Full-Length Ensemble Show
Tinder & Ash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7LzIzE9AUA
An evening-length ensemble circus-theater show about the little and big deaths we experience in our lives, about losing and finding ourselves and each other, about intimacy and support, about grief and humility, about avoidance and forgiveness, and, through it all, the magnificent journey of transformation. Tinder & Ash unites the virtuosic nature of circus with the vulnerability of humans being.
Created & performed by: Amaya Alvarado, Lauren Feldman, Fe Fox, Megan Gendell, & Anthony Oliva
With creative consultation from Jesse Dryden & Jamie Hodgson
SummerStage NYC
New England Center for Circus Arts
Workshop presentation: La TOHU at Ecole Nationale de Cirque
Development residency: Orchard Project (Saratoga Springs, NY)
Creation residency: La TOHU (Montreal, QC)
90-sec Sizzle Reel for the full-length show "Tinder & Ash"
Video footage: Lino Cipresso
Video editing: Anthony Oliva
Music: “Tourbillon” by Julia Kent
Photos by Alexis Vigneault
Individual Acts
Performers: Megan Gendell & Lauren Feldman. Music: The DiGiallonardo Sisters and Tattle Tale
The Falling and the Catching
Duo trapeze act
Two women fall in love (and navigate the fear and intimacy that follows) ten feet in the air. A duet on one trapeze.
"The most delightful love story I've ever seen danced." -- Hannah Lorenzo, PhillyIsDancing.com
Private wedding
Circadium Gala (Philadelphia)
Canopy Studio’s 15th Anniversary Show (Athens)
Sir Cupcake's Queer Circus Goes Back In Time (Portland, OR)
Tell It Slant: A Feminist Cabaret (Tangle Movement Arts, Philadelphia)
Topsy Turvy (San Francisco)
Performers: Megan Gendell & Lauren Feldman. Music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
Frolic
Duo trapeze act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGaTcCIqvJw
“Frolic” offers a glimpse of a playful, intimate, and enduring friendship, an ode to those with whom we can be our most joyful, open, and trusting selves.
Daidogei Festival (Shizuoka, Japan)
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus' Third Coast Cabaret (Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival)
Golden Karl International Festival (Riga, Latvia)
Timelines (Tangle Movement Arts, Philadelphia)
New England Center for Circus Arts
Long Way Round
Duo trapeze act
Buoyant, honest, and complicated, “Long Way Round” depicts the passage of time and the moments when long-term partners want to move their lives in opposite directions.
Elements of Friction (Tangle Movement Arts, Philadelphia)
Goldenrod & Aster
Duo trapeze act
Set to musically underscored excerpts from an interview with botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Goldenrod & Aster” paints a picture of the intelligence, communication, and bio-symbiosis of plants — and examines what that can teach us about the world we live in and how we relate to it… and to others of our own species. Soundscape: Zoe Keating, with excerpts from the podcast “On Being” (Krista Tippett’s interview with Kimmerer)
Go West Craft Fest (Tangle Movement Arts, Philadelphia)
Plant-Us: An Earth Day Circus Cabaret (Philadelphia)
Performers: Lauren Feldman & Amaya Alvarado. Text by Lauren Feldman.
Kinds of Stillness
Storytelling/handbalancing act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryteq67hjEQ
Through handstands and text, Lauren investigates different kinds of stillness, sharing the story of the first time she kissed a girl, reflections on the gradual disappearance of a loved one, and an attempt to find her own grounding alone.
New England Center for Circus Arts
Performer: Lauren Feldman. Music: Merrill Garbus and William Brittelle/Roomful of Teeth.
And I Miss You
Solo static trapeze act
Set to a soundscape of autobiographical voicemails and a cappella song, a woman learns of the passing of her grandmothers and is launched into a journey through absence, grief, and what comes after.
PSCA Cabaret (Philadelphia)
HOT! Festival (Dixon Place, NYC)
New England Center for Circus Arts
Performers: Megan Gendell & Lauren Feldman. Music by Sufjan Stevens & Osso String Quartet.
What of an Afternoon
Duo trapeze act
Two strangers cross paths and discover a kindred spirithood. They come to know each other, invest in each other, love each other. And then one of them fades from the life of the other, pulling away for reasons never shared, leaving the two with absence and loss.
HOT! Festival (Dixon Place, NYC)
Topsy Turvy (San Francisco)
Collaboration & Dramaturgy
WEBS CIRCUS: A circus confronting sexualized violence with humor, tragedy, and empathy
Feminist, activist, ensemble circus-theater show by One World Circus
Workshop performance: New England Center for Circus Arts, 2019
Hysterical
Feminist ensemble circus-theater show by Alter Circus
Workshop performance: New England Center for Circus Arts, 2018
TINDER & ASH
Queer, feminist ensemble circus-theater show
Excerpt performance: SummerStage, NYC, 2015
Workshop performance: New England Center for Circus Arts, 2015
Development residency: Orchard Project, 2015
Creation residency: La TOHU, Montreal, 2014
The Bizarre and Curious Quest of Killian Cog
Ensemble circus show by ImaginAerial
Click here to read ImaginAerial's blog post about our dramaturgical collaboration!
And If You Lose Your Way, or A Food Odyssey
Audience-interactive ensemble play with music
Production: The Invisible Dog, directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh, NYC, 2014
Nomination: New York Innovative Theatre Award
LADY M
Feminist ensemble play
Production: Philadelphia Live Arts Festival / Swim Pony, directed by Adrienne Mackey, Philadelphia, 2011
Now/Not Now
One-woman play with movement and trapeze
Performance: HOT! Festival, Dixon Place, co-created with Diana Y Greiner, NYC, 2011
PLAYBACK: PICASSO and PLAYBACK: JACQUES BREL
Youth-ensemble-created-and-performed shows through Two River Theater
Performances: Two River Theatre Company, directed and co-facilitated by Pirronne Yousefzadeh, Red Bank, NJ, 2010-2012