My Obsession with Hamletmachine

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My Obsession with Hamletmachine

“My Obsession with Hamletmachine” is an evening-length dance theater performance that is the result of choreographer Amy Lewis’ long fascination with Heiner Müller’s play Hamletmachine, a work that Müller described as “the description of a petrified hope, an effort to articulate a despair so it can be left behind.” “My Obsession with Hamletmachine” wears the history of recurring violence and the human experience of grief on its sleeves. The piece features appearances from a number of historic figures featured in Hamletmachine, such as Stalin, Walter Benjamin, and Dostoevsky, and others that are familiarly linked. Accompanying the figures in Hamletmachine are Lewis’ own experiences of familial loss. The stories in “My Obsession” are accompanied by dance, an abstract and silent media, and one, Lewis claims, with the power to reshape the past and recontextualize the present.

Tickets:

$20 - Community

$25 - General Admission

$35 - Patron

Fridays have a "pay what you can" option (at the door only).

Accessibility:

Dance Mission Theater is located on the second floor and is accessible by stairs or an elevator. If you are in need of wheelchair seating or have other accessiblity needs, please email [email protected] at least 24 hours prior to the show that you are attending so that we can reserve you a front row seat for you and your companion.

Parking / Public transportation:

Parking around Dance Mission can be difficult, so give yourself plenty of time. The closest parking lot is at 21/Bartlett Streets, about a 5 min walk away. We are DIRECTLY across the street from the 24/Mission BART Station, and are on MUNI Lines 12, 14, 49, 67, and 48.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street, San Francisco, United States