If we have gained any clarity in the time since our sold-out run of COWBOY in 2019, it’s that nothing is promised. Everything we do and everything we create is fleeting, but ideas have a way of coming back around. When we can’t be sure of what’s next, we stick it out. We see it through. When nothing can be done, we do it anyway. Over the past two years, Boy Friday has shown work at Arts on Site and Chez Bushwick, held a residency with CUNY Dance Initiative, and received a 2022 NYSCA award. Now, we need your help to keep going. The premiere of a new evening-length work is fast approaching, and your donation ensures its success.

You Always Do This to Me is a dance-play that finds the Audience and the Performer caught in a tangled relationship. We watch as these not-quite-lovers replay memories of the past, unfurling their circular symbiosis through dance and conversation. Movement winds itself into gestural particulars and releases into stormy unison, and spoken text invokes a lyrical vignette of love, lust, and social disruption. Youthful imagery hides a long and turbulent history in scenes that search for logic in the collision of disparate characters who are bound to each other by forces of circumstance. Like the structure of the piece, the setting is both surreal and familiar–the dance-play inhabits a cozy living room inside the house where all your dreams took place as a child. You Always Do This to Me asks us, “How do we keep ending up here together?”

The money we raise goes towards artist fees, rehearsal space, production fees and administrative support—all necessary dollars needed to provide an engaging theatrical performance. Your support is monumental and a donation of any amount (even sharing this fundraiser with friends) helps bring us closer to our needed goal. We are beyond thrilled to share this new work with you! Now more than ever, we cannot do this without you.

Every. Dollar. Counts.

$3,600 for artist pay (the most important, don’t you agree?)

$1,500 for sets, costumes, and magic

$1,500 documentation, administrative, and production expenses

*All donations are tax-deductible to the extend permitted by law* 

We are asking you to join us in the creation of art and there is still so much to be done. Boy Friday is committed to creating work that is accessible & exciting & supplying top-notch audience experiences. It’s risky and it’s out of our budget! We simply cannot do this project without your support. YOU mean the world to us. Please consider helping us reach our goal.  

Boy Friday is a New York–based company creating surreal performance experiences charged with social commentary. Situated at the intersection of movement, visual art, and storytelling, our work bends the myth of "normal" into a mirage of queer utopia full of futurity and potentiality. Boy Friday’s theatrical events feel distant yet familiar, inviting audiences to come close and make decisions about the kind of experience they want to have. The common and mundane are ornamented to draw attention to the strange beauty of everyday life, and identity pervades the work with subtle urgency.

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