Performance Art
Secret Joy, 2019
Secret Joy is the second in a quartet of performances engaging the desire for retribution played out in the transformations of monumental sculptural figures. Gregory Barnett and Dani O'Terry play Rea and Bea, actors in a parallel world whose attempts at “revolutionary theater” are sabotaged by the pleasure they take in performing as victims and victors. Research for this project was facilitated by the Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship. Photos by Julie Weitz and Ian Byers Gamber
Punishment’s Place, 2018
Punishment’s Place engaged the greek mythological origins of punitive logic in a sculptural tableau of Prometheus Bound. Inspired by the 2017 toppling of bronze confederate soldier statues in Durham North Carolina, “Punishment’s Place” dramatizes the act of tearing something down as both painful and a moment for renewed energy.
Performed by Kathleen Keogh, Peter Tomka and Oscar Alvarez
Cowboy, 2018
Cartoonish personifications of dance and theater confront one another. Dance's green witch and theater's blue clown reflect, oppose, subsume and dominate one another while serving as containers for collaborators Dorothy Dubrule and Brian Getnick to play with archetypes and modes of meaning-making Cowboy featured a live score by Erin Schneider on accordion and synthesizer as well as costumes by Francesca Nava.
Moonchops, 2016
Solo. Drawing upon a story about a rural town and its inhabitants both living and dead, I perform a succession of characters living in a moonlit forest beneath the town theater.
The Memories Themselves, 2012-2016. Performance documentation:︎︎︎
Performance Art, Album and Video project with Claire Cronin, Ezra Buchla, Bryatt Bryant, Nathan Bockelman and Corey Fogel performing in a deconstructed body which finds its way back together through sung memories.
The Memories Themselves, Music VIdeos Playlist here ︎︎︎
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A suite of five videos directed by myself, filmed by Jeremy Oversier, Performed by Emily Lucid and Andrew Diego.
One Good Spell, 2012 performance documentation ︎︎︎
A performance at Honor Fraser Gallery and featuring stage magician Martin Gorman, Artist Bryatt Bryant, Dancers Anna B. Scott, Gabriela London, Andrew Lush, with music by Oh Fix Lemons ( Christopher K.Wilde, Greg Garcia, Alex Stevans, John Weldy, and Joe Dostal ). Gorman performs slights of hand; subtracting coins from the air, miraculous knot cutting, rings joined, close up prestigitation before packing up his suitacase and rolling into the next room. Unsettling the magician’s tricks, costumed dancers await him, improvising rituals, pagentry, sound and otherwise embodying the unsubtle spirits of play and unknowing.
Montage of performances ︎︎︎
The Ballet are 6 costumes that were worked continually from 2007 - 2012 and performed in collaboration with musicians, artists and dancers. Performances aped the melodratic“high stakes” drama of a ballet troupe with an ad-hoc formalism and staged within in LA’s queer night clubs.
A suite of five videos directed by myself, filmed by Jeremy Oversier, Performed by Emily Lucid and Andrew Diego.
