Dance and video artist Jillian Peña was awarded the Prix Jardin d'Europe Jury Award at the recent ImPulsTanz 2014 festival. With her latest work Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack, Peña takes inspiration from ballet, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and Marxism, in this epic dance drama about artful seduction, role changes, and exclusion.

The audience, cast as outsiders, catches a glimpse into the private world and relationship patterns of three friends, played by dancers Alexandra Albrecht,Andrew Champlin, and Kyli Kleven as they negotiate their relationships to themselves and each other, navigating desire, kinship, conflict, and compromise.

Set and Video by Jillian Peña and Chris Sellers
With music by Krzysztof Komeda, The Valerie Project, Fripp & Eno
Lighting by Kathy Kaufmann (Original Lighting by Joe Levasseur)
Costume Design by Reid Bartelme
Costumes Created by Reid Bartelme with Stephanie Yarger and Jillian Maslow.

No late seating. Please arrive on time!

Peña will be part of our Conversation Without Walls on October 11!