Works on video

Written, Choreographed and Performed by Cynthia Oliver
Premiered in Food For Thought Series at Danspace at St. Mark’s Church

Based on the beauty pageant research Oliver unearthed on her way to writing her 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 version performed by Leslie Cuyjet as part of Closer Than Skin.