Project by Marianna Ellenberg
Movement by Stacy Grossfield
Music by Brian Chase
Featuring: Hannah Applebaum, Georgia Kate Cohen, Maxwell Cosmo Cramer, Alexandra Tatarsky, Ella Dawn W-S and Ema Zivkovic
Art: Sophie Stone
Costumes: Raluca Vlad
In Mikvah Grrlz a series of movements meditate upon the codes of female Jewish ritual dress, prayer and sexuality. Choreographed movement and collaged live analog/electronic sounds evoke the clash between the closed environment of a teenage girl’s Orthodox Jewish day school and the subcultural worlds of DIY squatter culture and feminist activism that hover beyond its walls. The iconoclastic material is drawn from hebraic liturgies, Riot Grrl anthems, Orthodox nursery rhymes, and the diaristic writings of Simone Weil and Andrea Dworkin.
Georgia Kate Cohen, Hannah Applebaum and Ella Dawn W-S perform as Yeshiva girls run amok in this avant garde rock opera. Sounds created by drummer and sound artist Brian Chase. Featuring Ema Zivkovic as the haunting Halachic Sorceress. Alexandra Tatarsky and Maxwell Cosmo Cramer as Simone Weill and Georges Bataille.
Choreography and Co-direction by Stacy Grossfield. Featuring original artworks by Sophie Stone and Styling by Raluca Vlad.