FRAGILE FEMME

December 6, 2021 | 7pm | Senate Garage Kingston

An evening of semi-immersive chamber music, poetry, and dance examining femmephobia, both historical and contemporary.

Through exploration of music and texts spanning many years and vastly different lived experiences, The Fragile Femme seeks to validate and uplift not only our natural responses to suffering of femme individuals, but also illuminate the strength that exists within those historically “feminine” qualities. We as a society will find liberation in embracing the powerful qualities of the Fragile Femme — vulnerability, empathy, sensuality, softness — while imagining the abundant possibilities for femmes of the future.

This program included works by long-established American composers including George Crumb, Jake Heggie, and Augusta Read Thomas, new favorites like Annika Socolofsky and Sarah Kirkland Snider, and three world commissions by up-and-coming composers Loren Greer, Christopher Bell, and Emily Boyaijan.

This project raised funds for Grace Smith House, Poughkeepsie.