Ghostrave
composed and DJ’ed by Brandon M. P. Roberts
Written and directed by Jerome Joseph Gentes
Coyote is at it again! When the Trickster stumbles across the 1890 Ghost Dance in western Nevada, he accidentally summons Chayson, an indigiqueer bike messenger, from 1990 San Francisco. Trying to get back home, Chayson launches on a journey across time, space, music, dance, despair, hope, and love.
GhostRave unfolds – for Chayson, Coyote, an assortment of Native and indigenous beings and spirits, and most of all the audience – as an immersive adventure from composer Brandon M.P. Roberts and librettist Jerome Joseph Gentes that breaks the rules of dancefloors, spacetime, indigeneity, genderqueerness, opera and theatre. Featuring groundbreaking approaches to musical composition, using DJ formulas and techniques such as harmonic mixing and beat matching to fuse music genres and rhythms.
A limited number of tickets will be available for each performance – patrons are invited to sit, stand, drink, and yes, dance! It’s a fresh, original theatre experience coming alive for the first time in this workshop production from TigerBear, the creative production team that brought the immersive kink chamber opera Unbound to Palm Springs and the award-winning Deal With The Dragon to the Magic Theatre.
Electronic music, haze effects, flashing lights, light scent design. Hey, it’s a danceclub!