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Jack Ferver

JACK FERVER  (1979 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Jack Ferver's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Death Is Certain         Me, Michelle         Meat         Mon Ma Mes         Movie Star Needs A Movie, A         Rumble Ghost         Swan!!!         When We Were Young And Filled With Fear

Death Is Certain

Synopsis:
Everything changes. Everything dies. We can struggle, but we will lose. Get a little more (or less) comfortable with change, death, and choreographer Jack Ferver, as he and dancers Liz Santoro and Tony Orrico, look at the manipulative, savage and desperate ways we try to resist the most certain thing
- press release

Notes:
music by John McGrew

1st Produced:
Danspace Project, 131 East 10th Street, NY    2009

Organisations:
Danspace Project City/Dans

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dance theatre

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Me, Michelle

Synopsis:
Me, Michelle is a duet between Jack Ferver and Michelle Mola, which takes on the forever-mysterious Queen Cleopatra as a vehicle for two performers to uncover the truths about iconography, monarchy, and themselves. Ferver offers a manic meta-characterization of Cleopatra during the infamous icon's final days. attended by Mola's portrayal of his/her servant, the two engage in funny, vicious, and tragic psychosexual games that vacillate between the childish to the sociopathic. Through coiling layers of performance ranging from the histrionically grand to the restlessly personal, Me, Micheleillustrates how ego fueled by total power can turn into annihilation and the sadomasochism that can exist between gay men and heterosexual women.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
abrons Arts Center, NY    09 Jan 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Meat

Synopsis:
Meat examines America's over-saturation with sex and the impossible standards it demands. Drawing from the real life tale of femme fatale Lisa Nowak (astronaut extraordinaire), a cautionary fable unfolds as told by four performers. Employing darkly comedic candor and fever pitch performance styles, Meat elevates the state of desire to an explosive end
- press release

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
HOT! Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mon Ma Mes

Synopsis:
Ferver scrutinizes his life as an artist through an impersonal and stylized question-and-answer format. He then performs excerpts of an earlier work while simultaneously deconstructing it

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Abrons Arts Center Henry Street Settlement, NY    10 Jan 2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Movie Star Needs A Movie, A

Synopsis:
a darkly satirical new work about the relationship between shallow ambition and fame. as dancers explore themes of self-exploitation and cavort for attention, spectators enable the spectacle and, through their attendance, validate the thesis. This work critically engages the tricky issue of culpability in a viewer's gaze and the inescapable self-mythologies that emerge when calling oneself an artist (i.e., the performance of identity). Ferver approaches these concerns head-on and without shame, challenging you to watch and daring you to look away.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New Museum Theatre, 235 Bowery, NY    15 Oct 2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dance Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Rumble Ghost

Synopsis:
Horror movies will never be as terrifying and shocking as the human psyche. They act as metaphorsscary stories that offer a release or escape from the more devastating twists and turns of an unquiet mind. Without ghosts to explain haunted houses, we are left with the pain sites of crumbling careers, failing marriages, abused children. In Rumble Ghost, as the flimsy membrane between an American horror movie classic and the fragility of the human condition deteriorates, the darkest place in the world is shown to be right up there: in your mind. Performed in Jack Ferver's "hyper-reality" style, seven performers reinterpret the 1982 classic horror film Poltergeist, exploring pop-psychological landscapes with movement, original music, and a highly calibrated script. The Poltergeist theme corrodes and gives way to a group therapy session, created from Ferver's personal experience with "Inner Child Work", in a therapy technique aptly called: Psychodrama. as the performers are overtaken by their own child selves, a disturbing spectacle confronts the audience and a fearless exploration of the company's own personas ensues.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
P.S. 122
150 1st avenue, New York, NY 10003    08 Dec 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Dance Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Swan!!!

Synopsis:
This is a sexy, scary, spectacular, salacious, stunning, startling werk from Jack Ferver's QWaN (Quality Without a Name) Company. Nina is freaking out. She is freaking out because she really wants to play the Swan Queen in the new production of Swan Lake. She is also freaking out because she is crazy. and so is her mother. and so is the choreographer she works under, and we mean works under. and so is the former prima ballerina Winona Ryder, we mean Beth. The pressure is a lot and she finds a little release, and we mean release, when she meets hot new bad ballet girl in town, Lily. However she gets a little more than nervous when it seems Lily may want her part. Things boil up and over and there is self-mutilation and violence towards MOM and cunnilingus and jetes.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
P.S. 122
150 1st avenue, New York, NY 10003    10 Mar 2011

Organisations:
QWaN

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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When We Were Young And Filled With Fear

Synopsis:
a new evening-length theatre/dance piece by the delirious glittering macabre spectacle that is Jack Ferver, When We Were Young and Filled With Fear is a hysterical and terrifying emotional roller-coaster rampage that blurs the lines of fantasy and reality, being a child and being in the present
- press release

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Dixon Place

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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