THE MARTHAODYSSEY

Enter the Marthaverse

image design: Broderick Shoemaker (@shoemakerstudios) photo: Miranda Meyer

Saturday, February 3rd 7:30pm

The Space Upstairs 214 N Lexington Street Pittsburgh, PA 15208

Too little importance has been attached to the use of this word “multiplicity.”

–Gilles Deleuze, Bergonism, 1991

and we do need queer ontologies within dance, because so often we are told to not do queer in dance…and yes, we still need the doing to confirm the being.

–thomas f. defrantz, “Queer Dance in Three Acts” 2017

THE MARTHAODYSSEY

Conceived and Performed by: Jesse Factor

Sound Editing and Remixes: Andy Hasenpflug

Costumes: Julianna Waechter, Jesse Factor, Tony Allgeier

Wig Design: Travis Klingler, Aurora Borealis

Mise en Scene: Exclusive Isamu Fauxguchi Designs fabricated by Edward Theatricals

Technical Support Provided by the Space Upstairs

Madonna, Martha Graham, and Calvin Klein NYC City Center 1990.

Enter the Marthaverse

Opening

Expres(specter) Yourself

(pause - 5 minutes)

Night(club) Journey

Mother of the House

(pause - 5 minutes)

Open your Lamentation

Acts of Light

Special Thanks

Becky and Terry Factor

Pearlann Porter and John Lambert

Point Park University Department of Dance

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance

House of Marthaodyssey Advisory Board

Judith Leifer-Benz

Chuan Xi Xie

Kim Jones

Donald Shorter

Lindsay Viatori

Jason McDole

Silky Shoemaker

@jessefactor

@thespaceupstairs

MARTHA-oDyssey

A play on the words “odyssey” and “Martha”, this ongoing series builds imagined combinations of archival movement and themes in the canon of Martha Graham with popular music and takes delight in the dissonant intersections of these worlds.