KAT SOTELO: A DEVOTION TO SERVICE
26th September, 2025 – 27th September, 2025
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002
The Brooklyn-based artist stages an evening-length work in peep show booths, blending pop nostalgia, family history and explorations of power.
Abrons Arts Center will present the premiere of A Devotion to Service, a new evening-length work by the performance artist Kat Sotelo, on 26 and 27 September at the Experimental Theatre.
The piece, staged in mobile peep show booths, explores the intersections of eroticism and servitude, Catholic and Filipino identities, and the dynamics of power and pleasure. Drawing on choreography from Sotelo’s childhood dance recitals, as well as physical comedy, video and pop music, the performance aims to subvert traditional ideas of authority within individuals, cultures and communities.
Courtesy of KAT SOTELO
Audiences will be invited to enter the booths before the performance begins. Alongside Sotelo, the work features four performers — including the artist’s father — as well as a rotating group of non-performers recruited shortly before each show through online platforms and power-exchange networks.
Sotelo, a first-generation Filipino American artist based in Brooklyn, is currently an artist-in-residence at Movement Research, the Centre for Performance Research and GALLIM Dance Company, and a Hybrid Arts Lab Fellow at Theater Mitu. Their work often engages with voyeurism, kink and spectacle, using the body as a site of commerce and memory.
A Devotion to Service
Written, directed and choreographed by Kat Sotelo
Performers
Kat Sotelo
Gigi del Rosario
Gabriella Acquaviva
Jake Dibeler
Juanito Sotelo
Seven non-performers
Production
Lighting designer/technical director: Nico Cabalquinto
Sound designer: Andrew Fox
Set designer: Kat Sotelo
Scenic fabrication: Pete Razon
Stage manager: Mars Juno Bartolome Neri
Abrons Arts Center, part of the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, presents contemporary interdisciplinary work alongside exhibitions, residencies and community arts programmes.
KAT SOTELO: A DEVOTION TO SERVICE opens on the 26th of September, 2025 until the 27th of September, 2025 at Abrons Arts Center
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