The title A MY NAME IS… refers to an ABC rhyming game which trains children to build their skills in coordinating physical and verbal tasks.
The New York based choreographer Stefanie Nelson employs a similar rhythmic progression as the main structural axis of her piece. Reminiscent of the way through which the language is acquired and then retrogrades through aging, she translates her experience with a family member’s dementia into an intricately layered multidisciplinary piece.
Increasingly organized phrases peak and subsequently dissolve into disorientation – a visual metaphor for memory loss. Nelson makes ample use of apple imagery as a loaded cultural reference evoking the loss of beauty and/or innocence, passage of time, gravity, and decay.
The special advisor for the project is David Shenk, a bestselling author of The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic.
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A My Name Is....
First Preview: Dec 6, 2017
Opening Date: Dec 7, 2017
Closing Date: Dec 10, 2017
Running Time: 01:20
Playing @
Theaterlab
357 West 36th St, New York City, NY 10018
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
Performance Schedule
THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 3 PM
Music
- Jonah Kreitner & Sahand Rahbar
Choreography
- Stefanie Nelson
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Maximum capacity: 60 seats
