Ann Liv Young's creations are essentially a reflection of her life, inspired by her experiences with her dancers, family, collaborators and passerby. The ultra-personal becomes the material she molds for performance. Young's mission is to create work that is honest in its inception, creation and execution. Her work combines text, music and choreography to build scenes that set up ideas, images and relationships and then destroy them.
Ann Liv Young brings her uncompromising vision of Sophocles’ Elektra to the stage in her first American commission since 2008. Known for creating work that’s “brilliant at one moment, perverse the next” (The New York Times), Young re-mixes Greek ritual in her incomparable style by combining passages from three distinct translations. Surrounded by a family steeped in murder, revenge and deception, Ann Liv Young’s Elektra is crazed, authentic, honest, compassionate, steadfast and tragic - a young woman struggling for footing in a shifting, murky world, which she navigates with imperfect tools. Exploring the tipping point between following the social flow, and being an engaged, responsible and decisive agent, Elektra wants everyone to question, to pay attention, let go of the yoke of social norms and act as an engaged individual.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
