Photographs: Paula Court
Two Alike
Written, Choreographed, and Performed by Jack Ferver
Set by Marc Swanson
Associate Direction by Joshua Lubin-Levy
Music by Roarke Menzies
Costume Design by Reid Bartelme
Lighting by Jack Ferver, Joshua Lubin-Levy, Marc Swanson
Two Alike, a collaboration between Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson, is a visceral and darkly humorous performance exploring the shattering effects of abused queer youth. Existing in an alter-space, housing childhood fantasies and turbid adult obsessions, Ferver acts as the emotive flesh and voice inside of Swanson’s eerie mirrored set/sculpture. Ferver delivers a performance that twists and turns between past and present with text ranging from pastoral prose to the maniacally confessional and haunting choreography built from interviews between the two artists, improvisation, and states of trance.
“A work with such frequent shifts between the heartbreaking to the hilarious to the hopeful… A thing of beauty and suffering, all at once.”
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
2012 Institute of Contemporary Art. Boston, Massachusetts.
2012 The Kitchen. New York, New York.
2011 *DiverseWorks Artspace. Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston. Houston, Texas.
*Premiere
Two Alike premiered in Houston as the first collaboration between Diverse Works and the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston., TX in September 2011. It was subsequently commissioned by The Kitchen in New York, NY in May 2012 and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA in June 2012