Mixing Room is a site-specific performance experiment that investigates the intersections between person and machine. Created by Lauren Kravitz in collaboration with four movement artists and two sound artists, the project is a response to the performance site, the mixing room of what was formerly the Boedeker Ice Cream Factory. The work reflects the room’s history as a site for cyclical, repetitive processes used to blend, homogenize, and freeze large batches of ice cream, exploring how these mechanical processes are mirrored in various embodied states and physical relationships. Simultaneously holding memories of Dallas’ bygone industrial era and space for potential futures, the site highlights the impermanence of our endeavors. Mixing Room lives in this tension, placing the room’s history in conversation with the present through embodied practice.

Created specifically for close-range viewing, audiences are encouraged to move throughout the space during the performance to witness the piece from different perspectives. 

Created by Lauren Kravitz

Performed by Willow DuBose, Lauren Kravitz, Jennifer Mabus, and Lu Paschal

Live Music by blue gender and Damien Williams

Lighting by Jakob Fenton

Performance Schedule:

Saturday, May 16: 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm

Sunday, May 17: 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm

Notes:

• Enter through the door on Ervay St, and someone will be there to show you up the stairs.

• The performance is on the second floor of the building and is only accessible by stairs.

• There will be some chairs in the performance space for guests who need them.

• You are encouraged to move through the room as the performance progresses, and you are welcome to stand or sit on the floor.

Mixing Room is supported by YoungArts. Special thank you to Sonny Martinez and Cedars Union.