Chris Black puts her site-specific choreographic work aside and steps back onstage with a one-woman performance inspired by the life of the famed boxer John L Sullivan. Traveling throughout the US from 1881 to 1892, Sullivan would signal his arrival and willingness to mix it up with "My name is John L. Sullivan and I can lick any son-of-a-bitch in the house.” Wearing a custom suit for the occasion, Black circumvents drag, yet implies that ‘clothes make the man,’ as she incorporates the boxer into her own diminutive but sinewy five foot one, one hundred and five pound frame.
Free parking in the Ashby BART parking lot.
TICKET PRICES: $15. Advance Tickets available at: www.shotgunplayers.org, 510.841.6500. www.shotgunplayers.org.
8pm to 9pm, Ashby Stage 1901 Ashby Avenue
$9 adv / $11 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States
8pm Cajun/Zydeco dance lesson. $12. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
8:30pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA 94702, United States