Untitled Feminist Show
In Young Jean Lee’s latest experiment, UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW, six charismatic stars of the downtown theater, dance, cabaret, and burlesque worlds come together to invite the audience on an exhilaratingly irreverent, nearly-wordless celebration of a fluid and limitless sense of identity.
Cast Requirements
6 female-bodied performers
Press
"... one of the more moving and imaginative works I have ever seen on the American stage . . . Part of what makes it so transcendent is its delicious ability to alternate the pain of being different with a sense of humor about lives not lived among the status quo . . . Lee's universe is so emotionally complete that I yearned to be part of her utopia."
— Hilton Als, The New Yorker
"Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation . . . ['Untitled Feminist Show'] may well be her most daunting attempt to push her talent in a new direction."
— Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
"Who said the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak? Both are pretty damn fierce in director Young Jean Lee's all-female, all-nude dance suite cheekily (but purposefully) called Untitled Feminist Show. In a scant (and scantily clad) hour, Lee and her gutsy dancers try on a dizzying variety of modes and masks to shake up gender norms."
— David Cote, TimeOut New York
"[With] six fiercely funny, fully nude performers . . . all of whom are nothing short of majestic . . . This brief, joyous, mute extravaganza of dance, mime, and movement reveals is just how badly a sex-festooned and fashion-fussy culture has occluded our view of the actual, functional potential of an unadorned form."
— Scott Brown, New York Magazine
"Never mind finding a category for this work: What matters is its genuine charm, wholesome and subversive at the same time."
— Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post
Production and Development History
Kunstenfestivaldesartes Brussels, Belguim (European Premiere)
May 22-25, 2012
Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN (World Premiere)
January 5-7, 2012
Baryshnikov Arts Center
Co-Presented by Performance Space 122 as part of the 2012 COIL Festival
New York, NY (New York Premiere)
January 12- February 4, 2012