ADF Presents: Jesse Factor

ADF Debut

Program: The Marthaodyssey

Running time: 50 minutes, no intermission

Tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office.

Jesse Factor’s solo work, The Marthaodyssey, joyfully rides a series of productive tensions: authenticity versus artifice, stark minimalism against dazzling spectacle, and high modernist rigor colliding with pop confection. Deeply inspired by the “High Priestess of Modern Dance,” Martha Graham, and the “Queen of Pop,” Madonna, Factor forges a celebratory hybrid where discipline meets excess and devotion flirts with diva. Part modernist archive, part pop-culture pageant, part drag extravaganza—The Marthaodyssey is unapologetically fabulous.

***This performance contains bright & flashing lights, haze, and excessive fabulosity, honey.

Photo Credit: Stephen Pisano

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