8 More Must-See Atlas Intersections Highlights

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M. Cristina Garcia‘s Tacones (Rhymes with Cojones), a play that was a hit at last year’s Capital Fringe Festival.This weekend, Garcia’s queer immigrant story will be granted a reprise with a performance as part of this year’s Atlas Intersections Festival. (3/12)A showcase of innovative, typically genre-straddling, and mostly local performing artists, the festival “presents work that impacts our society, culture, and world by informing, inspiring, educating, and entertaining,” to quote the official description.

The 2023 Intersections kicked off in mid-February and will effectively wrap up in late March. (The festival’s true last production comes a full month later with a performance by Rae Grey Dance Collective.)The programming falls into three principal categories, labeled as Movement or dance-oriented, Sound or music-based, and Story, a mix of theater, spoken word, and film.Intersections will reach its peak this weekend, with 12 different shows on tap.

Programmed opposite Tacones this Sunday afternoon, March 12, is another highlight, Flying Car: How Great Was the Future?A true multimedia experience, the performance includes recorded imagery drawn from “Sparklers,” the daily video series that Andrew Earle Simpson created during pandemic lockdown in 2020, which will screen accompanied by music — a mix of live and recorded, vocal and instrumental, and in styles from pop to folk to jazz to electronic to world — and in tandem with dance pieces from Lucy Bowen McCauley and Dancers created to be in dialogue with the film, story, and song. (3/12)After this weekend, the festival will be down to its final seven productions.

One highlight next weekend is the launch of The Celestial Splang-A-Lang, an 18-piece jazz orchestra led by.