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Consolidated Works presents Tim Miller's Us |
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| Consolidated Works presents Tim Miller's Us | ||
| Performance explores Gay marriage, exile and
the injustices Lesbian and Gay people face
in the United States today
Us Written and Performed by Tim Miller Consolidated Works (500 Boren Avenue North, corner of Boren and Republican) Performances: Thursday February 16 @ 8PM; Friday February 17 @ 8PM; Saturday February 18 @ 8PM Tickets: $20 in advance; $24 at door; Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 or online at www.brownpapertickets.com. Consolidated Works presents internationally acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller in his fast, funny and furious new show, Us. Us intertwines Miller's life-long love affair with Broadway musicals with explorations of Gay marriage, exile and the injustices Lesbian and Gay people face in the United States today. Miller takes us on a whirl wind journey that re-thinks the American Musical as inspiration for radical politics and Queer identity. Tim Miller is an internationally acclaimed performance artist. Miller's creative work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a Gay man. Hailed for his humor and passion, Miller's has tackled this challenge in such pieces as Live Boys(1981-created with John Bernd), Postwar(1982), Cost of Living (1983), Democracy in America (1984), Buddy Systems (1985-created with Doug Sadownick), Some Golden States (1987), Stretch Marks (1989), Sex/Love/Stories (1991), My Queer Body(1992), Naked Breath(1994), Fruit Cocktail (1996), Shirts and Skin (1997), Body Blows (2002), Glory Box (1999) and Us (2003). Miller's performances have been presented all over North America and Europe in such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Since 1990, Miller has taught performance in the theater dept at UCLA and the dance program at Cal State LA. He is a co-founder of the two most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 22 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA. Miller has received numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1990, Miller was awarded a NEA Solo Performer Fellowship, which was overturned under political pressure from the Bush White House because of the Gay themes of Miller's work. Miller and three other artists, the so-called "NEA 4", successfully sued the federal government with the help of the ACLU for violation of their First Amendment rights and won a settlement where the government paid them the amount of the defunded grants and all court costs. . Though the Supreme Court of the United States decided in 1998 to overturn part of Miller's case and determined that "standards of decency" are constitutional criterion for federal funding of the arts, Miller vows "to continue fighting for freedom of expression for fierce diverse voices." Consolidated Works presents Us, February 16-18 at Consolidated Works, 500 Boren Avenue North, corner of Boren and Republican in the South Lake Union Neighborhood of Seattle. Tickets are $20 advance, $24 at the door, and $12-16 for ConWorks members. For tickets, call Brown Paper tickets at 1-800-838-3006 or purchase online at www.brownpaperticket.com. For more information, visit www.conworks.org. Friday evenings' performance of Us will be followed by a 10PM performance by The Degenerate Art Ensemble. Saturday evenings' performance of Us will be followed by a 10PM musical performance. Artist: TBA A Consolidated Works press release |
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