Why So Serious?
Right Hand Woman | Jocelyn Mah
In this “serious contemporary dance solo” gone wrong, performer Jocelyn doesn’t realize that the audience can hear her every (doubtful and self-deprecating) thought. Desperate to fit in with other contemporary dance artists, Jocelyn performs her well-rehearsed dance sequences - that is, until her bloody tampon falls out unexpectedly onstage. To make matters worse, her giant tampon (puppet), Tony Tamponi, is a sentient, bigoted misogynist. Drama ensues.
Right Hand Woman is Mah’s comical feminist battle cry, bringing self-awareness and humour to contemporary dance clichés, embracing interdisciplinary narrative, and shining a spotlight on the effects of misogyny on women-identifying artists.
Audience symptoms may include hysterical laughter, disgust towards the patriarchy, and for a select few, googling “What the hell is an IUD??”
Content Warning: Topics of birth, death and menstruation, expletives.
Credits:
- Creator and Performer - Jocelyn Mah
- Dramaturg - Linnea Swan
- Voiceover - Tia Kushniruk, Jocelyn Mah, Juanita Dawn and Mary Lou Ditta
- Puppet design and construction - Hannah Fisher
- Puppet design and construction - Juanita Dawn of Long Grass Studio
- Outside Eye and Project Support - Ezgi Türker
- Project Support - Mary Lou Ditta
Cat Lady | Linnea Swan
Cat Lady
(Or ‘confessions of a menopausal showgirl’)
There will be sequins and fur.
There will be laughter and perhaps a few tears.
And there will be dancing. Quite a lot of it in fact.
WDNC (look it up) indeed!
in hand 2.1 | Jo Dickau-Duguay
A curious entity’s exploration of a new space within a frame of mild and comedic ventriloqui.
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