Memorandum of Understanding: Your Butt Is Covered

Premiered at Meridian Gallery, San Francisco January 2011.


Memorandum of Understanding:
Your Butt is Covered


A site-specific evening-length piece commissioned by the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, Memorandum of Understanding engaged with the gallery's exhibition Speak, Memory across three floors of the Meridian, a former Victorian mansion. In response to the exhibition's central themes of testimony, collective memory, and private acts, four performers guide audience through the site in a series of visually potent and humorous encounters, each uncanny in their familiarity as cinematic tableaux. Galasso’s quintessential manipulation of light factors significantly into the work, illuminating the performance ­ and the artwork on display ­ in ways unexpected and exciting.


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Type: Dance-theater
Running time: 50 minutes
Direction/choreography: Catherine Galasso
Performers: Alexandra Bradshaw, Honey McMoney, Andrew Merrell, Phoenicia Pettyjohn
Lighting Design: Julian Micallef

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