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: Dance Theater Workshop September 7, 8, 16, 17, 25, 26, 1999
LUKoSiMAD is the collaborative evening of work to be choreographed, written and performed by both Gabri Christa and Cynthia Oliver at Dance Theatre Workshop in the Fall of 1999. Exploring the topic of madness from both these Caribbean women’s perspectives (one from Curacao and the other from St. Croix), the audience experienced two half evenings of work by each artist and transitory collaborative moments which address the similarities in island mythologies and differences in individual considerations of madness. Oliver’s half is the preview of her larger evening length work SHEMAD which premiered at Performance Space 122 in 2000.
