural and help clean up the garden for spring!
May 30 and April 1 at 8pm
Charm City Kitty Club at the Creative Alliance
Come see my awesome queer collective do its thing! May's show features Bitch (!!!!!), Geo Wyeth from Novice Theory, Karl Jones, E-Cleff, a film by Sarah Adams and Pariah Piranah.
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Tour was amazing! Thank you to all the people that set up shows, performed in shows, and came to shows. It is inspiring that cities across the nation are hungry for critical performance art!
Press from tour:
Interview in the Twin Cities Daily Planet
Interview in Urbana's The Buzz
Interview in Urbana's Smile Politely
Photos in Village Voice photo blog
Blurb and slide show in Kansas City's examiner
Blurb in Philly's City Paper
Jan 12 at 8pm
Northampton at Dynamite Space sponsored by C3
with poetry by Shira E.
Jan 13 at 8pm
Boston
with drag, contortion, burlesque, grrlesque and gorlesque by Miss Madison West, Intro to Anatomy, Heywood Wakefield, and Madge of Honor and Johnny Blazes.
Jan 14 at 10pm
Providence at AS220
with music by the Unirows and the Kris Hans Collective
Jan 15 at 8pm
Philadelphia at Studio 34
presented by Puppet Uprising
Jan 16 at 8pm
New York (Brooklyn) at Silent Barn
with performances by Lucas Crane, Ric Royer, Adrienne Aninome and Zhenesse.
Jan 17 at 3pm
Pittsburgh at Artspace
with music by Sam Paces and puppetry by Flora Sheperd
presented by Steel Valley Arts Council
Jan 18 at 8pm
Milwuakee at Cream Cities Collective
with music by Eat the Mystery
Jan 19 at 8pm
Detroit at the Abreact Performance Space
with dance by Tzarinas of the Plane
Jan 20 at 8pm
Chicago at the Automatic Collective
Jan 21 at 8pm
Champaign Urbana at the Independent Media Center
Jan 22 at 10:30pm
Minneapolis at Bedlam Theater
with ACROYOGA and RIOT PORN and followed by DJ DR. SLEEP
Jan 23 at 8pm
St Louis at Nancy's Place
with burlesque by Great Garter and acrobatic pole dancing by Gravity Plays Favorites
Jan 24 at 8pm
Kansas City at Fishtank Performance Studio
with burlesque and comedy Lucky Deluxe
Jan 25 at 8pm
Omaha at Half a Castle
Jan 26 at 8pm
Columbus at Sporeprint Infoshop
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March 5 at 7pm
Umami Food and Art Festival at Eyebeam in New York and LIVE WEBCAST everywhere
Anarchy in the Kitchen,” a Webcast/gastro-performance event featuring work by DC and Baltimore artists, will stream live over the Internet as part of the NYC-based Umami Food and Arts Festival. My performance "virtual break", where I broke a three day fast by mimetically eating people's text messages, will be shown.
March 16 at 8pm
RPM Puppet Conspiracy at Black Cherry Puppet Theatre
Touring RPM Puppet Conspiracy joined by yours truly and Laure Drogoul for a specail evening of stimulating performance. $5-10 sliding scale.
March 22 at 7pm
Dr Sketchy's at the Wind Up Space
I am cooking up some fabulous costumes and contortions to inspire your creative minds and bring forth your artistic talents. Dr. Sketchy’s is a chain of cabaret life-drawing sessions, a little bit burlesque, a little bit art studio, and a little bit hair of the dog. Maybe the whole dog.
March 19-21
Rooms Play at the Copy Cat Theatre in Baltimore
An epic, collabortive, sectional play that will lead you through the trials, terrors and thrills of an interactive digestive system! Come see my performance in the small intestine!
