Icarus In Heat
Mitchell Fine Arts Center
350 Broadway, W 4th st, Lexington, Kentucky 40508
8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Icarus In Heat is a bold new performance work that reimagines the myth of Icarus in the charged space between father and son. Where desire is inherited, escape is a construction, and fire is not just a warning but an inevitability.
The piece unfolds as a fractured narrative told through movement, music, and shadow puppetry. What begins as a fall becomes a reckoning: with the father who built the wings, the systems that ache for conformity, and the longing that refused containment. At its core, Icarus In Heat interrogates the tension between self-determination and inherited consequence. It asks: What do we carry that was never ours? What must we burn to become? This is not a cautionary tale. It is a confrontation.
May 15 & 16 | 8 PM
May 17 | 2 PM
One Act | One Hour
Mature content/partial nudity
In partnership with Kentucky Ballet Theatre, and Transylvania University