LAVA Presents A Goddessey: work in progress LAVA
About This Show
A feminist survival story that journeys through emotional and geologic landscapes while carrying a transmuting traveler from a bleak and blurry patriarchal present into a rainbow colored feminist future. A Goddessey is the synthesis, culmination, and explosion of 15 years of earth-moving performance by LAVA.
LAVA’s unique movement language integrates handstands, human pyramids, hoop-diving, aerials, wrestling, and post-modern dance in the re-telling of the traditional “hero’s journey” subverting the lone hero’s quest of fights, feats, and loss and instead offering the tale of a string of connected women seeking pre-patriarchal knowledge, unearthing a shared legacy of lost lessons, and enjoying a return home to a vision of future feminist balance and equality.
About the Artist
LAVA is a feminist acrobatic dance company. The company’s unique language of acrobatics and dance invites audiences in to witness the courage, teamwork, humor, and skills of this one-of-a-kind ensemble. LAVA was founded in 2000 by Sarah East Johnson. The company has received an Obie Award and a Bessie award and has presented 13 original productions in New York City at P.S. 122, The Kitchen, The Flea Theater, Dixon Place, Movement Research at Judson Church, The New Victory Theater, Celebrate Brooklyn, Symphony Space, and Dancespace. The LAVA Studio in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn is a home for the company and has been hosting performances, classes, and events for the community since 2004.
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Credits
Directed by Sarah East Johnson
Created and performed by Molly Chanoff, Lollo Romanski, Sarah Dey Hirshan, Hilary Chapman, Mieke D, Efe Alibo, and Alexis Garnett
Music by DJ Tikka Masala
Costumes by Claudia Brown
Lighting by Alison May
Photo Credit: Ian Douglas