March 2 at 8pm
Irene Moon and Parts & Labor Closing at Annex Theatre in Baltimore
Irene Moon & Kevin Blechdom, Leprechaun Catering, Ric Royer & Lexie Mnt. (together at last as Martin & Lawrence), Jesse Heffler, a play by Savannah Reich and make up performances from the Parts and Labor opening. I will be doing my rarely seen burlesque-drag-contortion routine Pink Cadillac! $5-10 sliding scale.
Feb 19 at 9pm
14 Karat Cabaret
I will be unveiling my new gender bending, trapeze, contortion, violent death duo routine featuring Jonathan Rochkind on accordian!
Feb 18 at 10:30pm
Charm City Boys present Sloppy Seconds at Grand Central
Get over the Valentine's Days blues with drag, boylesque, grrrlesque and... me!
Feb 13
Velociprom at Wind Up Space
This is a fundraiser to benefit Baltimore's awesome community bike coop Velocipede. I will be doing contortion and trapeze. Plus the awesome DJ stylings of Jason Willet! Seriously, this place is the reason my bike got me all the way to Texas!
Feb 12 at 8pm
Bad Romance Cabaret at Annex 3E
Louge lizards, adorable puppets, baked goods, nasty slow jams, strip teezers, awkward silences and Al Green. And vomit. I am unveiling a new burlesque routine that explore theories of sexuality, the uncanny and abject through bodily fluids!
Jan 26- Feb 22
Love and Loss (I miss you Hugh Grant) at Hood College
Body Connections sculptures in a gallery show curated by Milana Braslavsky. Read more about it on There Were Ten Tigers.
Dec 17
Charm City Boys Holiday Show at Grand Central
Dec 12
Circus Night at Club Charles
Dec 11
Poetry Project at St Marks Church (New York)
Dec 4 and 5 at 8pm
Puppet Uprising Year End Cabaret and the Rotunda (Philly)
Oct 22 and 23 at 9pm
You Tube Play Festival at the Annex
Sep 5 at 8pm
Boite at Minas
Aug 29 at 8pm
A Dozen Things I want to do on stage and Scenes Play at the Barn in Brooklyn
Aug 22 at 8pm
The Femme Show at the Lof/t
Aug 8 at 8pm
A Dozen Things I want to do on stage and Scenes Play at PIFAS in Philadelphia!
July 24 & 25 at 8pm
A Dozen Things I want to do onstage at the Annex
$6-12
July 2-18
Reception Fri Jul 10 6-8pm
Me We at the Creative Alliance
Inspired by Emory Douglas, Shepard Fairey, and Abdoulaye Konaté, curator Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed assembles a group of contemporary artists creating graphic art and design infused with the politics of today. The work challenges each viewer not only to keep the peace, but to be proactive agents knowing we all belong to a greater whole.
July 17-19
Midway at Arscape
I am curating the carnival side show on the Charles Street bridge. Come get free therapy, make videos with your head in little puppet bodies, see outsider art sculpture, go to a rave, view Lewis Island from the observation deck and play human foosball! Artists include Jane Vincent, Josh Jowarsky, April Lewis, Dan Van Allen, Niki Smith, Salena, Michael Benevento, Andrew Liang, Fred Merrill, Milana Braslavsky, Andy Cook, Joe Delano, Mickey Freeland, Moira Horowitz, Aran Keating, Melody Often, Sara Seidman, Emily Slaughter, Christiana Usenza & Bonnie Veronda!
Aug 31 - forever
Boundary Block Party mural project
At Henry H Garnett Park, Burce Street Park and Gardens of Hope.
The block party is an annual event to connect and celebrate the communities of Upton, Sandtown, Madison Park and Bolton Hill. Often there is a lack of dialogue and cultural exchange between Baltimore's distinct neighborhoods. The block party brings together neighborhoods that are geographically very close, but may be culturally distant, to share and build relationships. Our goal is to create a more unified and empowered Central West Baltimore. At the block party community members made tiles in response to the question "What do you want for your community?". The tiles will be part of new community murals in Bruce Street Park, Gardens of Hope and Henry H Garnett Park. The murals are being worked on by community volunteers this summer and will be finished by then end of August. We need volunteers to come out and help us paint the murals. If interested contact Rebecca at rebecca.nagle[at]gmail.com.
