Performance

Female Genius

1 upcoming performance in New York

Female Genius appears at Bowery Palace as part of a Rock/Pop bill with WeeGee and Liz Lamere. The project uses the language of pop songwriting—hook, repetition, compressed confession—to stage questions about ambition, identity, and who gets called “genius” in the first place. In New York, where scenes are built night by night in rooms like this, the set reads as a small document of the city’s ongoing argument with fame and taste. One clear strength is its restraint: the songs leave space for meaning to land.