DROP DEAD…GORGEOUS
PREMIERES OCTOBER 17.
DOWNSTAIRS @
LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATER CLUB
66 E 4TH ST
THURS & FRI @ 8PM | SAT @ 6PM | SUN @ 4PM
OCTOBER 17 - NOVEMBER 2
This multimedia dance performance explores our culture’s obsession with the one “perfect“ youthful body and the intersection of money, media, and madness that keeps us going to greater, more dangerous lengths to find happiness in the mirror. As Rogoff reached puberty, the perfect ballet body alluded her. Out of those early struggles came her lifelong choreographic approach: body scripting. In Drop Dead…Gorgeous, this approach plucks the contestants from the world of the game and returns them to paradise—their birthright, where all bodies can be experienced as sensual and worthy.
CREDITS
Tamar Rogoff: Writer, Director, & Choreographer
Rachel Stires: Company Manager
Sara Gierc: Assistant Director
Avi Fox-Rosen: Composer
Philip Trevino: Lighting Design & Stage Manager
Lianne Arnold: Video and Scenic Design
Nicole Slaven: Costume Design
Gardiner Comfort: Game Master
Shaena Kate: Contestant #1
Gerlanda Di Stefano: Contestant #2
Gina Bonati: Contestant #3
Shachar Langlev: Cinematographer for Greek Chorus Film Shoot
Emily “Emla” La Rochelle and Serazina Joy Stein: Film Shoot Coordinators
Kelly Ryan: Publicist
Harvey Wang: Photographer
CAST
Gina Bonati
Gardiner Comfort
Shaena Kate
Gerlanda Di Stefano