Donna Uchizono - Dedications (participant ticket)

Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

"Participant" ticket buyers will receive a personal dance dedication. "Witness" ticket buyers will be invited to watch the dedications as they happen.

Donna Uchizono, alongside artists Joanna Kotze, Antonio Ramos, and Jordan Lloyd, will offer a series of dance dedications exploring the body’s expansive capacity to listen. Grounded in the question “if you were to dedicate a dance to a person, who would that be?”, the dancers invite the audience to talk about someone they would like to dedicate a dance to in a mutually vulnerable exchange, anchored by the weight of trust and intimacy. Each dancer will then create a dedication informed by our ongoing research and development of the body as a reservoir of felt histories. Limited participants will sign up for an individual timeslot to receive their dedication. Tickets are also available for those who simply wish to witness the process. Each hour-long time slot will start with a 10-minute conversation about the dedicatee and end with a reflection on the dance.

 

A Note On Ticket Prices

Starting in December 2023, The Chocolate Factory Theater will implement a new tiered ticketing price structure, with the goal of remaining accessible to every person who wishes to attend our events while acknowledging the very real value of the service - namely, artistic and administrative labor - that a ticket purchase represents; and adjusting for the realities of inflation and the ever-increasing cost of…everything.

We now offer a range of ticket prices; and ask that you select the option that best reflects your individual circumstances:

1. $35 (our new base price - the equivalent of one hour of labor for a lead artist, performer, design collaborator or technician)
2. $20 (the price we have historically charged, for more than ten years, without an increase)
3. $10 
4. $50
5. $100
6. $275 (the actual, unsubsidized value of a ticket, if box office was our sole source of income)

Our intention here is not to create walled gardens or tiers of access based on monetary status; we’re merely trying to make our practice - of paying artists, technicians and administrative staff a fair wage (more than 80% of our annual budget goes to labor, fyi) - more sustainable (or truthfully, less unsustainable), while remaining (we hope!) accessible and welcoming to all.

As a ticket buyer, you’ll receive the same experience regardless of the price you pay. It’s general admission for everyone. In other words: if you’re used to paying $20, and that feels right to you, nothing will change. If you can pay more, please pay more; if you need to pay less, pay less. We’ll operate on the honor system, no questions asked; and we’ll see how it goes.