Carnivore

by Kate Seethaler/Meghan Frederick

Showing in the MAAS Garden

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Showing in the MAAS Garden •

Carnivore researches the imaginative life of the material body, shaped by the artists' own experiences of pregnancy, birth and motherhood.

Showing in the MAAS Garden


1320 N. 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Friday, Sep 23 @ 5:30 PM- CANCELLED
Sunday, Sep 25 @ 1:00 PM - CANCELLED
Thursday, Sep 29 @ 5:30 PM

ENCORE SHOW- Friday, Sep 30 @ 7:00PM

Alternately humorous, grotesque, sensual, and whimsical, this site-specific duet explores motherhood, gender, and dance as performances of the body. Utilizing a three-dimensional approach to choreography inspired by pregnancy itself, Carnivore conjures body-images, fantasies, and phobias both aspirational and horrific. Monsters, spells, newborn babies, dead animals, and the process/practice of taxidermy-- abject narratives challenge reified images of inert femininity. Giant billowing sheets, bright bulky sweatshirts, neon cellophane, duct tape, bare skin, and antlers--repurposed objects produce extensions of the body through which majestic creatures and abstract sculptures form and dissolve. Carnivore honors and exploits the roles of decoration, performance, and aesthetics in even the most 'natural' of processes.

Co-creators/Performers: Meghan Frederick & Kate Seethaler

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About the Artist:
Kate Seethaler & Meghan Frederick

Meghan Frederick is a dance artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Meghan's work explores motherhood and western dance practice as choreographies of devotion and has recently been presented by See Chicago Dance (IL), The Engine (ME), VOX POPULI (PA) and Leah Stein Studio (PA) (the latter three with Kate Seethaler); Space Gallery (ME), Movement Research, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Arts on Site, Center for Performance Research, and STUFFED Dinner and Dance (all NYC). Meghan was a member of the Brian Brooks Moving Company from 2008-2014 and has performed with Vanessa Anspaugh, Liz Lerman, Megan Bridge, and SUBCIRCLE Dance Company among many others. Meghan teaches at Temple, Rowan, and Drexel Universities and completed her MFA at Temple University as a University Fellow.

Kate Seethaler is an improviser, choreographer, performer and teaching artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Her choreographic work moves from questions about the audience-performer relationship, as well as the scope and legibility of improvisation, while meshing surreal humor with sincerity and uncertainty. In addition to collaborating and performing with Meghan Frederick, Kate has performed in works by Kellie Lynch, Joy Davis, Jenn Nugent, Stephanie Maher, Deborah Goffe and Katie Martin, Michael Figueroa, Paige Phillips and Annie Wilson. She works as a movement educator and Pilates teacher. Kate received her MFA in Dance Choreography/Performance from Smith College in 2016 as a Gretchen Moran Teaching Fellow.

Visit:
meghanfrederick.com

Follow:
Facebook: @kseethaler
Instagram: @carnivore_a.dance.performance