Photo Credit: Dan Davidson/OPHOTO.
YWCA OF CINCINNATI
Thursday, May 28 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, May 30 at 3:15 PM
Monday, June 1 at 7:00 PM
Tuesday, June 2 at 7:00 PM
Friday, June 5 at 7:00 PM
Running time: 50 min.
Body Language II: PHYS ED.
True Body Project
Cincinnati, OH.
PREVIOUS FRINGES
Body Language: A RADICAL TRUTH (2008)
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Cincy Fringe audience favorite returns with a community collaboration featuring actors and non-actors, teens and adults, in an exploration of how we come to view our bodies in the dreaded landscape of gym class. Writer Stacy Sims, actor Julianna Bloodglood, dancer/choreographer Heather Britt and dozens more PHYS. ED. collaborators listened to stories from real people in the community to create this high-energy performance work.
Did you get picked first or last? Could you climb the rope or run the mile? Did you skip class entirely, or was it your favorite class of the day? PHYS. ED. will bring it all back. And make you sweat. Fresh from a NY performance at the Brooklyn Museum, the True Body Project is a Cincinnati-based non-profit organization.
ARTIST/COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
True Body Project returns to the Cincy Fringe with another community-based, theatrical performance. This year, TBP invited men and boys to join women and girls to recall how our experiences in a school gymnasium helped shape our body consciousness. So think dodge ball. Think locker rooms. Think school dances. Think humiliation, and yearning and first love.
TBP most recently worked with girls and women in the New York area to create site-specific performance pieces for the Brooklyn Museum on Mother's Day.
For our TBP theatrical works, a team of collaborators lead community based workshops where we engage girls/women/men/boys in creative writing and movement exercises designed to understand how we remember seminal moments about our body - both in our mind's and our body's memory. Then we take these texts and experiences and work together to craft a poetic, narrative work that represents our collective experience of the history of our minds and bodies. Visit www.truebodyproject.org.
'AND THE FRINGIEST PART IS ...'
The most exciting thing about our show is that everyone who participates has an equal voice in creating the work. We meet with hundreds of youth and adults and use their experiences to craft the text of our piece. And this year, by bringing boys and men into the process, we hope to truly represent our community's collective voice on body image with our funny, sad, sweaty and truthful look at the scrawny, nervous kid in all of us.