Within the Downtown scene’s interconnected web, no artist or venue was an island. This program tracks Club 57 performance and theater artists as they flourished across Manhattan club culture and alternative spaces in the early 1980s. The reprise of Ann Magnuson’s Evangelical spoof at the Kitchen boasts choreography by clubber Shawn “AMMO” McQuate, with many more friends and talents in tow. There’s a pair of lively musicals: John Epperson and Andy Rees’s accomplished, original ballet-and-Valley of the Dolls mashup Ballet of the Dolls at Pyramid Club, and Rees and Gaylord’s droll Palladium musical revue Dead Women: The Terminal Musical, featuring Peter Kwaloff, Alexa Hunter, and International Chrysis as Mona Lisa, Joan Crawford, and Marilyn Monroe, among others. Bringing a grittier energy to the mix, Julius Klein’s performance video Sylvester’s Light documents the artist’s experimental hybrid of noise, performance, and vanguard video at No Se No, the Rivington Street social club that became a hotbed of raw performance activity.