In Meg Wolfe’s new work, New Faithful Disco, a trio of dancers—taisha paggett, Marbles Jumbo Radio, and Wolfe—perform a queer-love power-performance wrought with awkwardness and contradictions. Propelled by nature sounds and disco rhythms, bodies are the conduit: the site of intersections where dances are generated, transferred, translated, and recycled in an attempt to remix revolution. Disco opens up time, triggers fading histories, and provides a backdrop that frames who we are, now. With original music by Maria de los Angeles "Cuca" Esteves.
“Meg Wolfe is remarkable…unfettered by physical constraints” – LA Weekly
“A postmodernist jokester with a sly sense of humor.” – San Diego Union Tribune
Performance is 45 minutes and will be followed by a brief talk-back.
No late seating - strictly enforced.
New Faithful Disco is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by REDCAT, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), DiverseWorks, Z Space, and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. This performance is also supported by the NPN Performance Residency Program. For more information: www.npnweb.org.
Tour Schedule
- January 28-30, 2016: World Premiere, REDCAT, Los Angeles
- September 10 & 11, 2016: PICA/TBA Festival, Portland
- November 11 & 12, 2016: DiverseWorks, Houston
- December 2016: Live & On Stage, NPN/VAN, Austin
- March 2017: Z Space, San Francisco