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What comes after happy asks the titular question through humor, irony, extravagant fantasy and honest confessions. Deconstructed self-help seminars, children’s television shows, automated phone messages, GPS instructions and bureaucratic manuals serve to create the text for this subversive and disarming work. A cinematic weaving of escalating psycho-social vignettes, this work reveals how we whitewash our everyday lives and our feelings to announce to the world and ourselves that we do not covet, that we are not filled with unrest, and that we do not mourn. what comes after happy features 300 fortune cookies, an eclectic and infectious sound collage, a ferocious physical and verbal vocabulary and five characters grappling with desire, idealism, satisfaction and apathy.
the turmoil, ecstasy, passion and ambivalence in the first year of motherhood. Confronting both personal and cultural expectations for women and mothers through humor, confession, and a construction of impossible tasks, egg reveals why we fail as mothers in the eyes of society and attempts to find love within the matrix of perfection. Celebrated dancer Alexandra Beller uses dance, text, mathematics, and raw eggs in her search for balance, humor, love and justification. The piece demands an answer to the unanswerable questions of both motherhood and the artistic life. A mine field of sound-producing equipment sets the stage for Beller’s lush and evocative dancing around and between twelve dozen raw eggs. An eerie and three dimensional sound score by Robert Poss and vintage-inspired costume by Karen Young enrobe the artist in textured, shifting archetypes and images.
You Are Here, created through The Company Residency at The Yard, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, and HERE Artist in Residency Program, is an evening length quartet for Alexandra Beller/Dances. “You Are Here,” is a haunting world in which a scuba clad concierge, a tap dancing lesbian, a mute soldier and a murderous debutante are forced to learn from each other. Using characters from Sartre’s “No Exit,” You Are Here investigates how we are defined to each other by our society. Which definitions do we choose and which are chosen for us? How do we know, for a fact, that we are here? Do we make money, make love, make art? Do we feel “less here” when no one is watching? Is performing proof of existence? Is pain proof of reality? Do psychology, religion, social definitions or political parties really help delineate our boundaries from one another? Using their personal histories to map themselves physically and emotionally in time and space, the performers use humor and terror to arrive at a destination that defies definition, but which marks a sense of connection to each other. The work explores movement, text and music with equal intensity and considers the possibility that each can be not only acts of communication, but ultimately, acts of both survival and subversion.
us, created through a UWMilwaukee Fellowship and HERE Artist in Residency Program, is an evening length solo work. “us” is a critique of contemporary American politics and the psycho-social fallout from legislative decision-making. In various duets with objects (including an American flag, an inflatable sex doll and a mop), Beller confronts the threat of the anti-choice movement, the hypocrisy of gay marriage opposition, and the state of disrepair of the arts. We follow one woman in her struggle to defend her body, mind, liberty and inspiration from government assault. Beller, "a seductive mix of bravado and despair" (Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice ), uses rich theatricality and vigorous physicality to challenge the phenomenon of blind patriotism. The development of "us" is sponsored in part by The Puffin Foundation Ltd. 