24/10/2001
Shed
Mobius, Boston
Mobius Artists Group presents Shed, a choreographed melodrama on the subjects of love, work, and war, featuring apathetic cowgirls and their superheroine counterparts, by the Expanding Secret Company, a feminist dancetheater ensemble based in Glover, Vermont.
Dancetheater
October 2001
MOBIUS ARTISTS GROUP Presents
"Shed" by the Expanding Secret Company
Mobius Artists Group presents "Shed", a choreographed melodrama on
the subjects of love, work, and war, featuring apathetic cowgirls and
their superheroine counterparts, by the Expanding Secret Company, a
feminist dancetheater ensemble based in Glover, Vermont.
Thurs.-Sat., Oct. 25-27, 8 pm.
(Boston) The Expanding Secret Company, a political dancetheater
ensemble based in Glover, VT, performs "Shed", a choreographed drama
about self-absorbed cowgirls dealings with men, and their
superheroine counterparts, who end up waging war against a capitalist
empire. This strange political piece poses far-ranging philosophical
and strategic questions about resistance and the form
social-political engagement should take. "Shed" was created ten years
ago in San Francisco as a response to the Gulf War. Throughout this
year "Shed" has been unfolding in episodes in town halls and
nightclubs around Vermont.
(Bio.) Director Tamar Schumann Thorne combines elements of dance,
music, and traditional theater to create an
expressionist work that is feminist and political. Schumann Thorne is
the eldest daughter of Bread and Puppet Theater founders, Peter and
Elka Schumann, and while they share basic political ideology and an
appreciation for the absurd, you would never come across foul-mouthed
females wrangling with lesbian love in the ring at Bread and Puppet.
Or a corresponding trio of glamorous women in gowns plotting an
anarchist-feminist ecotopia.
Performers include: Caleb Creavan as the lone man; Nessa Rabin plays
the lovesick cowgirl, Gem, and Star, the delicate revolutionary;
Maria Schumann is the brutalist femme cowgirl, Bianca, and Cloud, the
consumer terrorist; and finally, Alexis Smith as the sexy superwoman,
Lake, and Ruby, the object of Gem's infatuation.
Tickets:
$10/$8 students, seniors, and Friends of Mobius.
For reservations
call 617-542-7416.
Mobius
Boston's Artist-Run Center
for Experimental Work in All Media
354 Congress St.
Boston, MA 02210
(near the South Station stop on the
Red Line and 2 blocks from the Children's Museum.)
phone: 617-542-7416
fax: 617-451-2910
mary@mobius.org