GUTDANCE

2023

Run time: 30 minutes

GUTDANCE is a make-believe ceremony excavating memories of homespace and hurt from the body. Integrating clowning, “reverse karaoke”, facedance, soft sculpture, and an original score, this new interdisciplinary work imagines a universe built from things once trapped within. The performers turn their bodies inside-out and transform their innerwear to outerwear, playing house in this world of their own design. GUTDANCE is a flirtation of opposites: reality and fantasy, pain and healing, obvious and unseen. 

Created for Triskelion Arts Split Bill Series #41, with the support of ReMo Studios Devising Performance Residency program at the Netherland-America Foundation.

Created by Grace Yi-Li Tong and Micaela Pirzio-Biroli

Original and Live Sound by Phoebe Frances

Sculpture and Design by Micaela Pirzio-Biroli

Movement Direction by Grace Yi-Li Tong

Performance by Sydney Shu-Yu Chow, Grace Yi-Li Tong and Micaela Pirzio-Biroli