Spin·ster (n.)
1. A woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying
2. A single woman
3. A person whose occupation is spinning

This is a dance show exploring different facets of female independence in those who were/ are typecast as spinsters both in history and in pure fiction...How and why these characters came to be spinsters, voluntarily or circumstantially....and their varying emotional states in response.

CAST & CHARACTERS:

* MARGUERITE - Performing a more literal interpretation of Sufi spinning, to live music

* TATIANA - as Clara Barton, nicknamed "Angel of the Battlefield": the founder of the American Red Cross

* KATERINA - portraying an excerpt from Chinese mythology about the never-married goddess of compassion Guan Yin

* TARA kEARNEY - portraying a spinster whose reckless insecurities drove her lovers away

* LEE ALI - portraying a spinster with sexual addiction

* ELISSA & SINA - in a duet about a widow finding comfort in her unchangeable spinster sister

* SAYYADINIA - portraying the "Virgin Queen", Queen Elizabeth I

* SAVIYA - as a spinster longing for the child that was not to be

* DEIDRE CAVAZZI - inspired by the never-married poet Emily Dickinson

* ILANA - as the Healer of a remote Irish island

* AKASHA STARR - as French fashion designer Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel

* HEATHER COKER - as a spinster between her freedom and the loneliness that descends upon her each night

* SINA - as the Oracle at Delphi, a channel for the god Apollo, an unmarriedwoman, and above all, a performer


Friday, July 24th at 9:00pm ~ fridayspinster.eventbrite.com
Saturday, July 25th at 9:00pm ~ saturdayspinster.eventbrite.com

LOCATION
Studio A Dance
2306 Hyperion Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Tickets: $11 in advance, $20 at the door, if seating is available
Advance ticket sales will end at 3pm the day of each performance