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credits

PREMIERE: Links Hall - Chicago, IL, May 2024

CONCEPT + DIRECTION: Melinda Jean Myers

PRESENTER: Lucky Plush Productions

COMPOSER + MUSICIAN: Lex Leto

Set Design: Tony Orrico

Stage Management: Cydney Cleveland

Project Management: Kara Brody

DEVISED IN COLLABORATION + PERFORMANCE: Kara Brody, Kim Goldman, Isabella Limosnero, Jacinda Ratcliffe, Melinda Jean Myers, Meghann Wilkinson

ABOUT

Created by Melinda Jean Myers in collaboration with Lucky Plush ensemble members and composer/musician Lex Leto. This new dance-theater work explores how the body holds opposing states of motivation and apathy, abundance and loss, and hope and despair during a climate crisis. Through visual storytelling and shared choreographies, the ensemble seeks a roadmap for greater awareness and collective action.    



past performance

This performance was made possible with generous support of Lucky Plush Productions’ Embodied Research Project,  University of Iowa’s Office of the Vice President for Research and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa’s Department of Dance, and University of Illinois

Special thanks to Extensions Dance Center, Links Hall, and bim bom studios for studio space, University of Iowa Dance Company 2022-2023, University of Iowa Production Unit for costume and set support