KLUTZ

Led by choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Alex Romania, KLUTZ is an exploration of destabilizing nonsense on the sick state of the American psyche. This multidisciplinary performance work utilizes text, video, music, and dance to form absurd and poetic thought memes; wanderlust-nowhere, apocalypse-nostalgia, sublime horrors of the spectacularly mundane, and ______________________, emerge as dregs of this ‘Orwellian slop sink’. Almostly a backyard-sci-fi-space-epic, this genre bursting C-performance joins the pileup of hot consumer trash in the looming obsession with The End.

The KLUTZ world premiere was commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and took place in the historic Playhouse Theater May 9-12 2018.

/// WORLD PREMIERE CREDITS ///

Created and Choreographed by Alex Romania in Collaboration with Andrew Braddock, Maira Duarte, Alvaro Gonzalez, Millie Kapp, Raquel Mavecq, Butch Merigoni, Marc Mosteirin, Arthur Romania, Emily Smith, and Ava Vex

Performed by Andrew Braddock, Maira Duarte, Alvaro Gonzalez Millie Kapp, Raquel, Mavecq, Marc Mosteirin, Alex Romania, Arthur Romania, Emily Smith, and Ben Wohlfarth

Text by Alex Romania in collaboration with the performers, with select text by Zach Romania

Sounds by Marc Mosteirin, Alex Romania, and Ava Vex

Videos by Alex Romania and Taylor Sakarett

Costumes, Silicone Masks and Objects by Alex Romania

Set - Alex Romania with drawings by Zach Romania

Lighting Design - Roderick Murray

Assistant Lighting Designer - Lucas Ingram

Performance Assistance - Anya Kopischke

With on screen performance contributions by Frank Conversano, and developmental performance/research contributions by Kaia Gilje and Butch Merigoni

\\\ HISTORY OF THE WORK AND FULL CREDITS \\\

'KLUTZ' has been shown in excerpts, developments, or as smaller performances of their own right at

*the fall 2015 Performancy Forum at Grace Exhibition Space - 10/22/15 - Titled ‘Throat Piece’ at the time and performed by Millie Kapp, Raquel Mavecq, and Butch Merigoni, Alex Romania

*the 2016 New Voices in Live Performance festival at the Center for Performance Research - 5/13/16 - performed by Millie Kapp, Raquel Mavecq, and Butch Merigoni, Alex Romania

*the 2016 Movement Research Fall Festival - 12/2/2016 - Performed by Performed by Maira Duarte, Kaia Gilje, Alvaro Gonzalez, Raquel Mavecq, Butch Merigoni, Emily Smith, Alex Romania. Video by Alex Romania and video assistance by Taylor Sakarett. Music composition by Marc Mosteirin, Alex Romania and Ava Vex.

*Movement Research at the Judson Church - 5/15/17 - Performed by Millie Kapp, Raquel Mavecq, and Butch Merigoni, Alex Romania. Video by Alex Romania featuring on screen performances by Arthur Romania.

KLUTZ has received residency support from the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) through a summer 2016 Space Grant, Old Furnace Artist Residency, and commissioning support by Abrons Arts Center and the Jerome Foundation for it's world premiere in May 2018.

Excerpt of KLUTZ performed at Movement Research at the Judson Church. 5/15/17 - On Screen - Butch Merigoni. Off Screen - Millie Kapp, Raquel Mavecq, and Alex Romania. Video documentation by Tatyana Tenenbaum.