IN THE PROFESSIONAL ARENALessons In Female Etiquette
Written, Choreographed, and Performed by Cynthia Oliver
Premiered in Food For Thought Series at Danspace at St. Mark’s Church (New York, NY), 2005
Based on the beauty pageant research I unearthed on my way to writing my dissertation “Queen of the Virgins: Beauty Pageants the Popular Women’s Theatre of the U.S. Virgin Islands,” Lessons in Female Etiquette is a seven-minute piece where the details of proper etiquette is the aim of this lone cigarette-smoking, slightly unkempt woman whose more base tendencies seem to always slip out.
This is a version of Lessons performed by Leslie Cuyjet, during our Closer Than Skin performance in 2006 at Aaron Davis Hall. I adapted the work on Leslie for that production from its original that I performed at Danspace the year before.
This is the original version of me doing this work at Danspace St. Marks Church in 2005.
Tom Brazil, Danspace at St. Marks Food For Thought, 2005.
Tom Brazil, Danspace at St. Marks Food For Thought, 2005.