"Danielle Abrams is an interdisciplinary artist who works in performance and video. She is a monologist, a talk-show host, a ballroom dance teacher, and a stand-up comedian of yesteryear. She channels a multiracial cast of family members, and incites participatory extravaganzas. Abrams performs at art galleries, museums, theaters, and performance spaces. Her characters also wax poetic from park benches, barbeque "butch burgers", and lead Conga lines through a Borscht-Belt mirage. Family and social histories are the material Abrams kneads to create real-time work about people, neighborhoods, and eras. Recalling a post-World's Fair Flushing; a Coney Island heyday; Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn; and a 1950's Harlem, Abrams utilizes the tropes of personae to inquire about social relationships and cultures. She challenges our reliance upon origin and biography through embodying characters of multi-gendered and cross-cultural kin. In Abrams' performances, she reveals the frolic, toxicity, poignancy, and revolutionary potential that is created at the intersection of diverse communities."
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"In Early Bird, Dew Drop Lady (performed by Danielle Abrams) converses with a community of seniors about Passover, Florida, and her lineage which is not only Jewish, but Black too. Less an Early Bird and more like a Canary in a Coal Mine, Dew Drop Lady surveys the toxic beliefs that lie latent in the minds of a homogeneous community."
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