les boudoirs des deux femmes

les boudoirs des deux femmes

Anita's Way
  the through block connecting W 42nd and W 43rd Streets
  between Broadway and 6th Ave
New York, NY

Friday, June 24, 2011
Performances at 2 & 5pm

directed by Dara Malina
designed by Julia Mancini

performed by Carolina Reiter, Jeanne Smith, Barrie Golden, Laura Harrison

This performance piece examines two women – one historic and the other contemporary. We watch as they enter and leave the space several times throughout their day to dress and undress in preparation for various events. The women and their dressers function with machine like precision and focus, representing the mechanization of their simplified roles – only to dress and redress. We witness a highly private act become public. Viewership becomes voyeuristic as we are permitted to watch the intimate procedure of dressing.