city point residency february 2021
Since 2017 Only Child Aerial Theatre has collaborated with performer/rigger Benjamin E. Oyzon, whose functional and poetic rigging design creates dynamic environments for physical storytelling.
In the fall of 2019, Nicki Miller and Benjamin E. Oyzon began research and development on an aerial theatre duet exploring the interpersonal consequences of culturally programmed heteronormative capitalism through the metaphor of an aerial counterweight system. After a workshop showing in November 2019, the duet was set to premiere at Eric Schmalenberger's Blunderland (House of Yes, NYC edition) in March 2020 before being cancelled due to COVID-19.
The duo will resume development at Änver Entertanment’s covid-safe City Point Brooklyn residency for furloughed artists in February 2021. The duet at City Point runs 7 minutes and features music by Solomon Burke in a sound edit by Ben Lieberman.
Photo by Wendy Ploger
Millbrook residency March 2021
In March of 2021 the duet will be expanded to an interdisciplinary episodic film project at a residency in Millbrook, NY with core collaborators Leighann Kowalsky, Mandy Hackman, and Miles Wilder who have begun working remotely. The film process is a ritual of inquiry, probing the boundaries of cultural programming in relationship to our inner and outer communities.
