Make Me Cry

Presented at Tangente

Make Me Cry is an existential solo about the problematization of the performance of race onstage filtered through the psyche of artist Tia Ashley Kushniruk. What does it mean to be the object versus the subject of a fetish? What happens when the public self follows one into private life? And can abstraction belong to those who aren’t white? Through a performance-lecture that uses dance, clown, anecdote and performance theory, we are brought to the minefield of minstrelsy that accompanies BIPOC artists creating work that is deemed valuable for the consuming public.

Choreography and performance| Tia Ashley Kushniruk

Dramaturgy and direction | Philip Jonah Logan Geller

Lighting design | Trent Crosby

Stage management | Eryn Hayes

Production assistance and surtitling | Claudia Kulay