PERFORMANCES: past and present
A Crime To Remember, Episode #406, "Dolly", DISCOVERY ID
"Fashions may change but murder never goes out of style. A crime to remember showcases the most compelling crimes of yester year, when secrets festered, passions ran wild and cops had nothing but shoe leather and gut instinct to catch a killer."
Dolly Oesterrich, the year is 1920, she is a doting wife, a business owner, a tragic mother, with an insatiable sex appetite, a string of lovers, a young sex slave, and a murder.
BROKER 2016
A live cinema event by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy . BROKER is a live narrative cinema event in which a high-end real estate broker confronts the fact that her clients are inexplicably disappearing.
PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER! (2014-2017)
WaxFactory is currently engaged in an in-depth investigation of the beloved theatre classic, Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull. After an extended period of dramaturgical and design research, and rehearsals of choreography and staging, we are embarked on a series of theatrical studies geared towards an extended exploration of ways in which this century-old play resonates in the 21st century America. Contemporary parallels are being drawn and incorporated in the work in order to examine our society's destructive obsession with celebrity, excess and hedonism.
No Food, No Money, No Jewels, an installation of videos, photographs, and sculptural works, by New York-based artists Simon Lee and Eve Sussman. Situated in a fictitious factory setting designed by Lee and Sussman, No Food No Money No Jewels, a film you walk through, tells a story of “inveterate power struggles that defy history, time and any sort of happy ending.” The 18-chapter film, which was commissioned in 2014 by the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, NY, portrays 12 factory workers in a gigantic multi- tiered scaffolding, bailing water and performing “a choreography” of an assembly line. The characters represent archetypes, from the Line Worker to the Master of Industry. They are also animals masterfully disguised as humans.
FAINTZ is an improvisation for a DJ, and videographer, and a performer based on Dr.Charcot’s infamous Tuesday night lectures at the Salpetriere hospital in 19th-century Paris. A neurologist with a keen interest in hysteria and hypnosis, Charcot held his now legendary lectures at the hospital, during which he trotted out “hysterical” female patients to perform their symptoms for a crowded amphitheater of men. Drawing parallels between Charcot, the overwhelming role of the media technology in our contemporary culture and the live, raw neurosis of being a stage performer, FAINTZ endeavors to take a close look at what happens when one gets out of one’s own way and confronts the reality of what was created, exposed, deconstructed and uprooted.
416 MINUTES, is a cinematic collaboration with artists from Japan and Eastern Europe, and inspired by the imagination of Haruki Murakami. In the waxfactory's signature multidisciplinary style, this unsettling new work shadows an actress whose escape from a film studio sets her on a trail of chance encounters during the hours of the night when things take on a particularly eerie glow
416 MINUTES, is a cinematic collaboration with artists from Japan and Eastern Europe, and inspired by the imagination of Haruki Murakami. In the waxfactory's signature multidisciplinary style, this unsettling new work shadows an actress whose escape from a film studio sets her on a trail of chance encounters during the hours of the night when things take on a particularly eerie glow
Part-multi-media installation, part-dance theatre, BLIND.NESS (Love is a four-letter word) is an in depth and daring examination of what happens when love goes terribly wrong. Directed by Ivan Talijancic and co-written with Slovenian playwright Simona Semenic, BLIND.NESS follows a powerhouse all-female cast on an emotional roller coaster ride across the dark and wildly humorous underbelly of love. BLIND.NESS brings together an exciting team of international collaborators including sublime video by Antonio Giacomin of Italy, the sleek architectural design of Minimart and the seductive sounds of electronica duo Random Logic of Slovenia. This technology infused tour de force will surely bend minds and break hearts.
FORTRESS Conceived and performed by Gillian Chadsey. Directed by Ivan Talijancic. Stepping into her fantasies and childhood dreams from the precipice of the present day, Chadsey uses stop action animation, live video feed, choreography, and storytelling to give flight to the absurd condition of being one in a city of 7 million where there are 7 more just like her.
I Am Here Beneath Myself, a dangerous woman sits coiled on the edge of her life, wracked by stagnation and doubt. A dramatized struggle about the creative process where arbitrary situations get repeated, re-enacted, and become ritualized. Confessions, fictions, quotes, gossip, and images collide as a performer on the edge of fiasco creates a comic elegy for a missing muse.
Hanjo Redux , a bi-lingual Spanish/English translation/adaptation of Yukio Mishima's Modern Noh Play of the same name directed by Kameron Steele. In it, three damaged people, scarred by their passions and tied together by fate, discover where their long, desperate and very different paths lead.