Enter the Artist
This was the second performance I ever made. I was thinking of how male artists represent women in their art and art-making. Specifically I was wanting to reflect and respond to film director Pedro Almodóvar (this silent film within "Hable con Ella"), Federico Fellini (a harem dream sequence in "8 1/2"), and a photo of Salvador Dalí in front of a surrealist human skull made of naked women.
March 2007
Random with a Purpose
at University of California at Santa Cruz
Choreography: Jorge De Hoyos
Performance: Emilia Aiello, Aria Benham, Meredith Brockride, Cecilia Fairchild, Bianca Garcia, Kaja Gibbs, Preston Greene, Molly McGraw, Sonia Murthy, Krystal Passy, Eliana Polon, Breanne Simmons, Miranda Veenhuysen
Music:
Hable con Ella by Alberto Iglesias ft. Vicente Amigo & El Pele
Gymnopedie No. 3 by Eric Satie
Frederic Chopin’s Nocturne for Piano No. 7 in C Sharp Minor Op. 27 played by Vitalij Margulis
Duration: 15 minutes
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Inspired by Pedro Almodovar, Federico Fellini and a photo of Salvador Dali in front of a skull image made up of nude female bodies, I was curious to examine how these male artists use/muse/honor/exploit/work with/write women?
This is the second piece I ever made, and it's one of my favorites. It was done at UC Santa Cruz when I was in the Theater Arts Graduate Certificate program in early 2007.
I was so grateful for working with the cast who so generously allowed me to explore ideas on their bodies and group body...bravery and generosity and curiosity. It's a problematic piece for sure in terms of power dynamics: relationship between the "artist" and the "muse(s)", gender politics!, control and personal agency/autonomy. If something is beautiful then that does excuse a fucked up politic or dynamic that is represented beautifully? Who is the artist and who owns the art/art making? These and other questions really came to a head in my later piece called STICK which I did almost exactly 2 years later.
Random with a Purpose
at University of California at Santa Cruz
Choreography: Jorge De Hoyos
Performance: Emilia Aiello, Aria Benham, Meredith Brockride, Cecilia Fairchild, Bianca Garcia, Kaja Gibbs, Preston Greene, Molly McGraw, Sonia Murthy, Krystal Passy, Eliana Polon, Breanne Simmons, Miranda Veenhuysen
Music:
Hable con Ella by Alberto Iglesias ft. Vicente Amigo & El Pele
Gymnopedie No. 3 by Eric Satie
Frederic Chopin’s Nocturne for Piano No. 7 in C Sharp Minor Op. 27 played by Vitalij Margulis
Duration: 15 minutes
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Inspired by Pedro Almodovar, Federico Fellini and a photo of Salvador Dali in front of a skull image made up of nude female bodies, I was curious to examine how these male artists use/muse/honor/exploit/work with/write women?
This is the second piece I ever made, and it's one of my favorites. It was done at UC Santa Cruz when I was in the Theater Arts Graduate Certificate program in early 2007.
I was so grateful for working with the cast who so generously allowed me to explore ideas on their bodies and group body...bravery and generosity and curiosity. It's a problematic piece for sure in terms of power dynamics: relationship between the "artist" and the "muse(s)", gender politics!, control and personal agency/autonomy. If something is beautiful then that does excuse a fucked up politic or dynamic that is represented beautifully? Who is the artist and who owns the art/art making? These and other questions really came to a head in my later piece called STICK which I did almost exactly 2 years later.
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