Description: Maura Donohue / In Mixed Company - Contemporary New York City Choreographer, Dance Educator, Modern Dancer
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Maura Nguyen Donohue inmixedcompany with Slant Performance Group presents "strictly a female female," a mashup of Asian themed musicals/opera and (mostly) 80s rock. Donohue and, musical collaborators, Richard Ebihara & Perry Yung have recombined elements from Flower Drum Song, South Pacific, the King and I, and Madame Butterfly with 80s anthem rock from the likes of Journey, Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, and Guns N’Roses to create a ... truly absurd derivative mesh of the original sources. strictly a female fema
Donohue and Yung have collaborated previously on In Mixed Company’s “Lotus Blossom Itch” and “Enemy/Territory” at Dance Theater Workshop and “The Legend of the Pearl” at La Mama/Umbria. For Jet Stream they gathered their regular collaborators from Slant Performance Group (Richard Ebihara), In Mixed Company (Peggy Cheng & Brian Nishii) and guests Julian Barnett and Abby Chan to create a collaborative tale that dips into personal tales of each artist’s name.
“Rip It Open”, an exhaustive and athletic examination of each performer’s relationship to violence. This series of solos and duets features choreography by Donohue, lighting design by Frank DenDanto III, costume design by Anh Bui, video and sound design by Brian Nishii, with performances by Donohue, Peggy Cheng, Nancy Ellis, and Nishii.