Hurricane Diane
by Madeleine George | Directed by Michael T. Williams
Presented by Georgetown’s Theater and Performance Studies Program (April 2024)
Photographs by Chris Banks and Jessica Trementozzi (Set Designer)
““The cast’s comfort in rehearsals translates seamlessly onstage; their radiant chemistry lays fertile ground for comedy to sprout. Though Hurricane Diane is multifaceted, the show’s humor holds each of its moving parts firmly in place, ensuring nothing gets swept away in the storm. The result is a brilliant mosaic you’ll certainly want to see for yourself.””
Nellie/Nellie
Based on famed stunt-girl journalist Nellie Bly’s 1887 exposé ‘Ten Days in a Madhouse’, Nellie/Nellie is a genre-bending performance work powered by original music inspired by torch songs, turn of the century Americana, and chamber opera. Told from the perspectives of two unreliable versions of Nellie Bly competing for control of the story, Antigravity Performance Project’s creative team transforms this sensationalist, socially-minded, feminist text into a gutsy music-dance-theatre work reflecting Nellie’s inner conflict between yellow journalism and news-making for moral good. Directed by Michael T. Williams.
Originally composed/devised from 2012-2014, Antigravity is returning to the Nellie/Nellie materials in a series of summer workshops focused on music, dramaturgy, and choreography. Music, Lyrics, Orchestrations, Sound Design by Michael Costagliola. Additional Songs by Ned Riseley. Directed by Michael T. Williams.
Photos and Videos by Moti Margolin
Dad Rock
Lead Artist/Performer/Writer: Kyle Dacuyan
developmental workshops
Dad Rock was conceived as a solo performance with poems, movement, and video collage that contemplates the relationships between American masculinity, nationhood, and remote violence through the lens of "Classic” or “Dad Rock", a DJ-created radio genre that emerged on American stations nationwide in the late 80s (the genre looks nostalgically on the pop music of the late 60s-80s). Directed by Michael T. Williams
Legal Tender
Lead Artist: Kyle Dacuyan | Co-Directed by Michael T. Williams and Francesca Montanile
‘Legal Tender’ is an interdisciplinary performance work driven by live performance poems posing questions about immigration, cultural and material production, and sex through the lens of labor. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, which hit weeks before Legal Tender’s April 2020 premiere on the Main Stage at FringeArts in Philadelphia, the collaboration was adapted into a live assemblage of multi-media performance, video, and text material drawing across a yearlong collaborative devising practice, its marginalia, and postscript. Poet Kyle Dacuyan, in collaboration with Antigravity Performance Project (directors Michael T. Williams and Francesca Montanile) and artists Andalyn Young, Kate Liebman, and Michael Costagliola, presented this work in a live virtual adaptation as part of the 2020 FringeArts Festival.
Photos by Danny Bristol