Choreography by Kathryn TeBordo. Poetry By Dorothea Lasky. Costumes by colleen catherine connelly and Wendy Jane Hyatt. 10-30 minutes. 3-6 performers. (2008)
A quiet shout of poetry and dance and raw heart.
Pictured (l-r): Laura Neuman, Dorothea Lasky.
Small is a complex issue, culturally, emotionally, physically. At what point does something become big enough to notice? Big enough to matter?
AFTER FANTASTIC is a low-tech, wildly experimental concert dance that uses the poetry of Dorothea Lasky, shouted live by the performers, as a score for rhythmically acute, dynamically nuanced physicality that challenges audience expectations of what they’ll see when they go to see dance. Ferocious dancing on a scale of centimeters helps audiences hear the poetry and feel it’s themes of friendship, self-actualization, and art making. This work is especially for people who live to encounter the sublime, who are attuned to their own creative force, and who urgently believe in their mortality.
WATCH an interview with choreographer Kathryn TeBordo at streettalkin.com
HEAR Dorothea Lasky reading selections from AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and other poems on Penn Sound
READ a City Paper feature about Wendy Jane Hyatt’s artist collective PIFAS and learn about their utopia at pifas.net
PRESS
tight little movements… as if every word or sentence or exclamation you could speak had always had an action behind it that you just couldn’t see until now.” -Ellery Biddle, Live Arts Festival Blog
“Dorothea Lasky’s debut, Awe (Wave Books, 2007), has the force of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”, the messiness of a battlefield amputation, the candor of a child who asks, “Were you born like that?”, and the craving of a customer who orders a banquet spread containing only marzipan and raw heart.” -Stephanie Anderson, Growler Poetry Review
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Group Motion Multi-Media Dance Theater
SPIEL UHR Performance Series
October 18-19, 2008
Venue: Meeting House Theater
philadelphia live arts festival+phillyfringe
Mascher Space Cooperative’s IN FLUX
August 29-31, 2008
Venue: Arts Bank (wheelchair accessible)
An Evening of Duets, curated by Devynn Emory
June 2008
Venue: Susan Hess Modern Dance
paraphrase/NEXUS
February 2008
Venue: NEXUS/ foundation for today’s art
IN FLUX Performance Series
December 2007
Venue: Mascher Space Cooperative
CAST
2008
Dorothea Lasky & Devynn Emory, Sarah Gladwin Camp, Jung-eun Kim, Ky Mettler, Laura Neuman.
2007
Sarah Gladwin Camp, Rowan Haigh, Betsy Herbert, Laura Neuman, Daniele Strawmyre, Julianna Zinkle.