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Contact: Kathleen Laziza, Executive Director, November 9, 2004

(Gorgeous as All Hell)

Written and Directed by Jeannie Hutchins

Translated and Performed by Eva Gasteazoro

"...intensely expressed... where formal beauty coexists with instincts and ideals."

La Prensa, "X Festival Internacional de Teatro" 2004, Managua, Nicaragua

This solo performance is about the pull toward darkness, and our fearful fascination with that darkness. The woman on stage is both high-minded and animalistic, a sensualist enchanted alike by grandeur and decay; the viewer is immersed in an autumn landscape conjured out of her mental machinations. Created in 2001, "Gorgeous as All Hell" was presented as "Endemoniadamente bella" at the Tenth International Theater Festival in Managua, Nicaragua in September 2004. Sharing an interest in language and in the relative qualities of different languages, Hutchins and Gasteazoro used the Nicaragua invitation as an opportunity to collaborate on the Spanish-language version. Eva Gasteazoro will perform this piece in Spanish with translation. This performance is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).

Jeannie Hutchins has lived and worked in theater in New York since the mid-1970s. Trained as a dancer, she became interested in a more hybrid form of theater and in 1976 performed in both Meredith Monk’s Quarry and the Robert Wilson-Philip Glass opera, Einstein on the Beach. Her association with Meredith Monk’s company led to her long-term membership in Ping Chong and Company, with whom she performed 12 pieces between 1977 and 1994. Hutchins received a 1986 Bessie award for her work with that group. Jeannie Hutchins has also had long-term collaborations with other theater artists, most notably with Robbie McCauley in Sally’s Rape. Since 1978, Hutchins has created her own work, concentrating since 1986 on solos that integrate language and movement. Her work has been presented in New York at Performance Space 122, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Franklin Furnace, Dance Theater Workshop, and La Mama, as well as in Canada, Spain, Italy, and Holland.

Eva Gasteazoro is a Nicaraguan performance artist and writer living in NYC since 1983. She was seminal in starting the first contemporary dance movement in Nicaragua during the revolution in 1979. Since coming to New York, her work has been presented at the Manhattan Theater Club, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, Performance Space 122, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, and the Public Theater, among other venues. Her work has been produced internationally and throughout the US by DTW’s Suitcase Fund.

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