The Biting School, Nancy Lee 李南屏, and Mohammadreza Akrami are Here For Now, May 20 and 21

Volume 3 of the cross-disciplinary art event features experimental theatre, sound, and contemporary dance

HERE FOR NOW is a cross-disciplinary art event that hosts boundary-pushing experimental work in unconventional spaces. Coproduced by Slice Next Door (1636 Venables Street), volume 3 features The Biting School, Nancy Lee 李南屏, and Mohammadreza Akrami on May 20 and 21 with shows from 6:30 to 8:30 pm and 9 to 11 pm, with a social hour from 11 pm to midnight. The artists will explore ideas of touch and intimacy, sentience, and selfhood through experimental theatre, sound, and contemporary dance.

Co-founded by Arash and Aryo Khakpour, The Biting School draws on history, literature, and philosophy to look at challenging social and political issues in their theatrical works. Lee is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary media artist, curator, filmmaker, DJ, and cultural producer. Born in Tehran, Akrami is a dance artist based in Montreal and Toronto.

With options to sit, interact with the work, or come and go from the performances, audiences are invited to move through the evening as they wish. Slice of Life's gallery shop will be open, carrying wares by local artists and makers.

Articles

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Stir Q&A: Director Stephen Drover takes Macbeth into a dystopian near-future at Bard on the Beach

The veteran theatre artist grappled with big questions of good and evil, and took inspiration from genre films, for his visually stylized new adaptation

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Merry Wives of Windsor star is an old hand at bringing Sir John Falstaff to the stage

Ashley Wright has helmed it himself, but in Bard on the Beach’s new production, he plays Shakespeare’s dissolute knight under the capable direction of Rebecca Northan

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London’s Three Legged Race Productions folds in influences from contemporary circus to cabaret in a raucously funny show that celebrates a ’90s-style birthday at The York Theatre