Elastro: SMACT Ensemble, Yes Yes Nooky, Giallorenzo/Jesalva/Damon

We have a very special Elastro series to close out 2025! Join us for the debut of the SMACT Ensemble, featuring Cristal Sabbagh, Jayve Montgomery, Kim Alpert, Chris Corsano, and Nick Turner. These five are such integral parts of our vibrant Elastic community, and this particular quintet might blow the roof off our building with sound, movement, and video.

"Yes Yes Nooky," takes inspiration from the evocative Barbara Hammer work "No No Nooky T.V." (1987), an exploration of desire, technology and queer expression in a political moment in which sex was radical and pathologized. While considerably different from the HIV/AIDS era Hammer worked through, our current political moment restages similar conservative, repressive sycophants under the guise of “family values,” in an effort to bulldoze difference. This performance reclaims the perverse, the sex positive, the immature and the inappropriate as a methodology to resist our most recent tyranny. Dirty words, lyrical play, flashes of naughty bits, and oversexed/stimulated images ask the audience to partake in a process of building a licentious space for resistance.

We’ll open the evening with a first time trio of Paul Giallorenzo on keys/synth, Caroline Jesalva on violin, and Tyler Damon on drums. Music at 8pm!

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