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originally published: 04/05/2022

Lewis Center for the Arts presents "Horsemanship" - a new musical-in-progress

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Lewis Middle for the Arts at Princeton University presentsHorsemanship , a new musical-in-progress about being transgender and searching for the kind of person you want to exist...and horses. The musical was conceived by Princeton Arts Beau Volition Davis and created by Volition Davis and Truth Future Bachman. Performances will be on Friday, April 8 and Saturday, Apr 9 at 8:00pm and Lord's day, April x at ii:00pm in the Wallace Theater at the Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton campus.

The event is complimentary and open to the public, however avant-garde tickets are required through University Ticketing and tin can exist reserved at tickets.princeton.edu. All guests must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to the maximum extent, which now includes a COVID booster show for all those eligible to receive it. Additionally, all guests must wearable a mask when indoors; performers may be unmasked when on phase. Guests in need of access accommodations are asked to contact the Lewis Eye at LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one calendar week prior to the event date.

Will Davis is a trans-identified director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous new piece of work for the phase. His off-Broadway credits includeRoad Show at Encores! Off-Center;India Pale Ale at Manhattan Theatre Club;Bobbie Clearly at Roundabout Underground;Charm  at MCC Theater;Men on Boats at Clubbed Thumb and at Playwrights Horizons, which received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination; andDuat at Soho Rep. Davis' regional theater credits includeSpamtown, The states at Children's Theatre Company;Everybodyat Shakespeare Theatre Company;A Doll's House, Part 2 at Long Wharf Theatre;The Carpenter at Alley Theatre;Colossal at Mixed Blood Theatre and at Olney Theatre Center, for which Davis received a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Managing director of a Play;Evitaat Olney Theatre Center, which received a Helen Hayes Award nomination; and multiple productions for American Theater Company in Chicago, where Davis also served as artistic director. He is an alumnus of the Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab, the New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Directing Fellowship, the Brooklyn Art Exchange's Artist-in-Residence program, and he currently serves on the Theatre Communications Group board of directors.

Truth Futurity Bachman, who has created new music forHORSEMANSHIP, is a composer, vocaliser, and writer of socially focused musicals who uses they/them/their pronouns.The New York Times has described them as "musically and vocally rich," andVulture has praised them for "golden-voiced…soulful vocals." Bachman'due south acclaimed musical collage of songs,Shapeshifters, about the LGBTQ+ community, was developed at an ongoing residency at Joe's Pub, The Delacorte Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Academy of the Arts, and was the inaugural recipient of the Denovan Grant. Bachman publishedFARMED: A Live Podcast Albumin 2020; it is a musical podcast concert, featuring interviews with grassroots leaders and a vocally percussive score for 25 voices. Their other original musicals includeChasing Fear at Cygnet Theatre;Detentionicide at the Time to come of Storytelling Festival;The Proper noun Game at Prospect Theatre Co.;In Existent Life: A Slenderman Musical, a Theatre for a New Audience reading;Pyre Cantataat the HERE Arts Center; andCoromandel at Dixon Place and Here. Bachman is an alum of New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, Joe'south Pub Working Group, New York University'southward Tisch School of the Arts, and they received a 2021 Jerome Hill Fellowship laurels as a finalist in music. Their albumBlue River features several Broadway talents and donates all its profits to arts teaching programs within New York City's boroughs. Bachman was recently featured inTeen Vogue.

Davis describesHORSEMANSHIPas, "a work-in-progress concert of what will be a queer piddling musical near being transgender and horses." Davis elaborates, explaining that this work is "an exploration of my experience transitioning and the way I mapped my aspirations for who I wanted to go as a homo on the concept of a horse." This autobiographical work is composed of monologues performed past Davis; songs sung past Davis, Bachman, and his chorus of horses comprised of Princeton Academy students; and dances based off the form of horse riding known as dressage, which Davis defines as a "system and style of horse movement that can sometimes expect like a horse is performing a ballet." When asked why he identified with a horse, and the metaphor of a equus caballus for transitioning, Davis explained, "with the ability of a equus caballus, the musculature of a equus caballus, the pride a equus caballus takes in itself, I started thinking about testosterone as horsepower. And as I was moving through my transition process, I idea virtually horsepower changing my trunk and turning me into the verbal kind of horse I would want to be."

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Davis is a 2020-22 Princeton Arts Young man. The Arts Fellows program at the Lewis Eye provides back up for early-career artists who take demonstrated both boggling promise and a record of accomplishment in their fields with the opportunity to farther their work while education within a liberal arts context. Funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the David E. Kelley '79 Society of Fellows Fund, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Scholarship Fund, fellows are selected for a two-year residency to teach a class each semester or, in lieu of a grade, to undertake an artistic consignment that deeply engages undergraduate students, such every bit directing a play, conducting a music ensemble, or choreographing a dance slice. In fall 2020 Davis co-taught the Princeton Atelier form, "Maximizing the Minimal: Limerick and Functioning from a Distance," with projection designer and filmmaker Alex Basco Koch. Fellows are expected to be agile members of the Academy'southward intellectual and artistic community while in residence; in return, they are provided the resources and spaces necessary for their work.

To larn more almost this outcome, the Princeton Arts Fellows, and the more than 100 other performances, exhibitions, readings, screenings, concerts, and lectures presented each year by the Lewis Center, most of them free, visit arts.princeton.edu.

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