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Posted by admin on February 28, 2010
PS 122 and COIL Festival, NYC
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Emily Johnson, Morgan Thorson, and Karen Sherman, two Brazilian Jiu Jitsu wrestlers, and 1000 marshmallows. Featuring the choreography of Emily Johnson.
"Anna Kiraly's set design performs a smart role of thinking about how memory performs trickster roles."
"Choreographer Emily Johnson creates some fascinating moves, including a feline sequence in which the dancers use odd prosthetic limbs to sweep the floor, and designer Anna Kiraly transforms the so-familiar space, surprising us with magically appearing Mondrian rectangles."