Beth Gill makes her Fisher Center debut with this commissioned piece, an intimate, surrealist work that built on her acclaimed formalist choreography, while forging a new theatrical approach.
Her LAB residency focused on re-conceiving the piece (originally made in response to the architecture of the Chocolate Factory Theater (in Queens) for a black box theater, preparing the work for a continued life in other venues.Gill creates an intimate, surrealist space building on the formalism of her past several works (Electric Midwife, New Work for the Desert), while forging new psychologically driven terrain through explorations of role, the gathering and layering of meaning and being, and ultimately, disappearance.
Gill has been making contemporary dance and performance in New York City since 2005 and has been commissioned by New York Live Arts, Chocolate Factory Theater, the Kitchen, and Dance Theater Workshop. Her body of work examines issues within the fields of contemporary dance and performance studies through a focused exploration of aesthetics and perception.
