year: 1999
choreography: Nicole Livieratos
music: Bob Een, Gene Autry, Rufus Wainwright, Richard S. Straus, Louis Armstrong
costumes: Evan Ayotte
prop design and construction: Mark Teague
painted upholstry: Stephanie Wolfe
performers: Laney Abernethy, Courtney Adams, Saskia Benjamin, Kathleen Matuszewich
photo:
Alan Loehle
"The
show which examines the emotional changes women go through over the course
of a day, was energetic, funny and evocative.... One of Livieratos' strongest
assets is her sense of pacing. The dancers move from one inventive set
piece to the next with the fleetness of children at play, and at about
40 minutes, the piece seems just the right length. There are plenty of
rich, interesting images to occupy the mind throughout the show: three
women jump up and down in trampoline shoes while another paints her toenails
to an old Gene Autry tune; one woman turns the strange chair on its side
to produce a fan that blows the other women down; and a woman lifts a
panel out of the chair to produce a sort of target that all the dancers
take aim at with oranges. The ending is an especially strong image, with
the four women, in one of the few utterly still and contemplative moments
of the piece, engaging in the hyper-masculine, alpha-male pastime of smoking
cigars." -Andrew Alexander, Creative Loafing