In the Lounge Gershwin Live: Dream State Martha Williams & BugHouse United
About This Show
After losing both her fiancé and the starring role in Pantomime the Musical to Patty, a 20-something who talks like a bouncy Barbie, Melody Smith, seeks revenge on a similar parallel group of ladies. But when Melody is called out by these 20-somethings, the pain of universal female hatred rises and an unusual bond begins to form between her, these ladies and her old-school feminist boss and friend. Together they try to start a movement toward inter-archy, one part matriarchy, one part patriarchy. It turns out the road to good intentions are lined with ambition, contradiction and a twisted subconscious.
About the Artist
Martha Williams took the circuitous route to her current state of prolific and ravenous art-making. She started by throwing elbows on the basketball court in college and overseas. Then she did an unlikely 360° after college, she started dancing professionally. By 2005, Ms. Williams had made Dance Magazine and acted in Spike Lee’s She Hate Me. That’s when her gaze turned toward film. Seeing Saburo Teshigawra’s Bones in the Pages, she realized she leaned as much toward the image as the body and sound. In 2007 she completed her first film work, Broken Rose Portal, which toured international festivals. And after staging her last full-length evening dance work in 2008 at the Joyce SoHo, Martha ventured to CalArts for an MFA in Film Directing. There she wrote and directed 10 short films and finished writing a feature script. She’s now back in New York, hosting a live storytelling series called The BugHouse SPIN, developing several personal projects, as well as working as a creative consultant and video/animation director.
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Alexo Wandael