About This Show

The Origin of Irrevery traces the path to self-realization through music, dance, film, and poetry. Drawing from Wagner’s concept of Gesamtkuntswerk, Jungian psychology, the vernacular of country music, and the imagery of Butoh, German Expressionism, and Bauhaus, The Origin of Irrevery is a staged telling of a psychological odyssey. It centers around SHE, a frowning misfit in a world run by THEM, smiling, normal, and growing increasingly more uncomfortable by HER inability to smile along as well. We meet HER at the end of a silent, personal war with THEM, HER subconscious on the eve of the brink of confrontation. This confrontation and the eventual construction and deconstruction of The Mask, a visage developed to impress THEM and conceal HER true nature, is guided by IRREVERY.