About This Show

Trophy is a multi-media dance experience from Los Angeles choreographer Kevin Williamson that follows the pursuits of three millennial dance artists.  In this pixelated world, quotidian life dissolves into fragments of stop-n-go selfies and our protagonists are forced to contend with media authority, feelings of pervasive isolation, and a gnawing pressure to exhibit ‘‘success.’’ Quick, isolated movements, peculiar gestures, and spoken text move with a beat-driven score from experimental composer Jeepneys. Punctuating the athletic rigor of the dancing, filmmaker Cari Ann Shim Sham* projects fractured landscapes onto multiple surfaces. Combined, these elements highlight a disjointed but virtuosic display of contemporary life.

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In and/or, the act of looking, forays into repetition, time based corporeality, and switching between the pedestrian and the grotesque/hyper ‘‘feminine’’ all aim to dissect the daily routine of being in a body being observed. This piece is Queer because we are. We will build things and put our bodies into (maybe) familiar and (maybe) unfamiliar shapes, and we will think about what it means to occupy a body either assigned ‘‘constructed’’ or ‘‘natural.’’

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RUN:RABBIT is a solo interdisciplinary work-in-progress, presented here as a 20 minute excerpt of a longer work. Through collective ritual folkloric storytelling, movement, projections, and aerial performance, Autumn explores the life of a non-binary gendered person as ze discovers and navigates hir controversial multiple personality disorder, repressed sexual abuse, and breast cancer diagnosis. Based on true experiences, records, and memories generously provided by therapist Arlene Mehlman and her patient (currently wishing to remain anonymous), and told in a non-linear manner, RUN:RABBIT immerses the audience in the confusing, frightening, sometimes humorous, and true to life world of a person navigating the extreme challenges of a stigmatized mental disorder, a frightening physical diagnosis, and the pressure to hide one’s sexual identity.