Womb Creature: With the howl of an endless line of women in her bloodline, she pushes into the world. She has teeth, claws. She moves free of borders. Her being is vast, echoing forward in space and backward in time to the beginning seed of humanity. She is the mucky root, primordial mud, the voice singing over lost and stolen bones. Performed by Roberta Samet, Dr. Angela Fatou Gittens, Natalia Munoz, Heather Robles, Cecilia Mitchell, and Mireicy Aquino, Womb Creature is a sonic dance experience of stories screaming to be let out.
Rapunzel Rants springs from the fairy tale of the same name; only now she's an older woman with memory loss; trapped by a witch, flanked by flying fairies, and a psychiatrist who leans Spanish. Rapunzel is in two worlds of aloneness; the 'super-connected disconnect' of now and the literal isolation of way back; when rebellious women were silenced in towers, nunneries, and worse.
Is it internalized ageism that keeps her in the tower? Society? Or the witch? Because the locks have rusted open...so what keeps her there? She dances when the brain fog takes hold. "What’s that word...?", she asks, as if dancing will help her remember. Choreographed, written and performed by Alice Klugherz assisted by Pedro J. Rosado. The fairy is danced by Emily Vetsch. The sound design is by Allan D. Hunter with music by Jack White, The Goblins, Frank Sinatra and samplings of Bob Cobert, Bernard Herrmann, George Dunning.