UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW
UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW
Conceived and Directed by Young Jean Lee
In Collaboration with Faye Driscoll, Morgan Gould & the Company
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In Young Jean Lee’s latest experiment, UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW, six charismatic stars of the downtown theater, dance, cabaret, and burlesque worlds come together to invite the audience on an exhilaratingly irreverent, nearly-wordless celebration of a fluid and limitless sense of identity.
Featuring
- Becca Blackwell
- World Famous *BOB*
- Hilary Clark
- Katy Pyle
- Regina Rocke
- Amelia Zirin-Brown (aka Lady Rizo)
- Dramaturgy by Mike Farry
- Video Design by Leah Gelpe
- Scenic Design by David Evans Morris
- Lighting Design by Raquel Davis
- Sound Design by Chris Giarmo and Jamie McElhinney
- Production Supervisor Sunny Stapleton
- Assistant Directors Kate Gagnon Rachel Karp and Adam Blodgett
- Produced by Aaron Rosenblum
"... one of the more moving and imaginative works I have ever seen on the American stage . . . Part of what makes it so transcendent is its delicious ability to alternate the pain of being different with a sense of humor about lives not lived among the status quo . . . Lee's universe is so emotionally complete that I yearned to be part of her utopia."
— Hilton Als, The New Yorker
"Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation . . . ['Untitled Feminist Show'] may well be her most daunting attempt to push her talent in a new direction."
— Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
"Who said the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak? Both are pretty damn fierce in director Young Jean Lee's all-female, all-nude dance suite cheekily (but purposefully) called Untitled Feminist Show. In a scant (and scantily clad) hour, Lee and her gutsy dancers try on a dizzying variety of modes and masks to shake up gender norms."
— David Cote, TimeOut New York
"[With] six fiercely funny, fully nude performers . . . all of whom are nothing short of majestic . . . This brief, joyous, mute extravaganza of dance, mime, and movement reveals is just how badly a sex-festooned and fashion-fussy culture has occluded our view of the actual, functional potential of an unadorned form."
— Scott Brown, New York Magazine
""Never mind finding a category for this work: What matters is itsgenuine charm, wholesome and subversive at the same time."
— Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post
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PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN (World Premiere)
January 5-7, 2012
Baryshnikov Arts Center
Co-Presented by Performance Space 122 as part of the 2012 COIL Festival
New York, NY (New York Premiere)
January 12- February 4, 2012
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UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW was initially developed in residency at the New Museum in NYC in December 2010. The show continued its development at Mount Tremper Arts in Mount Tremper, NY in August 2011, Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC in September 2011 and then was in residence at The Park Avenue Armory in NYC through its premiere in January 2012. UFS was originally commissioned by the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), and is a co-production of the Walker, Steirischer Herbst (Graz), Kunstenfestivaldesartes (Brussels), the Spalding Gray Award (PS122 New York, Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, On the Boards Seattle), and Young Jean Lee's Theater Company. The project was also the recipient of the 2012 Spalding Gray Award. Originally developed in association with Caleb Hammons. Funding support provided by the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the MAP/Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Creative Explorations Fund, The Fox/Samuels Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
