Interested in the human impulse for connection, BABYBABYBABY (2024) taps into feelings of budding romance, when falling in love is silly and fast and sexy and devastating and you are brilliant and stupid and spellbound. With reference points ranging from early aughts romantic comedies and So You Think You Can Dance duets, to archival footage of live performances by Roberta Flack and Nina Simone, to obstacle course TV game shows and clowning, the work stumbles through shades of silliness, irrationality, passion, and grief, calling into question the role of sincerity, earnesty, and truthfulness in performance, and the power of physical states.

Performers: Michael Figueroa, Laila J. Franklin, Jenna Gross, Andrea Muñiz, Marissa Molinar, Sarah Pacheco, Sasha Peterson and Marcel Santiago Marcelino, with contributions from Alexander Davis.

Come take class WITH THE ARTISTS of BABYBABYBABY, November 8 & 9!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
10–11:30am: Club Class-ics / Sarah Pacheco
11:45am-1:15pm: Contemporary Forms / Sasha Peterson

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
10–11:30am: Contemporary Forms (and Functions) / Laila J. Franklin
11:45am-1:15pm: Contemporary Forms / Michael Figueroa