About This Show

Created & performed by Sara Juli
Dramaturgy by Michelle Mola
Lighting design by David Ferri
Set design by Pamela Moulton
Costumes by Carol Farrell
Sound design by Ryan MacDonald
Production Management by Justin Moriarty

With her comically idiosyncratic text-driven dance style, Juli takes on monogamy, intimacy, loneliness, sex deprivation, and other impossibilities of marriage. In a pepto-bismol pink bathroom, this dance-theater-comedy tackles the taboo and urgent social topic of the detritus of committed partnerships, sparking intimate conversations while blowing up the marital institution with humor, controversy, and explicit personal musing and disclosure. For mature audiences only.

“An imaginative and brave show performed with fearless vulnerability by the warm, wild, and untamed Sara Juli.” – Broadway Baby 

Co-commissioned by Dixon Place, American Dance Festival (NC), SPACE (ME), and Portland Ovations (ME), Burnt-Out Wife is made possible with public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs w/the City Council; and private funds from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, w/lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.