Beasts ~PLUS~ Winter Formal Gabrielle Schutz ~PLUS~ Liz McAuliffe

About This Show

Beasts
Created by Gabrielle Schutz

Beasts is an original solo performance exploring the fine line that separates humans from animals. Through dance, music & live-feed video projection, this interdisciplinary performance asks us to examine our own potential for violence. A violin played dangerously, a dancer overwhelmed with animal instincts & a webcast which invites us into a conspiracy theory. Beasts takes the elegance of performance & makes it threatening. Blending personal narrative with science fiction, the story follows two women who are struggling to understand their inner-beasts.

Winter Formal
Created by Liz McAuliffe

Winter Formal takes the sestina, a fixed-verse poetic form, as choreographic inspiration.  Six events repeat six times each throughout the piece, following a spiral pattern.  The events examine memory, shame, queerness & relationshipsnamely the relationships between the audience, the performer & her mother.  The rigid form provides structure & allows the performer to move through the piece with vulnerabilityan open & present body that sees & may be seen.  

About the Artists

Gabrielle Schutz is a New York City based Theatre & Dance artist who focuses on directing, writing & choreographing original performance. As a Director & Choreographer, her work has been featured in the Northwest New Work Festival, the Seattle International Dance Festival,& at Sarah Lawrence College. As a performer, she recently collaborated with David Neumann & Sibyl Kempson in the workshop production of Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag at Sarah Lawrence College. She holds an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College (2015).

Maridee Slater is a director, performer & writer with a penchant for Rock & Roll. She has her MFA in Directing from Columbia University. Recent projects include 5150: a playlist on love & disaster as part of F!ckFest at The Brick, The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard, with original music by Jillie Mae Eddy & Sam Gelband, & You’ve Been Tartuffed (Lickety Split, Off-Broadway). Most recently she produced Jillie Mae Eddy’s The Boys Are Angry at the 2015 NYC Fringe Festival.

Liz McAuliffe is a dancer based in Brooklyn, NY.  She is currently developing a solo performance practice using choreography, voice & poetry to explore memory & queerness.  McAuliffe has danced at venues including Brooklyn Academy of Music, The New Museum, The Invisible Dog, Judson Church & CAVE.  She has collaborated & performed with artists & choreographers including Amy Khoshbin, Zavé Martohardjono, Denisa Musilova & Leimay.  McAuliffe is one half of the Washington D.C. based music project Queer Pressure. 

Wednesday, Mar. 23 at 7:30pm

General Admission 
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

students/seniors/idNYC
$12

Estimated Runtime
65 minutes

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Credits

Beasts
Created & Performed by
Gabrielle Schutz

Directed by
Maridee Slater

Photo Credit
Kevin McNair

Winter Formal
Created & performed by
Liz McAuliffe

Photo Credit
Ryutaro Mishima

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