Join us for dance, storytelling and genre-defying performance by Professors Amy Chavasse (Dance) and Malcolm Tulip (Theatre & Drama). Also featuring Anna Bodescu, senior Dance BFA student.

PROGRAM

Little Charlotte the Round Ray (premiered at the Disguise Festival, Northampton, MA, May 2025)

A cautionary tale, told as speculative fiction in kaleidoscopic movement, song and storytelling. It examines the desperation that can emerge from belief systems that elevate hysteria, and wishful thinking. At its core, this is a heartfelt homage to Charlotte.

Low Light (premiered at the Beijing Dance Festival, 2014)

In 1956, Rachel Carson wrote a script for the popular TV show Omnibus called Something About the Sky. She hoped to challenge the "sterile preoccupation with things artificial" and question our "alienation from our source of strength.” Our absolute and essential humanness calls out for a re-imagined vocabulary of encounters. This dance seeks to uncover how this looks and feels across an expanse of emotional latitude – the imaginary line that connects points across the surface of the earth. Geographical imagery provides a framework as the dancer moves inside a quivering, episodic narrative.

deux dogtooth (premiered at the Arthur Miller Theatre, 2017)

A duet for Tulip and Chavasse that uses misappropriation and agitprop in a tightly structured improvisation that relies on intricately timed textural layering, gestures and humor. Obliquely referencing the 2009 film, Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos, the action unfolds on and around a table, two chairs and a thick shag rug.