A selection of major collaborations and performances directed by others.
TERMINER by Wesleigh Gates
[February 6 & 7, 2020
New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh
Somewhere in the dark, a cyborg coven is performing a ritual for the future of humankind. Using movement and historical as well as AI-generated text, they summon the Salem witch panic out of America’s colonial shadows. Featuring an intergenerational, all-queer ensemble, TERMINER shines a light on contemporary systems of power, and casts a spell of resistance and repair.
Scenic Design: Sasha Schwartz
Lighting Design: Ethan J. Hollinger
Sound Design: Aaron Landgraf
Costume Design/Assistant Director: Janine Paulson
Programmers: Nico Zevallos, Animesh Dhagat, Vinit Sarode
Dramaturg: Jules Gill-Peterson
Stage Manager: Kaylin Blaney
Performed by Rachel Lange, Moriah Ella Mason, Janine Paulson, Leif Sudorn, Windafire, and Ariel Xiu
[preview] [review]
New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh
Somewhere in the dark, a cyborg coven is performing a ritual for the future of humankind. Using movement and historical as well as AI-generated text, they summon the Salem witch panic out of America’s colonial shadows. Featuring an intergenerational, all-queer ensemble, TERMINER shines a light on contemporary systems of power, and casts a spell of resistance and repair.
Scenic Design: Sasha Schwartz
Lighting Design: Ethan J. Hollinger
Sound Design: Aaron Landgraf
Costume Design/Assistant Director: Janine Paulson
Programmers: Nico Zevallos, Animesh Dhagat, Vinit Sarode
Dramaturg: Jules Gill-Peterson
Stage Manager: Kaylin Blaney
Performed by Rachel Lange, Moriah Ella Mason, Janine Paulson, Leif Sudorn, Windafire, and Ariel Xiu
[preview] [review]
Nearest Neighbors by Wesleigh Gates and Jamison Edgar
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Oct. 2019
Performers:
Jamison Edgar, Philip Wesley Gates, Moriah Ella Mason, Trevor C. Miles, Amelia Reuss, and Khajya Thomas. Sound by Jessica Fuquay.
Can big data be queered?
Can the queer archive be data mined?
In this ongoing research and performance project, a shifting roster of queer performers undertake an embodied investigation of a growing dataset of queer histories and artifacts, sourced from queer archives around the United States and Canada. Algorithms and strategies of data collection and categorization are transformed into physical scores. Information and affect travels between archival storage and the living body.
[full performance]
Performers:
Jamison Edgar, Philip Wesley Gates, Moriah Ella Mason, Trevor C. Miles, Amelia Reuss, and Khajya Thomas. Sound by Jessica Fuquay.
Can big data be queered?
Can the queer archive be data mined?
In this ongoing research and performance project, a shifting roster of queer performers undertake an embodied investigation of a growing dataset of queer histories and artifacts, sourced from queer archives around the United States and Canada. Algorithms and strategies of data collection and categorization are transformed into physical scores. Information and affect travels between archival storage and the living body.
[full performance]
A Letter Combined From All Letters by Maree Remalia / Gigi Gatewood / Lillian Cho
New Hazlett Theater
Pittsburgh, PA
June 13–15, 2019 (premiere)
Concept Maree ReMalia, Gigi Gatewood, Lillian Cho
Director/Choreographer Maree ReMalia
Movement generation and composition the performers, Natalia Gomez, and Susan Kuo
Performers David Bernabo, Lillian Cho, Gigi Gatewood, Joseph Hall, Moriah Ella Mason, Maree ReMalia, Jil Stifel
Understudy Sarah Friedlander
Projection Design Gigi Gatewood and David Bernabo
Soundtrack Design David Bernabo
Live Music David Bernabo and Joseph Hall
Text for Performance Moriah Ella Mason
Set Design Natalia Gomez
Costume Design Emily Vallozzi
Lighting Design Forrest Trimble
[trailer] [preview] [preview]
Pittsburgh, PA
June 13–15, 2019 (premiere)
Concept Maree ReMalia, Gigi Gatewood, Lillian Cho
Director/Choreographer Maree ReMalia
Movement generation and composition the performers, Natalia Gomez, and Susan Kuo
Performers David Bernabo, Lillian Cho, Gigi Gatewood, Joseph Hall, Moriah Ella Mason, Maree ReMalia, Jil Stifel
Understudy Sarah Friedlander
Projection Design Gigi Gatewood and David Bernabo
Soundtrack Design David Bernabo
Live Music David Bernabo and Joseph Hall
Text for Performance Moriah Ella Mason
Set Design Natalia Gomez
Costume Design Emily Vallozzi
Lighting Design Forrest Trimble
[trailer] [preview] [preview]
Ubiquitous Mass of Us by Maree Remalia
[New Hazlett Theater
Pittsburgh, PA
June 14, 2014 (premiere)
Restaged for Performing Arts Series
Mahaney Center for Performing Arts
March 17-18, 2017
Middlebury, VT
The Ubiquitous Mass of Us is an interdisciplinary performance work created over three intensive rehearsal periods throughout 2013-2014. In this escalating journey, with a hint of other worldliness, we question the bounds of our identities and the way we take up space – Who are we as individuals? Who are we together? How far beyond what we conceive of ourselves can we go? What are the myriad ways in which we inhabit space? What are the visible and invisible boundaries we create? How are these questions impacted by and connected to contemporary issues in a larger context? Here, we bare the complexity of our individual and collective identities through a broad range of physicality and newly discovered expressions that explore the liminal zones and hard lines between.
