Smearcase (2008)

created by Ursula Eagly in collaboration with the performers

starring Dean DeChiaro, Ursula Eagly, Abby Harris, Jeremy Holmes, and Keith Malone

An endless of cycle of violence portrayed in abstract movement and bad mime.  A structured improvisation based on a children’s game.  The cast includes a world champion competitive whistler (teen division), a documentary filmmaker, and Abby Harris Holmes & Jeremy Holmes as the same bloody mouthed couple that they portrayed in Garden of Earthly Delights. (25 minutes)

This piece was originally commissioned by the Bessie Schoenberg/First Light Commissioning and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop with support from Time Warner, Inc.

photograph by Gus Powell                                                                                          return...