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Christine Suarez// Show: Mother.F*cker.
Los Angeles choreographer, Christine Suarez choreographs and performs in Mother.F*cker., a tour- de-force, dance-theater solo that tells stories of motherhood, her own and other women's. Christine's past work has been hailed "ingeniously craftedpoignant(and) hilarious" by The Los Angeles Times, "savvy" by The New York Times and "smart and stylish" by The Village Voice. With honesty and humor, she draws from her own life and from interviews with a wide range of mothers. Christine portrays the struggle to hang onto her identity as an artist while the rest of her identity is in total flux. Her words punctuate moments that range from mundane observations to profound surrenders. She traces the highs and the lows, the elation and the shame of being a new mother who cannot quite let go of her ambivalence. She talks about the duality of her experience: how she loves her new life as a parent and at the same time it is a burden, how she want to spend all her time with her son and equally desires to be forever alone to do her own thing. The tumult of her transition is expressed in a movement vocabulary that reaches for quality extremes at every turn. Her movement both devours space and rigorously spirals in on itself. To reflect the surreal nature of the experience, she employs a recurring device of an imagined hologram of the "Pregnant Me" that she talks to and dances with. The physical experience of motherhood is that of mutation. She asks, "How can I express what it is like for one body to embody an Old Body and a New Body, a Pregnant Body and a Post-Partum Wrecked Body, a Solitary Body and an Inhabited Body?" Christine's aim is to channel a mix of Sandra Bernhardt and Pina Bausch in order to reveal a personal narrative that fearlessly sheds light on the absurd and poetic life of a mother.
*WARNING: Adult themes and language
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LocationMotion at the Mill (View)
131 Front Street Suite E
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States
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| Minimum Age: 17 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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