Jason Danino Holt brings interactive experience to The Breman
Gay Tel Aviv-based multidisciplinary artist Jason Danino Holt will kick off his residency at The Breman with an interactive theatre event on May 20.
Holt is the Artistic Director of HABAIT Theatre in Tel Aviv and has been traveling across Metro Atlanta since January researching, writing, and presenting workshops and programs as part of his fellowship with BAMAH. Holt will present the capstone program of his residence, “Confessions. Observations. Conversations,” at The Breman, a non-profit multidisciplinary cultural center in Midtown Atlanta focused on exhibitions, arts, cultural programming, archives, and Holocaust education.
The event will include a lecture followed by an audience-participatory experience inspired by his decade-long work of confessional storytelling and personal narrative, “Not Letting It In.”
Through personal confessions and unscripted moments, the audience will become part of the show’s cast. Attendees can choose to either confess, discuss, and interact with the performers in this supportive, non-judgmental environment or simply sit back and listen.
“Every show is different: what we talk about, the energy, who’s in the room,” Holt told Georgia Voice. “Nobody has to talk, but just being there is performance. It’s presence.”
Through this interactive performance, Holt hopes to foster an energy of humility and reflection among those who attend.
“I hope that [attendees] will remember how powerful listening can be,” he said. “I hope they’ll come curious, and I hope that I’ll learn something… I know that it’s scary, but I hope people can, without knowing me, trust me and The Breman. My intention is for a sense of connectivity and safety.”
A reception will follow the program, where the audience will eat, drink, and reflect on their experience.
“Time spent with Jason Danino Holt is time well spent, as Atlantans who have had the opportunity to experience Jason and his amazing, sharing, challenging creative mind know,” Leslie Gordon, the Executive Director of The Breman, said. “No one who has had an encounter with him has come out unmoved or unchanged, including Jason himself.”
“Confessions. Observations. Conversations” is a free two-hour event on May 20 at 7 p.m. RSVP for free via Eventbrite.
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