Photo by Steven Schreiber

ABOUT

Gutter Gate splices, blends, and dilutes sections to deconstruct notions of craft and composition, ultimately pruning back a certain level of glossiness. Movement material and spatial structures are developed through a rigorous process of layering and culling units of time and tone. Formal concerns are challenged to convey the necessity of abstraction in communicating the relationship between feeling and form.

Premiered at New York Live Arts

For more information on “Gutter Gate,” including availability for touring and presentations, please email jfmdances@gmail.com. Tech rider and full length video available upon request.

CREDITS

Choreography and Direction: Juliana F. May
Performers: Benjamin Asriel, Madeline Best, Anna Carapetyan, Eleanor Smith, and Maggie Thom
Original Music: Chris Seeds
Lighting Design: Chloe Z. Brown

“Gutter Gate” was made possible through a Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

PRESS

What to Expect When Fairy Tales and Reality Are Just as Strange?
Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times
"In much of Ms. May’s choreography, struggle is visible: positions are fought for rather than effortlessly achieved, and it’s not necessarily pretty...“Gutter Gate” stays in the mind, a puzzle you’d like to have a crack at again."