Dates: May 9-11 and 15-18

Where: Beacon Performing Arts Center, Studio B: 327B Main Street, Beacon, NY

Times vary:
Friday May 9 and Saturday May 10: 8pm
Sunday May 11: 4:30pm,
Thursday May 15: 7:30pm
Friday May 16 and Saturday May 17: 8pm
Sunday May 18: 2:30pm.

Summary: Liturgy for Longing is a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience created and performed by multidisciplinary performing artist Emily Clare Zempel. In Liturgy, audiences of 10 are invited to contemplate longing through collective experiences and solo performance.

Expand: Liturgy: a set of prompts created to encourage communal interaction with deep questions. Longing: that endless tug towards the I-don’t-know.

Why do we long? For what? In Liturgy for Longing, Emily has created a deeply personal, radically honest performance that aims to foster connection and engage audiences in unique and meaningful ways. Each audience member begins by entering a hallway to find a note written for them. After reading, Emily guides them into the theatre space to complete simple tasks (such as setting up a place to sit) to make that space their own. In the invitations that follow, each person is encouraged to engage in ways that feel right to them: there is always a choice, including the choice to observe. These communal elements are woven seamlessly into Emily’s performance of her own story, which unfolds through movement, dance, sound, and music. The audience is an integral part of the experience, making each performance a unique, unrepeatable event.

Funded in part by an Individual Artist Commission from Arts Mid-Hudson and Supported by Beacon Performing Arts Center. Work is self-created and produced.