lavinia roberts

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Dance & Performance Art

Dance

Directed by Lavinia Roberts

Choreography by Alexandra Amirov

Masks by Lavinia Roberts

Puppetry by Justin Perkins

Cast:

Amaris Dance Company

Curiouser and Curiouser is an imaginative piece of physical theatre inspired from 1920s German Expressionist silent horror films and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The experience of being unsettled in Wonderland is explored using masks, puppetry, projections, dance, and music. The world is supported by a piano accompaniment, like 1920s silent films. The movement vocabulary of 1920s cinema will be explored as well. The world is highly stylized, distorted, beautiful, heightened, and unsettling.

Saturday, November 15, 2014

10:00 PM

 

Dixon Place

161A Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002

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Photos by Cecilia Roberts

Photographs Copyright Cecilia Roberts 2014

White Rabbit

Performance Art

Treasures

“Treasures,” was a devised performance piece incorporating mask and puppetry work. I constructed the costume and puppets from found materials.  A post apocalyptic bum, with a strange collection of puppets fashioned after natural objects that no longer exist, mourns the loss of nature.  The vocal work and movement vocabulary was inspired from the sounds and movements of insects.

June 2013 “Bushwick Open Studios: Hybrid Performance Art Showcase,” Brooklyn Fireproof, NYC

June 2012 “And Your Very Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem,” Arch Production & Design, NYC

May 2012 “The Cave,” Frontrunner Gallery, NYC

 

Drunk Girls

Performed site-specifically at the bar at Dixon Place. “Drunk Girls” explores the ritual of getting drunk. What are the gender politics of drinking culture? Why do we feel the need to get drunk?

Masks by Corinne Beardsley

Directed/Devised by Lavinia Roberts

Jan. 2013 “Drunk Girls,” Dixon Place, Manhattan

June 2012 “Transformation: Holding On/Letting Go,” Diana H. Jones Center, Brooklyn

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A Big Bang

“A Big Bang,” explores gendered movement vocabulary and gender constructions using quirky vaudeville aesthetics.

Sept. 2013 “Bad Theatre Festival,” The Tank, Manhattan

June 2013 “Potion Collective Featured Artist,” Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn

June 2013 “Bindlestiff Open Variety Show,” Dixon Place, Manhattan

A Big Bang

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