The Movement Theatre Company | HERE Produces
The Essentialisn’t
September 10-28 2025
IN RESIDENCE: July 24 – 28, 2025
Written and Performed by Eisa Davis
A HERE World Premiere in association with The Movement Theatre Company
Can you be Black and not perform? Incorporating art gallery aesthetics and an electronic soul score, Eisa Davis performs a piece about performance, exploring the cultural techniques that make musical expression a kind of imprisonment – or a transcendent liberation.
PERFORMANCE
September 10-28, 2025
At IRT: 154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor)
ADA Accessible
PLEASE NOTE: All sales final and there is no late seating at IRT Theater.
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The Essentialisn’t was originally commissioned by Laura Kaminsky at Symphony Space with funding from the Virginia B Toulmin Foundation. The piece has been supported and developed by The Public Theater, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, The Park Avenue Armory, Christopher Hibma at Sundance Theater Lab, New Georges, Performance Space New York, United States Artists Fellowship, Jack NY, and Creative Capital Foundation.
“Eisa’s brilliance lies in her ability to show us our everyday lives with such a beauty and brilliance, we walk away knowing our pain wasn’t imagined and our survival is nothing short of epic. Her talent blows me away!” —Jacqueline Woodson
IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council; A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatres Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation. Thank you to IndieSpace, and everyone who supports venues like ours in New York City.
ACCESS: IRT is a fully wheelchair-accessible facility. Please reach out to Kori Rushton if you have any accessibility questions or concerns, krushton@irttheater.org
PLEASE NOTE: All sales final and there is no late seating at IRT Theater.