Taylor Mac: 1836-1956| 1st 12-hour marathon|
Along with Music Director Matt Ray, Co-director Niegel Smith, and Costume Designer Machine Dazzle, internationally award-winning artist Taylor Mac brings to Powerhouse this wildly ambitious, multi-year project, which charts the history of popular music in America from the nation’s founding to the present day. Part concert, part ritual, all fabulous, this audacious, subjective history of the past 240 years is told through the music of the times, one decade per hour.
Experience the project’s first 12-hour/12-decade performance cycle: from noon to midnight on July 30, Taylor whirls us from 1836 to 1956, enjoying stops along the way for songs popular during the Underground Railroad, the Oklahoma land rush, World War I, the Harlem Renaissance, and more.
Additional work-in-progress performances on July 22 and 23 each feature three decades: 1836-1846, 1856-1866, and 1876-1886.
“The love child of David Bowie and Liza Minnelli” (LA Times), Taylor Mac is an Obie Award winning performance artist, playwright and actor who is a 2016 winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award. Watch a video here.