POWERSUITS
Friday, November 14 at 7:00pm
Tickets: $15-$40 sliding scale, ticket link coming soon!
Powersuits, created and performed by Michole Biancosino and Lida Winfield, is a dance theater performance with a little bit of clowning. Through abstract physicality Michole and Lida share a funny and disturbing look at middle aged women through a modern feministic lens. The viewer can expect interesting songs from the 80s, an experience of salad dining, and a foray into office culture and sexuality.
“….fantastic duet that critiques normative gender roles and performances with exaggerated costumes and gestures, depicting stereotypes of authority and beauty as absurd. In tandem, their piece calls out the alienation that comes from capitalist grind culture.” —Catharine Wright
Lida Winfield is an innovative and accomplished dancer, choreographer, spoken word artist and educator; who has created original work merging storytelling, dance and visual art. As an artist, educator and keynote presenter, she has performed and taught nationally and internationally in traditional and non-traditional environments from Bates Dance Festival to MindMingle in Malviya Nagar, New Delhi. Lida studied at The School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in 2011 earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in VT, with a focus on the transformative power of the expressive arts. Lida is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Middlebury College.
Michole Biancosino is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of Project Y Theatre Company, where she has developed and directed new work in Washington, D.C., New York City and internationally over the past 25 years. With Project Y, she has led various professional productions, as producer, director, creator and writer. Her most recent ventures in digital theatre-making and hybrid theatre can be seen at tinybarntheatre.com. She currently performs Lia Romeo’s Yoga With Jillian and is a producer of Project Y’s yearly Women in Theatre Festival. Michole holds an MFA in Directing from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Middlebury College.