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A Note On Ticket Prices

The Chocolate Factory Theater now offers a 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.

We ask that you select the option that best reflects your individual circumstances. This is not a “pay what you wish” scenario; rather, it’s “pay as much as your circumstances allow”. For context: in the absence of outside funding, a true cost ticket to a Chocolate Factory performance would be $275.

Our tiered options are as follows:

1. $35 (base price – the equivalent of one hour of labor for a lead artist, performer, design collaborator or technician)
2. $25
3. $15
4. $50
5. $100
6. $275 (true cost ticket)

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.

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

Bottom Edge Air feels through public symbols and characters to reckon with our bodies as weapons and subjects of crisis.

This project continues Yim’s research on dissociation to understand it as an expression of our collective interiority, thinking beyond the language of symptom and through a somatically metaphysical and quantum lens.

This iteration will feature a series of overlapping duets that begin with two subjects, Elon Musk’s personal “Tesla Roadster” and “Starman”, a mannequin astronaut, who in 2017 were rocket launched into space, marking a significant gesture towards SpaceX’s colonial project.

Bottom Edge Air will be accompanied by live audio description by Kiera Bono. It is supported in part by Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, a subsidized space residency from Lower Manhattan Culture Council on Governor’s Island.

Performed by: Cynthia Chang, Ella W-S, lu yim, Nami Yamamoto, Takahiro Yamamoto, Yining Chi, Kiera Bono. Audio Description: Kiera Bono. Costumes: Laurel Atwell. Lighting: Maggie Heath. Installation: DB Amorin.