BOY FRIDAY

You Always Do This to Me

SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 1, 2022
8PM

$20 in advance / $25 at-the-door

Please note: This piece contains adult themes and the use of a hazer.

A wall of paper with large child-like stick figures frames a dancer wearing a bright yellow smiley face shirt with a large lace & paper bow atop their head.

You Always Do This to Me is a dance-play that finds the Audience and the Performer caught in a tangled relationship. We watch as these not-quite-lovers replay memories of the past, unfurling their circular symbiosis through dance and conversation. Movement winds itself into gestural particulars and releases into stormy unison, and spoken text invokes a lyrical vignette of love, lust, and social disruption. Youthful imagery hides a long and turbulent history in scenes that search for logic in the collision of disparate characters who are bound to each other by forces of circumstance. Like the structure of the piece, the setting is both surreal and familiar–a cozy living room inside the house where all your dreams took place as a child. You Always Do this to Me asks the audience, “How do we keep ending up here together?”

Boy Friday is a New York-based company creating surreal performance experiences charged with social commentary. Situated at the intersection of movement, visual art, and storytelling, our work bends the myth of "normal" into a mirage of queer utopia full of futurity and potentiality. Boy Friday’s theatrical events feel distant yet familiar, inviting audiences to come close and make decisions about the kind of experience they want to have. The common and mundane are ornamented to draw attention to the strange beauty of everyday life, and identity pervades the work with subtle urgency.

boyfridaycompany.com
Instagram: @boyfridayco

4 dancers in bright colors stretch their arms in unison to the left on a neon blue rug

4 dancers dive over their right shoulder in unison, each dressed monochromatically in lavender, lime, and cherry. In the foreground, the word “cool” appears on the dancer in peach.

Photos by Effy Grey

To ensure that we are providing a safe environment for all, Trisk has the following protocols in place...

*Triskelion Arts is ADA-compliant and committed to making our theater welcoming and accessible to all. For seating questions, and accommodation, or assistance is needed for purchasing tickets, please contact us at 718.389.3473 or info@triskelionarts.org. Accessible seats are available for each performance and an accessible restroom is located on street level.