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Feminine Folklore presents What’s Your Superpower? at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 29-30

Feminine Folklore presents What’s Your Superpower? at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 29-30

Feminine Folklore presents
What’s Your Superpower?

Friday, January 29, 2016 at 8:00pm
Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 8:00pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Parental advisory: May not be appropriate for children under 13.

Feminine Folklore arrives at Joe’s Movement Emporium for the premiere of their new show, “What’s Your Superpower?” Joe’s Executive Director Brooke Kidd is, “thrilled to host this unique collection of voices at Joe’s.” Feminine Folklore founder Goldie Patrick is a Mount Rainier, MD resident and recently performed at Joe’s Movement Emporium with Taurus Broadhurst Dance. Tickets are $20 per adult.

“Dedicated to community, this piece is more than just a performance,” explains Goldie Patrick, recent founder of FRESHH, Inc. Theatre Company. “This interactive experience allows audience members to participate in dialogue with the actors, attend open rehearsals, and through social media, audience members can also help write the script.”

Audiences have met previous Feminine Folklore performances with positive acclaim, “I have never seen a show so honest, and raw, and hilarious and empowering for women, it was just what I needed.” While the show is female-centered, even men have had powerful experiences: “As a man, it was so great to feel included in the story and be able to laugh at myself at times and think about things I would have never thought about. It’s definitely a show by women, but not only for women.”

About “What’s Your Super Power”: Through poetry, music, and theater, this performance gathers some of the community’s strongest female artists to explore exactly what makes a woman so super. The performance run about an hour and may not be appropriate for children 13 and under. Refreshments will be available for purchase in the lobby.

Feminine Folklore was created to give voice to the experiences of a culturally diverse group of women. Aimed at capturing a variety of perspectives, experiences, and ideas, while breathing life to some of the universal themes of womanhood. Together our goal is to create a space where the narrative of the experiences as women growing and evolving, is captured by our own voices. We are diverse; in several ways. From class, to sexuality, to ethnicity, to political affiliation, to spiritual beliefs, there are several ways to “redefine” the ways we are different from each other. Find Feminine Folklore online at http://www.femininefolklore.com.

Tickets: $20.

Clown Cabaret’s The Heist at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 5

Clown Cabaret’s The Heist at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 5

Clown Cabaret’s The Heist

Friday, January 22, 2016 at 7:00pm – cancelled
Rescheduled for Friday, February 5, 2016 at 7:00pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Clown is an evolving art form which celebrates a universal sense of fun. Through performance, workshops, and audience interaction, Clown Cabaret keeps the tradition alive with laughter. During the company’s NextLOOK residency, they will continue developing their newest work. In The Heist, a trio of menacing gangsters conspires to execute the Greatest Robbery of the 21st Century: a piggy bank. A film noir motif carries the story without dialogue, making the show accessible to audiences regardless of language or age. The Heist is a robust physical comedy, with nods to both high and low art ranging from French Surrealism to Bugs Bunny.

Free, or pay what you want.

Life After Death at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 16

Life After Death at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 16

Life After Death: Stories of those who Survived Grief
Cola McGill Productions

Saturday, January 16, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

These mini sketches all explore the many different stages of grief through both comedy and dramatic lenses. Each sketch explores the expectations of what people go through when they are trying to move past death. Death doesn’t always mean that someone has died. We discuss the ending of relationships and the loss of jobs, as other forms of grief. There are 10 stories that are expressed through monologues, choreopoems, scenes. Each of the sketches deals with an aspect of different stages of grief: 1. Denial/ isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance, touching on matters such as using time wisely, questioning why has this happened, good memories of the person, being bitter, angry, or simply how to help others who have experienced loss. The recurring theme throughout the piece is that grief can be a tool of empowerment, and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.

The goal for this production is to entertain, educate on how to identify the different stages of grief to help others, and to ignite conversations about grief that we as a society are not having.

If you enjoyed the Vagina Monologues, the Color Museum or SNL, then you will love Life After Death! You will laugh, you will cry! Most important you will be empowered!

Tickets: $25. Get tickets here.

The Ghost of Strasburg at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Nov 20-21

The Ghost of Strasburg at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Nov 20-21

The Ghost of Strasburg
By Carol Lee Campbell

Friday, November 20, 2015 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 3:00pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Circa 1929 in Central Virginia, where the ladies of the Strasburg Hotel offer more than a good night’s rest — They provide sanctuary to lost souls. But when the wife of a policeman seeks refuge from her husband, the hotel proves anything but idyllic. From critically-acclaimed playwright Carol Lee Campbell (The Goddess Diaries) comes a new story that blends history with a touch of magic in a genre-defying drama about our dalliances with eternity.

Tickets: $15.

Margot Greenlee’s Medicine by the Book at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Nov 4

Margot Greenlee’s Medicine by the Book at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Nov 4

Margot Greenlee’s Medicine by the Book

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 7:00pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

With beauty and humor, Margot Greenlee’s Medicine by the Book explores the relationship between movement, imagination and the body’s inherent capacity to heal. Inspired by her experiences as a resident choreographer in healthcare settings across the greater DC region, the work combines the excitement of performance with the satisfaction of meaningful discussion and creative involvement. Weaving together compelling scenes from literature and graphic novels with the daily frustrations and long-range aspirations of healthcare professionals, Medicine by the Book reveals the power of our creative minds to heal our ailing bodies. Designed as a focal point for discourse and creativity, Medicine combines theater, storytelling and movement followed by a facilitated audience-and-cast ‘lab’ session to immediately propel the work further. This preview performance will feature faculty members from University of Maryland’s School of Public Health.

Free, or pay what you want.