Claire Danes | Performance Space New York

Edith and Jenny

Edith and Jenny

Edith and Jenny

” penetrates past muscle and bone right to the women’s spirit…”
– Apollinaire Scherr, Newsday, on Christina Olson: American Model

Interwined through Rogoff’s signature choreography, performers Claire Danes and Ariel Rogoff Flavin explore the intimacy that has marked their life-long friendship.

Danes and Flavin encounter their eleven year-old selves on screen, captured in their respective film debuts, Claire as Edith in Dreams of Love, and Ariel as Jenny in Coyote Mountain. Rites of passage unfold in fragments revealing the complexities of two fictional families. The lines between screen and stage, life and art, are blurred as Edith and Jenny, Danes and Flavin, form an alliance, stepping through and beyond their films and the fates of their families.

Approximate running time: 60 minutes

Jan 26: Opening Night Benefit for Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects
Tickets: $75
Post-performance including wine and dessert reception with Tamar, Ariel and Claire as well as auction.

January 28: Post-performance talkback with the artists.

Jan 31: Members-only private performance and post-party with Tamar, Ariel and Claire
Join now and use your two complimentary member tickets to attend. E-mail the boxoffice to place your member reservations.

January 26 – February 4, 2007
Tuesday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 5 p.m.
$20($10 Members)
($75 Opening Night Benefit)

Christina Olson: American Model

Christina Olson: American Model

Christina Olson: American Model

Christina Olson is best known as the woman in the pink dress depicted in Andrew Wyeth’s iconic painting, Christina’s World. What is less known is that she suffered from a never-diagnosed muscular deterioration that left her arms weak and her lower body paralyzed. Fueled by both pride and denial, Christina rejected wheelchairs and found ways to move through the world relying only on her own strength. In this full length solo danced by Claire Danes (who first performed at P.S. 122 at the age of six), choreographer Tamar Rogoff uses her unique body-centric methodology to explore the ideas, spirit and physicality of a woman both rejected and revered. Christina Olson: American Model features music by Rachel’s, video by Harvey Wang and Andrew Baker, costume by Liz Prince and lighting by David Ferri.

September 21-October 2, 2005
Benefit for Tamar Rogoff
Performance Projects:

September 21 8:00 p.m.
Sunday Afternoon Discovery:
September 25 4:00 p.m.
$20($10 Members)

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