I’ll be performing in Third Rail Projects’ Then She Fell through the end of September.

April 14, 23, 26 and 30

May 5, 7-12, 19, 22-26, and 28

June 8, 18-22, 25, 27 and 30

July 18-21, 23 and 24

August 20-22 and 28-31

September 1, 10, 12, 14 and 28-29

Off to Hartford Stage for the world premiere of Big Dance Theater’s Man in a Case, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov.  See you in 6 weeks!

In rehearsal with Chris Giarmo, Tei Blow and Mikhail Baryshnikov (photo by Leslie Lyons)

I’m incredibly grateful to have worked with such an illustrious group of artists in 2012:

Abigail Levine
Amber Sloan
Baryshnikov Productions
Big Dance Theater (Annie-B Parson/Paul Lazar)
Christopher Williams
David Gordon
David Parker
Dean Moss
Doug Elkins
Faye Driscoll
John-Mark Owen
Lauren Petty/Shaun Irons
Michou Szabo
OtherShore/Jodi Melnick
Phantom Limb Company (Jessica Grindstaff/Erik Sanko)
Steven Reker

Thank you all for a spectacular year!

And thank you to Sarah Maxfield (One-Shot, In and Out of Uniform/Museum of Art and Design, Late-Nite Cabaret @ FLICFest/Irondale Center), TOPAZ ARTS, 92Y Fridays at Noon, and Movement Research at the Judson Church for supporting the creation and development of my own work.

Here’s to a terrific 2013.

XOXOXO

Faye Driscoll: You’re Me

January 18, 2013 – January 20, 2013
Abrons Arts Center Playhouse
Part of American Realness 2013

TICKETS: $20

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Faye Driscoll’s You’re Me considers how we are constantly made-up and un-done by each other. In this evening-length duet, Driscoll probes and obfuscates the inescapable nature of relationship as the contemporary, archetypal, fantastical, and personal crash into each other, bending and warping in one shrug, quarrel, or reframing of a scene. Imbued with the adrenaline of potentially dire consequences, You’re Me is a moving portrait of the impossible struggle to unhinge the palindromic loop of self and other.

With the constraint of just two performers on stage the whole time, Driscoll and performer Aaron Mattocks fight a sweaty, evocative, disturbing, and deeply funny battle with the dualism they face; male/female, director/performer, and performer/audience. They ask: What do you see when you see us on stage? How does our very desire to be more than we are transform us? How do our fantasies of ourselves and of each other create new possibilities for being, and yet give birth to friction, failure, and loss? You’re Me is a kind of tango with chaos and recurrence in which the performers attempt to simultaneously control and destroy the frame through which they are seen — all the while asking, “Am I getting it right?”

Performance dates:
Friday, January 18 | 7 pm
Saturday, January 19 | 9 pm
Sunday, January 20 | 4 pm

Run time: 1 hour and 20 minutes

Photo by Steven Schreiber

Over the next 90 minutes, Faye Driscoll and the remarkable, fluent Aaron Mattocks, who had stepped into a role created by Jesse Zaritt and reportedly learned the role on two-week’s notice, stepped, bounced, shrieked, and scrabbled through a series of 20 to 30-count episodes, much of it having to do with orality. She ate out of the palm of his hand. He whimpered, mouth open, like a baby bird, while she, googly eyed, fed him morsels from her mouth. He spit stones. Whole oranges got stuffed into their costumes to indicate boobs, knobby knees, deformed shoulder joints and—you knew it had to happen—scratchable, hanging balls. There was a Halloween-worthy, faux knife murder where a tangle of red yarn became viscera enjoyed by a glazed-eye zombie.

At one point, the duo pounced on a cache of costume-fixings, Driscoll riding the back of Mattock’s neck like a hobbyhorse. Wigs, pink netting, and scarves flew through the air as she flashed through a snapshot-like series of instant characters, a bargain basement Cindy Sherman. When the two performers pulled out spray cans and started painting themselves and each other in day-glow colors, you felt they’ve been waiting for permission to do this their entire adult lives.

Debra Cash, The Arts Fuse

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