@ALT VENUE* In A Minute & The Importance of Being Haunted

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In A Minute & The Importance of Being Haunted 2 shows in 1 hour! In A Minute After dancing for 16 years, Tess Saoirse Liddy had to take 2 years away from dance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Upon acceptance to the aMaSSiT program in Cambridge, Tess was in a space of struggling to self-regulate emotions and mental health. She created this piece to explore her own mind. Losing the structure of traditional schooling, coupled with the pandemic, and her first year as a public school teacher, Tess found that she was questioning the way her mind was processing information and impeding her functioning in daily life. This piece explores the challenge of dealing with daily life tasks, while struggling to understand the way your brain is working. Since it’s first iteration, Tess has been diagnosed with ADHD and is finally making sense of the way her brain works. In this version of the piece, Tess seeks to explore the next phase of understanding your brain: once you know and acknowledge the problems and/or limitations, how do you move forward to accept and embrace yourself? In A Minute features Eliza Owen-Smith, Abigail Dube, Audrey Abraham, Heidi Ho, Joselyn Gil, Sanaya Mistry, Shawna Upton, Katie Logan, Shirin Kuppusamy, Kelsey Clausing, and Aarti Lamberg. Company Instagram: @tesssaoirsedancecompany // Choreographer Instagram: @tess.saoirse Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Tess-Saoirse-Dance-Company-61552535162272/ Website: https://www.tesssaoirsedancecompany.com/ The Importance of Being Haunted When a wannabe spiritualist stages a midnight ghost show straight out of vaudeville’s heyday—complete with ectoplasm, floating tables, and campy spectacle—to contact her deceased actress grandmother, they wrestles with the hardest trick of all: communing with something they don’t think exists. Can you stay close to a ghost when you don’t believe in ghosts? Tap once for yes. By Gwen Colburn Show Times: Tue May 12 @ 6:00 PM – ARTS AT THE ARMORY — UPPER MEZZANINE (Used to be Dragon Pizza) Fri May 15 @ 8:40 PM – DENTE’S BARBER SHOP **CHECK THE LOCATION – EACH SHOW IS DIFFERENT! DRAGON PIZZA will be at “DRAGON’S LAIR” to the left of Dragon Pizza 233 Elm St, Somerville, MA 02144 DENTE’S BARBER SHOP 417 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA 02144 ARTS AT THE ARMORY — UPPER MEZZANINE 191 Highland Ave #1c, Somerville, MA 02143 Seeing more than one show, think about the Festival Pass! For $75 you can see all the shows! This event is All Ages, suggested Age is 16+ // Valid ID required for alcohol consumption No refunds.

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