Funny Uncle Cabaret
2024/25 The DC Presents
About Funny Uncle Cabaret:
Funny Uncle Cabaret first act is a retelling of the Nutcracker story through the lens of LGBTQ+ lives and families of choice- including the adoption of Peter DiMuro’s niece. Having played a funny uncle as Drosselmeier in the Nutcracker, and now one in real life, Peter shares these excepts of thsee stories in Funny Uncle Cabaret, aside others’ recounting of their own unique family situations through song, dance and narratives. This years special guests to FUCabaret include members of the drag community in Boston, including Mizery and Linda Marie Possa appearing, members of Public Displays of Motion’s core collaborators including Irene Lutts, Ann Fonte and Kristin and Tony Guglietti (and possibly son, 10 month old Nico!) And for the first time, Funny Uncles will include the debut of “Our Queer Family Storybooks”, excerpts of a new PDM project that helps queer families create translations of their unique story into multi-media performances. The second act of Funny Uncle Cabaret is just that- a cabaret! Our musical directors- Andy Lantz on 12/14; Brian Patton on 12/15) will lead the audience in some sing alongs that will include special pop up performances by our cast and surprise guests from the Boston Cabaret scene. You may. even get to sing a song solo- especially if it has a queer twist to it: I saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus, maybe?
Funny Uncle is supported in part by Cambridge Arts. |
About Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion:
Boston-based Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion (PDM) creates dance and dance/theatre, translating the humane within everyday lives into extraordinary studies of the human condition. Driven by collaborative models, the company brings together a sum of ages, races, queer and disabilities communities to create diverse subject matter and metaphor for their works on site, on stage, on screens. Through creative practice and products, the company is an agent of advocacy and creativity literacy. The company of dancer/collaborators is adept in multiple movement and performance techniques and spans an age-range of six decades. Guest collaborators are often engaged in the processes and performances of the work, and have included those from the LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities, seniors and youth, disabilities communities, and intersections of civic entities and citizenry, staffs of business organizations and family groups. The engagement process of culling personal histories and movement through inquiry and guided movement development creates a rare communicative power that translates into performances. Performances can be grand spectacles on-site, miniature, intimate dances on tabletops, dynamic explorations of words and images made for video and screen, or more traditional performances on stages. PDM has been supported in residencies at the The Yard/Martha’s Vineyard, Vermont Performance Lab, Boston Dance Alliance, Villa Victoria Cultural Center/Boston (through support from New England Foundation for the Arts’ Creative City grant), The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA, where Peter is the Executive Artistic Director. Recent performances have included the debut performances at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and at Gibney Dance in NYC in 2018; at Boston’s famed Hatch Shell in several commissions from Landmarks Orchestra; and at Boston’s Museum of Science, virtually, in a collaboration with Masary Studios. |
Ticket Registration:
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Julie Ince Thompson Theatre
Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion
Street shoes are not allowed in the studio at any time.