Created by Maree ReMalia in collaboration with the artists and performers
Performers David Bernabo, Joseph Hall, Taylor Knight, Paul Kruse, Adil Mansoor, Moriah Ella Mason, Maree ReMalia, Jil Stifel, and Anna Thompson
Sound Design David Bernabo
Set Design Blaine Siegel
Costume Stylist Rachel Vallozzi
Lighting Design Katie Jordan
Text Gaston Bachelard, Corydan Ireland, Deborah Jowitt, Nicole Krauss, Starhawk, Elizabeth Streb
[trailer] [review] [review] [review]
THOUGHT POCKETS by Pearlann Porter / The Pillow Project
THOUGHT POCKETS are uncommon movement created in common places. Pillow Project's long-format performance concepts that happen throughout Downtown Pittsburgh. By taking modern dance into everyday pedestrian contexts, these 4-hour, extended performances are created for anyone to walk up to, over, around, pass through, or pass by.
THOUGHT POCKETS are uncommon movements, physical shapes, and unusual visual patterns unfolding in slow motion through durational-performances that speak of vulnerability, time, and the beauty of the unexpected
[website] [video] [video]
THOUGHT POCKETS are uncommon movements, physical shapes, and unusual visual patterns unfolding in slow motion through durational-performances that speak of vulnerability, time, and the beauty of the unexpected
[website] [video] [video]
Invisible Jazz Labs by Pearlann Porter
{Presented by The Pillow Project at The Space Upstairs, Pittsburgh
The Invisible Jazz Labs blend scientists with improvisational artists from The Space Upstairs in an intimate lounge setting for unique performance lectures. These informal experiments invite everyone to participate in the jazz of an idea unfolding as artists and scientists improvise together. Speakers are ‘set free’ to expound on compelling topics while interacting with mixed-medium artists sharing the space where the ‘jazz of science’ and the ‘science in jazz’ can be found.
[preview] [review] [excerpt] [full performance]
The Invisible Jazz Labs blend scientists with improvisational artists from The Space Upstairs in an intimate lounge setting for unique performance lectures. These informal experiments invite everyone to participate in the jazz of an idea unfolding as artists and scientists improvise together. Speakers are ‘set free’ to expound on compelling topics while interacting with mixed-medium artists sharing the space where the ‘jazz of science’ and the ‘science in jazz’ can be found.
[preview] [review] [excerpt] [full performance]
2084 by Pearlann Porter / The Pillow Project
Directed and Designed by Pearlann Porter
Projection Effects by Mike Cooper and Pearlann Porter
Music by Radiohead
Arranged by PJ Roduta — with Anna Thompson, Zëk Stewart, John-Michael Breen, Andrew Swackhamer, Riva Strauss, Patty Petronello, Moriah Ella Mason at The Space Upstairs
[trailer]
Projection Effects by Mike Cooper and Pearlann Porter
Music by Radiohead
Arranged by PJ Roduta — with Anna Thompson, Zëk Stewart, John-Michael Breen, Andrew Swackhamer, Riva Strauss, Patty Petronello, Moriah Ella Mason at The Space Upstairs
[trailer]
The Sea of Enmity by Maira Duarte
The Sea of Enmity is home to a crew of restless sailors, lost in the current of animosity and opposition. There is no rest, turbulent emotions abound, survival is at risk.
As part of Carolina Loyola-Garcia's Map of Love project, choreographer Maira Duarte prepared a live performance that took place under the 33rd street bridge in Pittsburgh, PA on Sunday, October 5th, 2014.
mapoflove.net
VIDEO CREDITS:
Directed and edited by Carolina Loyola-Garcia
Choreography by Maira Duarte
Director of Photography: Joe Seamans
Dancers: Taylor Knight, Anna Thompson, Ella Mason, Kimberly Clay Browder
Production Assistant: Brian Duncan
Camera:
Joe Seamans, Carolina Loyola-Garcia, and Brian Duncan
Music:
- Sleep, by Light the Knight
- Jacques Cousteau, by Hector Moro
- Szminka, by Ekkehard Ehlers & Paul Wirkus
[full performance]
As part of Carolina Loyola-Garcia's Map of Love project, choreographer Maira Duarte prepared a live performance that took place under the 33rd street bridge in Pittsburgh, PA on Sunday, October 5th, 2014.
mapoflove.net
VIDEO CREDITS:
Directed and edited by Carolina Loyola-Garcia
Choreography by Maira Duarte
Director of Photography: Joe Seamans
Dancers: Taylor Knight, Anna Thompson, Ella Mason, Kimberly Clay Browder
Production Assistant: Brian Duncan
Camera:
Joe Seamans, Carolina Loyola-Garcia, and Brian Duncan
Music:
- Sleep, by Light the Knight
- Jacques Cousteau, by Hector Moro
- Szminka, by Ekkehard Ehlers & Paul Wirkus
[full performance]