Will You Be My Liver
Music in this clip by Michael Galasso: 
Will You Be
My Liver
choreographed and performed by Catherine Galasso
For the dance-theater piece, Will You Be My Liver,
Catherine Galasso grapples with an unlikely subject: the liver transplant.
Drug induced paranoia and other psychological side effects become fodder for
movement, as well as metaphors for the way modern science can alter identity,
particularly when it concerns the organ that was once believed to be the seat
of love and violent emotion. Dealing with questions of spectatorship, identity,
revelation, and the mysteries of modern medical science, Will
You Be My Liver combines poignancy with playfulness to transform
the experience from personal to universal. This solo is a meditation on the
bizarre and emotionally wrenching reality that accompanies this complex operation.
Previously performed at:
CounterPULSE, San Francisco December 2008
Danspace Project, Draftwork Series April 2009
Dance New Amsterdam, RAW Materials October 2009
Type: Dance-Theater
Running time: Currently 12 minutes
Direction/choreography: Catherine Galasso
Music: Matt McCormick, Michael Galasso, Savoy Brown
Performed: December 2008 CounterPULSE, San Francisco; April 2009
Danspace Project, New York
Dancer(s): Catherine Galasso (With special guests Brandt Adams,
Samantha Allen, Alexandra Bradshaw, Mimi Cave, Courtney Cooke, Yuko Mitsuishi,
Kathryn Shearman)