Sept 4 at 8pm
Boite at Minas
by donation
June 12 at 9pm
A Dozen Things I want to do on stage at LOF/t
A Dozen Things I want to do on stage is a new one-woman cabaret by Rebecca Nagle. At the Load of Fun Theatre, the dozen things will be performed on the dozenth day of the sixth month in the ninth year of this millennium on occasion of the artist’s birthday. Of the dozen, Nagle will undress to "Wenn Ich Mir Was Wünschen Dürfte", fit in a small box, tell your secrets, discuss why something is racist, fall in love, read her fantasies, act out your fantasies, induce a tragedy, fall down, take truth serum while letting the audience ask her questions, tell a tall tale, and disembowel herself.
Using the format of 1920’s political European cabaret, A Dozen Things combines contortion, burlesque, poetry, games, lecture, ritual, confession, audience participation, science experiments, real-life moments and staged performance to deliver hard truths, half-truths and straight up lies. The cabaret plays with the familiar themes and tropes of the human condition, namely: sexuality, violence, fantasy, love, tragedy, ecstasy, history, and death. Nagle pits reality and action against fantasy and performance for an all out social deconstructionist battle. Yet somewhere, during the skirmish, difference is eliminated, as she blurs the opposing forces.
May 29-30 Door 7, show at 8
Charm City Kitty Club presents Diagnosis: Dyke from U-Haul to Adderall
at the Creative Alliance
I will be performing along with Ariel Schrag (graphic novelist), Jana Hunter (Dark pop songwriter), Mzery Loves Company (Baltimore Hip-Rock), Eliza Blaze (fiery aeriel burlesque), and Rahne Alexander (experimental film)!
May 2, 2009 1-4pm
Second Annual Boundary Block Party at Eutaw and McMechen Streets
The second annual Boundary Block Party is on May 2 from 1 to 4pm at Eutaw and McMechen Streets. The block party is an annual event to connect and celebrate the communities of Upton, Sandtown, Madison Park and Bolton Hill. At the block party there will be live entertainment with Strange Powers (hula hooping), Dance Crew, the Arena Players, Strand Theatre, music from Empowerment Temple, Furman Templeton Elementary School youth choir, Playground Etiquette (indy rock), and the Wendell Shepard Experience (jazz ensemble). Families will participate in art activities, face painting, hula hooping workshops, break dancing workshops, and will decorate flower pots. There will be free food, games, prizes, and a cookie taste contest. Community organizations will share information about resources in our area. People learn more about the neighborhoods through an interactive map and short walking tours. Attendees will also participate in a public art project by decorating ceramic tiles to be part of new murals in the neighborhoods. For more information go to www.boundaryblockparty.com.
Often there is a lack of dialogue and cultural exchange between Baltimore's distinct neighborhoods. The block party brings together neighborhoods that are geographically very close, but may be culturally distant, to share and build relationships. We are a community lead, planned and organized event. Our goal is to create a more unified and empowered Central West Baltimore.
May 1 8pm
Boite at Minas
I will be performing a sampling from my new cabaret project "A Dozen Things I want to do on stage". I will fall in love, speak in tongues, talk about why something is racist that most people don't see as racist, and take truth serum and let the audience ask me questions. The performance combines games, poetry, song, lecture, audience participation, real-life moments, and religious experiences to deliver hard truths, humorous antics, and radical queries. Join the brave and the curious for an immersive and uniquely transformative experience!
Also featuring graveyard country rock by Red Sammy!
April 2-5, 2009
6th Annual Transmodern Arts Festival at H&H Building and surroundings
Four Days of Avant Performance, Installation, Sound, Film, Mayhem, Ecstasy, and Radical Culture!
