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Her work "Bodycast, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Frances McDormand" was presented as part of the 2013 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Next Wave Festival, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, September 15 – December 19, 2009
Recently Charles was back on stage in the Off Broadway production "Lightning at Our Feet", inspired by poet Emily Dickinson, under the direction of Obie winner Bob McGrath, with film maker Bill Morrison and composer Michael Gordon, which was part of the Next Wave festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 2008, where she sang and acted, channeling the iconic 19th century poet.
She participated in Vito Acconci’s Theater Project for a Rock Band as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 1995 and also performed with Kathy Acker in her lesbian pirate operetta Pussy, King of the Pirates at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and elsewhere.