San Francisco, CA
GhostRave: an immersive indigiqueer electronic opera
Hit the dancefloor with a mix of indigiqueer beings and spirits on a time-traveling journey.
Coyote is at it again! When the Trickster stumbles across the 1890 Ghost Dance in western Nevada, he accidentally summons Chayson, an indigiqueer bike messenger, from 1990 San Francisco. Trying to get back home, Chayson launches on a journey across time, space, music, dance, despair, hope, and love. GhostRave unfolds – for Chayson, Coyote, an assortment of Native and indigenous beings and spirits, and most of all the audience – as an immersive adventure from composer Brandon M.P. Roberts and librettist Jerome Joseph Gentes that breaks the rules of dancefloors, spacetime, indigeneity, genderqueerness, opera and theatre. Featuring groundbreaking approaches to musical composition, using DJ formulas and techniques such as harmonic mixing and beat matching to fuse music genres and rhythms. A limited number of tickets will be available for each performance – patrons are invited to sit, stand, drink, and yes, dance! It’s a fresh, original theatre experience coming alive for the first time in this workshop production from TigerBear, the creative production team that brought the immersive kink chamber opera Unbound to Palm Springs and the award-winning Deal With The Dragon to the Magic Theatre. Electronic music, haze effects, flashing lights, light scent design. Hey, it’s a danceclub!
Audience Role
The audience is invited onto the dancefloor throughout the experience. There are human-bodied windguides to help invite and usher people into and out of the action.
Ages: 16 +
There's offstage sexual content, and given that it's Coyote, there's a lot of profanity and sex, but nothing violent.
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About TigerBear Productions
Palm Springs-based, TigerBear Productions launched in 2019 to tell stories every way we can. Founded and directed by Jerome Joseph Gentes, we specialize in live experiences, both in-person and virtual. Immersive experiences are only one of the many modalities we deploy to make stories happen.