IN THE PROFESSIONAL ARENALUKoSiMAD
Written and Choreographed by Cynthia Oliver
Performed by Cynthia Oliver, Rhetta Aleong, Cynthia Bueschel, Renee Redding-Jones, and Melissa Wynn
Music by Straylight featuring Jason Finkelman, Geoff Gersh, and Charles Cohen
Premiered at Dance Theater Workshop (New York, NY), 1999
LUKoSiMAD is the collaborative evening of work to be choreographed, written and performed by both Gabri Christa and myself at Dance Theatre Workshop in the Fall of 1999. Exploring the topic of madness from both our Caribbean women’s perspectives (Gabri from Curacao and mine from St. Croix), the audience experienced two half evenings of work by each of us and transitory collaborative moments which address the similarities in island mythologies and differences in individual considerations of madness. My half is the preview of the larger evening length work SHEMAD which premiered at Performance Space 122 in 2000.
