Songs of Body Michelle Sui

About This Show

Songs of Body is a cycle of evolving musical performances of different perspectives in time performed in different locations, each one a stand-alone piece and part of a greater whole, each one different from the last. Inspired by women’s folk songs of Eastern Europe, Georgian folk and liturgical music, the architecture of a house, and the contemporary mapping of the female body, this embodied music score returns to Dixon Place, where it first began, as a multi-sensory theatrical experience that elaborates on the stories and songs of the house/body.

About the Artist

Michelle Sui is a Chinese-born multi-disciplinary artist, performer & director based in New York. A graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing/NYU, she creates theatrical compositions integrating theatre, music, dance, film, and interactive/new media in the US and abroad.

As actor and singer, Michelle has performed in New York at venues such as Park Avenue Armory, Zlatne Uste Golden Festival, Dixon Place, Wild Project, Theaterlab, and New York Open Center; and internationally in Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Shanghai, and Tbilisi, Georgia.

Michelle’s research in the human voice and women’s folk music traditions has taken her on recent travels to Georgia, Turkey, Armenia, China, Croatia, Slovenia, and Poland. Her multimedia works draw upon memory, geography, language in translation, and the politics and landscapes of body and femininity. Frequently collaborating with cross-genre artists, she is committed to creating innovative hybrid works that open up space for conversations between disparate places in our global world.

Saturday, June 25 at 7:30pm

General Admission

$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Students/Seniors/idNYC

$12

Estimated Runtime
70 minutes

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Credits

 

composed, developed, and directed by
Michelle Sui

scentscape and glass design by
Goldie Poblador

arduino sensors and programming by
Josh Gordonson & Dan Timmons

sound design by
Zach Rosenberg & Michelle Sui

costume design by
Amanda Roberge

lighting design by
Elizabeth Stewart

choreography by
Michelle Sui

assistant choreographed by
Emily Wolfe

production assisted by
Holly D’Atri

produced by
Julia Kennelly & Michelle Sui

Photo credit
Alana Bonilla

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