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For a complete theatre resume, please email amanthamotion@gmail.com
All photos by Ken Stein
Amantha is the choreographer for PIPER McKENZIE'S ambitious and
exuberant show (hey, it's not easy getting 30+ people to undulate in
unison!)
Previews Fri 4/11, Sat 4/12 & Thu 4/17, 8pm
Shows Thu-Sat 4/18 through 5/10, 8pm
at The Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211 (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street)
www.bricktheater.com
A full re-creation of the Babylonian Temple of Ishtar in 539 B.C., on
the eve of the Persian invasion!
Ritual prostitution, untrustworthy historians, gyrating priestesses,
doomsday prophets, grasping plutocrats, undercover lovers, and seekers
of bloody vengeance!
2. PERIPATESIS: A Divine Journey
February 17th, 2007 7pm
Fielday @ PS122: The Field's Performance Showcase -
14 artists develop work by performing it live
PS122 - 151 First Avenue, at East 9th Street
Tickets $10 at the Door
Arrive early to get a ticket
Peripetesis fuses contemporary Belly Dance with theatrical performance using text, music, song and movement to explore the relationship between journey, fate and the divine spirit.
Created and performed by Amantha May and Pamela Backus.
3. ONE MILLION FORGOTTEN MOMENTS , September 11-15, 2007
One Million Forgotten Moments is a public-spectacle- showcase-festival-celebration-performance which features a lineup of 100 of New York's most talented artists from the legendary to the ridiculous, to the bizarre, to the insane, to the totally mindblowing.
We are transforming a former porn/DVD shop on Park Row (across the street from City Hall) into a beautiful 18th-century jewelbox theater, where an audience of 25 sits IN the storefront window and watches the madness unfold on the street.
PIPER McKENZIE'S BABES IN GANGLAND, part of OMFM 2007
Amantha bashes Hope Cartelli
The infamous fight across from city hall
4. MELANCHOLIA, March 10-20, 2005
By Leah Mercer
Directed by Amantha May
Featuring Johanna Weller-Fahy, Pamela Sabaugh and Cynthia Ward
The Looking Glass Theatre, 522 W. 57th Street, New York
Produced by the Looking Glass Theatre and S/W/ITCHES
A performance text that integrates image, poetry, music, movement and narrative, Melancholia exists in the landscape of then and now, of what was and what could be. Melancholia considers what role choice, circumstance and character play in the construction of sadness.
