ChrisMastersDance Presents Mausoleum

ChrisMastersDance PRESENTS MAUSOLEUM

FOR THREE PERFORMANCES, JUNE 2-4,

AT BAM FISHMAN SPACE

New York, New York - After nearly a decade-long hiatus from live performance, ChrisMastersDance (CMD) presents Mausoleum at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Fishman Space, June 2-4, 2023. A dance work that considers and interrupts what has come, Mausoleum investigates our overconsumption of media, addiction to drama, inertia that concretizes unsustainable forms of life and work, and the inextricable link between love and loss.

Mausoleum is directed and conceived by Chris Masters, and choreographed and performed by cove barton, Sabrina Canas, Abigail Linnemeyer, and Marcus Sarjeant. Overstimulating and non-stop, the work is set to original music composed by Ex-Fiancée and features costumes designed by Oana Botez (2007 Princess Grace Award-winner), with lighting design by Maruti Evans (2013 Drama Desk Award-winner). Additional collaboration includes dramatury by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, photography by Robert Flynt, and writing by Jayson P. Smith. 

Mausoleum continues CMD's commitment to creating work using generative processes that construct multiple points of entry for diverse audiences to find their own avenue to engage with the work through its cerebral underpinning, hyper-physical movement, or live simulcast projections that redirect gaze, allowing the audience to witness private backstage moments. 

Performances of Mausoleum are Friday, June 2 and Saturday, June 3 at 7:30PM, and Sunday, June 4 at 2:00PM. To purchase tickets to Mausoleum for $35, visit www.bam.org/Mausoleum. If financial hardship precludes your attendance, please reach out directly via the website below. 

To find out more about CMD's commitment to reshaping labor equity in dance, please visit www.chrismastersdance.org/mausoleum or text CMD to 44321. 

About ChrisMastersDance

ChrisMastersDance is a Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company built by a team of interdisciplinary collaborators and directed by Chris Masters. Founded in 2012, the organization's philosophy is that the work shoild function as a container, seamlessly blending movement invention, theoretical investigation, and character-driven theatricality. Highlights include performances at Danspace Project, a sold-out run at La MaMa Moves!, years of professional-level classes at Mark Morris Dance Center (among other professional schools), the construction of an evening-length immersive dance theatre work in Beijing, China, a soon-to-be-released dance film--A Feast That Never Comes--which has received over 650 awards and selections in the most competive year in film history.