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Dates: December 19th, 2025 - December 21st, 2025
Run Time: 60 mins
Venue: Skinner Studio at Plays and Players
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Dead Muse is a darkly comic and interactive dance-theater solo that blurs the lines between Chicano and Jewish American histories in Los Angeles. Its wry humor and minimalist design flips 80 years of precedent about how we talk about the Holocaust and detainment in the modern era.
You follow a struggling actor’s plight through today’s Hollywood haunted by bombed auditions, sexting while driving, and the performer’s dead grandparents. Collectively, the audience witnesses the dancer as he physically inhabits the bodies of his Mexican and Jewish ancestors — told through a microphone, a bare stage, and first-hand testimony.
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Created and Performed by Adam Kerbel
Directed and Designed by Ben Grinberg
Costume consultation by Lena Sands
Creative support by Kathleen Taylor, Jeff Wirth
Illustration by Liz Deleo | Full Time Side Hustle
Video by Mary Isaac, Cannonball
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