"ENCHANTING... BURSTING WITH IDEAS AND INVENTION LIKE A TREASURE CHEST SO PACKED WITH JEWELS THAT THE LID WON’T STAY DOWN."
Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle
ODC Theater Commission
55 minutes
7 performers
Alone Together flips the orientation of the proscenium, placing the audience on the stage and the performers in the seats. Other-worldly dreamscapes give way to volcanic dance numbers, ranging from the audacious to the familiar, combining Galasso’s signature cinematic approach with a riveting score by composer Dave Cerf.
"FULL OF SELF-CONSCIOUS HUMOR AND DYNAMIC REFRAMING OF WHAT IT MEANS TO PERFORM AND TO WATCH."
~ Dasha Bulatova, Piedmont Post
Alone Together is Galasso’s third installment of her multi-chapter performance series, Of Iron and Diamonds, based on Boccaccio’s Decameron. Each chapter is uniquely site- and cast-specific, revealing a sharply present, whimsical take on this seminal literary work, while remaining reflective of a contemporary approach to performance rooted in the avant-garde. The previous chapter, "Of Granite and Glass," opened the 2018 River To River Festival in downtown New York City, and was featured in The New York Times' #speakingindance video series.
"EVOCATIVE [...] EERIE... [CREATING] A RICH TAPESTRY OF MOMENTS THAT FLEW BY LIKE SOME FILM EDITOR’S WORK ON SPEED."
~ Rita Felciano, DanceViewTimes.com
Alone Together
Choreography
Catherine Galasso, in collaboration with performers
Performers
Arletta Anderson, Eric Garcia, Cookie Harrist, Hien Huynh, Phoenicia Pettyjohn, Karla Quintero, Galicia Stack Lozano
Music and Sound Design
Dave Cerf
Costumes
Monique Jenkinson
Dramaturgy and Scenic Design
Jesse Hewit
Lights
Grisel GG Torres
Creative Producer
Tara Sheena
Commissioned by
ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
Support
Arts Brookfield
Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
ODC Theater
Assets 4 Artists Program
This project is funded, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
The project was developed through residencies at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, ODC, and through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Special thanks to all the individual donors who supported "Alone Together"