ABOUT

Optimistic Voices is a Postmodern dance musical about trauma, beauty, wanting to shine, motherhood, sex, compulsion, war... uncomfortable arousal. There will be a lot of singing and dancing intertwined with my ever evolving conversation around the demand of "aesthetic" and its pernicious need to either be high or low. The work is actively refining and lamenting this binary and its uneasy hold on me and the work. Improvisation is an interceptor or mediator of this nagging debate.....it plucks away at intuition, instinct and the role of organization; how we act on choice making and move into crafting without unnecessarily crushing potential.

For more information on Optimistic Voices, including availability for touring and curation, please email jfmdances@gmail.com.

CREDITS

Choreographed, Written, and Directed: Juliana F. May
Performers: Justin Faircloth, Wendell Gray, Lucy Kaminsky, Gwendolyn Knapp, Kayvon Pourazar and Anh Vo
Music Composition: Clara Hunter Latham
Costumes: Mariana Valencia
Lighting: Chloe Z. Brown
Dramaturgy: Hilary Clark, Iris McCloughan, Matt Shalzi
Creative Producer: Shana Crawford
Development Manager: Amanda Hameline
Project Management: Miranda Brown

Optimistic Voices is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.