Coney Island Ritual Cabaret 2025: Resist Stance
International Culture Lab mounts its eighth annual festival of neobutoh performance, with programming that mixes ritualistic physical theater with dance, cabaret, burlesque and sideshow elements. This year's edition is organized around the theme of resistance, so radical oppositional political content will certainly be on the menu. The fest is divided into three slates of short performances, all hosted by Ritcab T. Clownington: "Mythical Beasts" on March 28 and "Black Magic" on March 29, each of which comprises five pieces; and "The Living Newspaper," the March 30 matinee, which has nine of them (with titles like Trump’s Nightmare, Executive Disorder and Donny Walks the Plank). Leigh Ann Gann's Sacred Bone Alignment and Mae B Raab's Proof of Dance are in the venue's Freak Bar for all three shows.