Description
Originally part of a 1986 evening-length work co-directed by Patricia Pelletier, Flight/Fight Dance is a revised, developed dance that explores a family pyschosexual dynamic. The dance includes an extraordinary set and costume design.
Production
Choreography: Jan Bartoszek
Costume Consultant: Caryn Weglarz
Set Design: Wilhelm Hahn
Lighting Design: Daedalus
Cast
Shannon Raglin, Michael McStraw, Maria Dicinto
Performance(s)
March 14-16, 1991
Dance Center of Columbia College
Chicago
Here, [Flight/Fight] presents a dysfunctional family. An impassive mother, father and daughter, wearing flat photographic masks that cover their faces, constantly turn toward the audience, never facing each other-an eerie effect.
— Eve Becker, Chicago Tribune
…a disturbing, haunting portrait of a nuclear family…
— Sid Smith
Special Thanks
Supported, in part, by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Hedwig Dances is partially supported by grants from the Forest Fund, and by CAAP and CityArts grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs, with additional funding provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Woods Charitable Fund, Inc. Hedwig Dances is a member of Arts Bridge, a project of the Corporation for Cultural ReInvestment.