Come see the collabortive curatorial creation of Laure Drogoul and myself on Sunday afternoon Pedestrian Service Exquisite will provide a series of Extra-quisite tours of projects exploring the area surrounding the H&H building in Baltimore, MD at the corner of Franklin and Eutaw Streets.
March 6, 2009 7pm
Minas Gallery and Boutique
815 W 36th St
By donation
Contortionist, radical and creator extraordinaire Rebecca Nagle kicks off a new First Friday performance series at Minas Gallery. Performing numbers from her new one-woman cabaret "A Dozen Things I want to do on stage", Nagle will fall in love, induce a tragedy, talk about something that she thinks is racist, undress to "Wenn Ich Mir Was Wünschen Dürfte", read her fantasies, tell the audience's secrets, fit into a really small box, disembowel herself, fall down, speak in tongues, tell a tall tale, and take truth serum while letting the audience ask her questions. Join the brave and the curious March 6 at 7pm at Minas Gallery in Hampden to watch Rebecca Nagle fit her entire body into a really small box and then share your secrets.
March 5, 2009 3:00-4:30
Social Art, Collaborative Engagement and Activism: A Panel Discussion at UMBC's Artweek
The Commons Skylight Room at UMBC
Thought you knew about art? Think again! This engaging panel discussion and presentation will cover topics of social art and more! Participating panelists: Jaimes Mayhew, Rebecca Nagle, Lee Boot, Marian April Glebes, and Steve Bradley.
March 28th, 2009
PACO's fishbowl at the LOF/T (the Load of Fun Theater)
$10
Come see me perform a seductive and dangerous contortion routine to "Wenn Ich Mir Was Wünschen Dürfte" complete with weapons, lymrics, and (you guessed it) my entire body in a little box! + PACO + Laura Ernst + Mia + Ariel + Beatbox Guitar
Feb 21
Transmodern Arts Festival Fundraiser at 5th Floor H&H Building
Bands, crazy burlesque, stripper poles and a flea circus.
Jan 23 and 24
The Charm City Kitty Club at the Creative Alliance
The Charm City Kitty Club presents Frisky Business
Featuring performances by Andrea Gibson, Gina Young, Lurch & Holler, Angie Head, Hooping Powers and films by kt shorb and Kristen Anchor
Nov. 14 - Dec 12
fifteen minutes in AGENDA
at Current Gallery
AGENDA (November 14-December 12, 2008 at Current Gallery, Baltimore USA) is interested in how queer subjectivity informs, and is mediated by, evolving technology, the media, and our present state of collective (un)consciousness; the use, abuse, and critique of popular media; and the creation of autonomous spaces for play, discourse, and protest.
Nov. 6-9
Interactive art project: "Letters to Obama" at Bioneers Conference
The Bioneers Conference is a forum that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and healing human communities. I am part of a group of artist doing performances and installations at the conference.
Oct. 18-19
Open Studio Tours
Come visit me in my studio at Current Gallery on Saturday Oct. 18 from 12-5. You can also vies the recently completed piece "Body Pressure" at the Open Studio gallery show at School 33.
Sept. 12 - NOW
Boundary Benches are installed!!!
"Boundary Benches" were created as a community art project at the Boundary Block Party in April 2008. The Boundary Block Party is an anual event to bring the Upton, Sandtown, Madison Park and Bolton Hill neighborhoods together to celebrate and share their unique cultures. The bench planks made at the block party are a visual representation of that dialogue. People designed cards in response to the question, “What do you want for your community?”. The decorated cards were arranged on planks of wood to make new art benches. Boundary benches are in the Contee-Parago Park at Bolton and Dolphin Streets, Bruce Street Park around Fulton and Laurens Streets and Henry H Garnett Park at Druid Hill and Lafayette.
Aug 30 8pm
Femme Show at Strand Theatre
Rebecca will be performing Pink Cadillac as part of the Femme Show's (a touring show exploring queer femme identity) Baltimore stop!