Lovers’ Discourse in the Lobby
- 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Wednesday August 27, 2025
- The Lobby | Ace Hotel Brooklyn
- 51 Camden St.
Lovers’ Discourse—an immersive dance and Shakespeare medley framed by Roland Barthes in 5 parts:
RAVISHMENT / ROMEOJEALOUSY / IMOGEN+HAMLET
CONCEALMENT / ROSALIND
SEX / CLEOPATRA+ANTHONY
UNION / JULIET + HERMIONE
The piece is directed by Mamie Green, prose arranged by Matthew Gasda, performed by Sophie Becker, Raven Scott, Tim Allen, August Gray Gall, Kimie Parker, Jordan Powell, Marcus Sargeant, Donterreo Culp, Julian Grubman, and Mamie Green. Lighting Design by Henry Mont, with a live score by Alex Merbouti.
𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨’ 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 will run two times, 𝟳:𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟴:𝟯𝟬 𝗣𝗠 and will take place within the lobby of Ace Hotel Brooklyn.
About—
Volta and Mamie Green
Mamie Green’s work fuses physicality, theatricality, and multidisciplinary approaches to performance. Her work with Volta uses a variety of media — dance, poetry, theater, sculpture, and food — to break the boundaries of contemporary dance, creating multifaceted collaborations that engage diverse audiences. Green has toured and taught internationally as Volta’s director and choreographer, with grants from the German Consulate General, the US Embassy, Community Engagement, Seattle Office of Art & Culture, and more. Named in Fjord Review’s Best of Dance 2023, Volta has been commissioned and presented at the Laguna Art Museum, Jeffrey Deitch, MAXXI National Museum Rome, Museum of Neon Art, Brand Library, Neutra House VDL, Loyola Marymount University, and Brooklyn Center Theatre Research, among others, with upcoming engagements at New Theater Hollywood, the Ace Hotel New York, and Skirball Cultural Center.
Alex Merbouti
Alexandre Merbouti is a musician and visual artist born in Manhattan, Kansas. Having grown up between The Bay Area in California, Nantes, France, and Miami, Florida. Alexandre’s art is heavily inspired by his travels and exposure to a large number of cultures and art forms. Through music and film photography and video, Alexandre explores the nuances within human connections, emotions, and ideas. Alexandre has travelled internationally with his original music projects both as a band and solo. He has scored music and collaborated with contemporary dance collectives such as Volta Collective for EAST Hotels. He has performed in galleries and museums such as The Norton Mueseum of Art, and Perez Art Museum in Miami. His photography has been published Wax Poetics in 2022. His video editing work for “HoodMidCenturyModern” was on view at See Galerie, Paris for the 032c Magazine Paris Fashion Week. He continues to carry the legacy of his great grandfather, Smokey McAllister a record producer and artist manager from Jamaica, as well as his grandmother Anita McAllister, who shaped many Black careers in the arts in her long tenure at Grambling University as well as her time as a radio DJ in Birmingham, AL.
Matthew Gasda
Matthew Gasda is a writer and director and the founder of the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research
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