The Gay Science (titled after Nietzsche's nihilist text) is a work of dance-theater exploring the malleability of self in all its uncanny, mediated, 21st-century iterations. This work embraces puppet aesthetics in order to explore these themes in an analog world of 2-D limbs.
Puppets and Direction by Anna Lublina
Choreography by Elena Rose Light
Music Composed by Lilly Kaplan
Performed by Julia Cavagna & José Rivera Jr.
PAST PERFORMANCE
April 5, 2019: CPR Spring Movement Festival
October 4-5: The Tank Theater (New York, NY) as a part of Puppet Playlist
Photos and Video courtesy of Sinking Ship Productions & Kathryn Butler Photography