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Jack ferver5/21/2023 They act as metaphors – scary stories that offer a release or escape from the more devastating twists and turns of an unquiet mind. Horror movies will never be as terrifying and shocking as the human psyche. “Best dance of 2009” – David Velasco, Artforum ( on Death Is Certain) His writing was recently published in the magazine Novembre. As an actor, credits include Strangers With Candy (Comedy Central), Christopher Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation (Off-Broadway), and numerous other film and theatre projects. (NYC), The Culture Project (NYC), and Envoy Gallery (NYC). Shorter and solo works have been presented at Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), LaMaMa E.T.C. Ferver’s first Mondo Cane! commission was in 2007 for his first full length work: When We Were Young And Filled With Fear. In 2008 Ferver premiered MEAT, his second Mondo Cane! commission from Dixon Place. Ferver was also an artist in residence from 2008-2009 at Chez Bushwick. Death is Certain was workshopped through the Dance Theater Workshop space grant, Studio Series. In 2009 he also premiered his evening length work Death is Certain to sold out audiences at Danspace Project. He was the first choreographer to be presented at The New Museum with I Am Trying to Hear Myself in 2008. ![]() It was also presented in American Realness at Abrons Art Center and at Theatre de Vanves in 2010. His A Movie Star Needs A Movie was commissioned by The New Museum in 2009. Jack Ferver’s Rumble Ghost recently premiered at PS122, and was brought back for their COIL Festival in 2011. Things boil up and over and there is self-mutilation and violence towards MOM and cunnilingus and jetés. However she gets a little more than nervous when it seems Lily may want her part. ![]() The pressure is a lot and she finds a little release, and we mean release, when she meets hot new bad ballet girl in town, Lily (Jack Ferver). And so is the former prima ballerina Winona Ryder, we mean Beth (Matthew Wilkas). And so is the choreographer (Christian Coulson) she works under, and we mean works under. She is also freaking out because she is crazy. She is freaking out because she really wants to play the Swan Queen in the new production of Swan Lake. The same people who brought the smashing success NOTES!!! (their incredibly dramatic parodied reading of Notes on a Scandal) returns with SWAN!!! (their even more incredibly dramatic parodied reading of this years dance away smash: Black Swan). The Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-PandjirisSWAN!!!A sexy, scary, spectacular, salacious, stunning, startling werk from Jack Ferver’s QWAN (Quality Without a Name) Company. Join the LITQB TOGETHER community (post-podcast talkback sessions) Virtual Workshop: Navigating Relational Boundaries Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator Hopefully this podcast (support) can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another. Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. ![]() This can feel like an isolating experience. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. More information at: and in this Podcast: As an actor, he has appeared in numerous films and television series. Ferver is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. The critically acclaimed artist has been presented throughout New York City, most recently at New York Live Arts, as well as domestically and internationally. His genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), explore the seams between fantasy and reality, character and self, humor and horror. Jack Ferver is a New York based writer, choreographer, and director. Jack and I talk about alienation in the queer community, his refusal of categorical thought, accessing pleasure through humor and navigating life as a trauma survivor with an acuity of mind, with an intention to stay present, embrace his psychic inclinations, meditate and engage in therapy.
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