Catherine directing Elena Copuzeanu, Georgiana Dobre, Bogdan Drăgănescu in Fall of the Rebel Angels #9
Zona D Studio, Bucharest Romania
photo by: Cosmin Manolescu

excerpt from:

Fall of the Rebel Angels #8: Vespers
Performed: May 30, 2014

Starring: Rosalie Elkinton, Niko Tsocanos, Saori Tsukada, Mei Yamanaka
Concept & Direction: Catherine Galasso
Music Composed & Performed Live by: Adam Bach and Ellery Royston
Visual Consultant & Mask Maker: Ben Finer
Producer and Dramaturg: Satya Stainton
Co-Producer: Braden King


Read more about Fall of the Rebel Angels
Watch video excerpts from previous studies

The full 50-minute work was created for a pre-Civil War 4-story wood-frame house in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 

Make an evening-length show in an empty 4-story house? Do it in the next 3 weeks on a shoe-string budget? Bring it.

The next study for Fall of the Rebel Angels will take place in a vacant four-story, wood-frame house in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 

We're moving in with our clamp lights and our dirty sneakers.

I'm currently working on the remount of a Jim Neu play "The Floatones" with director Keith McDermott and a fantastic cast of downtown NYC performance-world stars: Jess Barbagallo, Joshua William Gelb, Larissa Velez-Jackson and Greg Zuccolo. We've got a work-in-progress performance coming up on March 24 at Dixon Place.

"The Floatones" is an experimental theater work in which four people form an "encounter support group” that sings about “post meaning” and being “content free” while consoling each other with idiosyncratic gestures and atonal harmonies. The play was written by the late downtown theater legend Jim Neu and premiered in 1995 at La MaMa's The Club starring Neu, Keith McDermott, Bill Rice and Mary Shultz. Catherine Galasso offers a fresh take on "The Floatones" in collaboration with a new generation of downtown performers. Keith McDermott (a director of Jim's plays for 15 years and a member of the original Floatones’ cast) is co-director and dramaturg. Galasso and McDermott will open the night with an excerpt from Neu's "Immediality."


On The Cutting Edge of Legitimate: Works by Jim Neu

Program includes: 
The Floatones ( Jess Barbagallo, Joshua William Gelb, Larissa Velez-Jackson and Greg Zuccolo )
Immediality  ( Kristine Haruna Lee and Keith McDermott )


March 24, 2014
7:30pm
Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
BUY TICKETS HERE

Video from the Fan Dance re-performance at the 92nd Street Y on November 22 2013

Choreography: Andy de Groat
Performers: Paisid Aramphongphan, Racy Brand, Ritty Burchfield*, Rosalie Elkinton, Edith Freyer, Patrick Gallagher, Olsi Gjeci, Makram Hamdan**, Kathy Ray*, Satya Stainton, Julia Vickers, Buck Wanner
Rehearsal director: Catherine Galasso
Rehearsal space donated by Abrons Art Center

*original cast, Fan Dance 1978 at St. Mark's Church 
**member of Andy de Groat's company Red Notes from 1991-1995


Videography by NYU Tisch

Andy de Groat's Fan Dance was originally choreographed in 1978 for St Mark's Church and featured an original score by my father, Michael Galasso. I have had the pleasure of coordinating and running rehearsals for this 5-minute gem of a piece over the past few weeks, thanks to an invitation from a young curator, Benjamin Kimitch.  

Andy de Groat's Fan Dance (1978)
Fridays at Noon at 92nd Street Y
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22 AT NOON
Lexington Avenue at 92nd St  |  Buttenwieser Hall, 2nd Floor
Tickets: $5 Purchase in advance here

Andy de Groat's Fan Dance from 1978, with music by Michael Galasso, will be re-performed by a multi-generational cast including some of the original cast members. The program, curated by Benjamin Kimitch, includes works by Maggie Bennett and Molly Poerstel. Total run time: 40 minutes

Performers: Paisid Aramphongphan, Racy Brand, Ritty Burchfield*, Rosalie Elkinton, Edith Freyer, Patrick Gallagher, Olsi Gjeci, Makram Hamdan**, Kathy Ray*, Satya Stainton, Julia Vickers, Buck Wanner
Rehearsal director: Catherine Galasso
Rehearsal space donated by Abrons Art Center

*original cast, Fan Dance 1978 at St. Mark's Church 
**member of Andy de Groat's company Red Notes from 1991-1995

Study #7 performed by Edith Freyer, Sarah Sandoval, Austin Selden and Saori Tsukada. Original music by Adam Bach. We call this section "Ponies." The duet material was created during the Watermill residency, while the part with the tape was created for the space.

Performed at Center for Performance Research,  Brooklyn, NY. September 2013

On a mixed bill "Chez Bushwick Presents: 2Night Show September, Chez Bushwick Artists-in-Residence" shared with LJ Leach, Alessia Lovreglio, Mina Nishimura, Mariana Valencia, and Katie Workum. 

Videography by Victoria Sendra

Out with the old in with the new... ok so it's kind of tempate-y. But happy to have all the work in one place again. 

Woo-hoo! Another generous grant from the Bossak-Heilbron Foundation for Fall of the Rebel Angels! YES!