Roping Me-You In
Featuring LEIMAY Fellows and Guest Artists
Thea Little
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2021: OUTSIGHT
Thea embarks on a new chapter of monologue as abstract art and what long-time collaborator, Dot Armstrong, names “Feng Shui Comedy” as Thea entertains the audience with aesthetic and harmonious comedy using a red rope as a prop and means for committed tasks that suggest psychological, spiritual and emotional metaphors that help Thea to unlearn learned-social-behavior.
Documentation
![Thea Little [Archive]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Presenting-Series/OUTSIGHT/2021/Thea-Little-Archive/i-JKc9Hd9/0/KHQXkxHwfX7dmVngnd7jnh4GTsNsK2WJDbVVJpvGg/Th/DPH.PRG.2021.7000.4.4-Th.jpg)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kHS-LF9Q-_Y9b4W4XQIoK3ryFh9EH7jN/view
This is a performance that begins with Thea Little’s spontaneous speech to the audience that is “subtle, hilarious and visually captivating” as quoted by artist Marisa Clementi. As Thea thinks of
witty, candid and dreamy things to say that address and engage the audience, she ties herself up, as in a corset, with a long red rope as she says things like “Am I roping you in?” and reveals one of her past-lives learning how to tie advanced knots in sailing school. Thea’s monologue becomes abstract art in itself. This is the first part of the piece which lasts for roughly 25 minutes. Thea’s research is to combine her passion for comedy and feng shui knowledge with performance using past and present movement+vocals systems that circulate in her bloodstream.
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2021.7000.4Year Created
2021Date Recorded
20210904Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Garden174 Suffolk St, NYC
Created and Performed by Thea Little
Costume by Nicole Lane Fulmer
Thea Little grew up in New York City dancing as a child with NYCB and continued to learn Modern and Contemporary techniques to find her sweet spot of Interdisciplinary Dance and Music. She holds MFA and BA degrees in Dance from Hollins University and Columbia University. Singing and dancing in a 2013-2015 production with Panoply Lab and Lindsey Drury heavily influenced her work as does other
performance art, experimental sound and opera, humor, healing and satire. Having studied classical piano for 10 years, she is a self-taught composer and she has composed many times for LEIMAY and was Music Director for Shen Wei Dance Arts many years ago. Little has performed more than 50 of her sound scores in the U.S. and Europe and she often composes vocal music for her dance collaborators to sing.
Her multi-disciplinary group and solo work has been presented at a variety of different venues such as WUK in Vienna, The Traveling Trolley in Kingston, NY, the NYU Music Department, Asia Society, National Sawdust, The Hudson Eye in Hudson, NY and AUNTS hosted by The Chocolate Factory Theater. Thea is proud to be on the Advisory Board of New Dance Alliance and to be in her fourth year as part of (IIAC) International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium and (MAL) Moving Arts Lab organized by Peter Sciscioli every summer with the generous support of Earthdance.
@thelittleperformance
Photos by Shige Moriya
OUTSIGHT is presented in partnership with New York Restoration Project and and Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company/SHARING THE STAGE.
LEIMAY works and programs are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Dance/NYC, Indie Space, and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and many generous contributions from individual donors.
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya Artistic and General Co-Directors
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