Your Body is Not a Shark

Choreographed by Cid Pearlman with an original score composed and performed by Joan Jeanrenaud, text by poet Denise Leto, and musical direction by Maya Barsacq (Cadenza Orchestra), Your Body is Not a Shark is a rigorous investigation into the inevitable fragility of the human body. At some point in our lives we each will experience a lack of physical capacity or a diminishing of social presence. This may come on quickly or over time, but it will come. Using “the stutter and the stumble” as inspiration for kinetic, aural, and poetic research, Your Body is Not a Shark asks the questions: What happens when we stumble, when our words won’t come out, when the body stutters? How can music, movement, and language evoke a broken wholeness?

Shark premiered at ODC Theater in San Francisco, January 11-13, 2013, followed by performances at Motion at the Mill in Santa Cruz, January 17-20.

Shark in the News
Rita Felciano review in Dance View Times
Rita Felciano preview the SF Bay Guardian
SF Examiner
SF Classical Voice
SF Chronicle
Art Animal Magazine
San Jose Mercury News
Dance Magazine
Sequenza
Santa Cruz Sentinel

ODC Premiere - Photos by Beau Saunders

Photo: Beau Saunders

Press Photos

Photo: Beau Saunders Pictured: Sarah Day, Molly Katzman, David King, Nahshon Marden

Photo: Beau Saunders Pictured: Sarah Day, Molly Katzman, David King, Nahshon Marden, Sara Wilbourne

For more information about the dancer/collaborators - Sarah Day, Molly Katzman, David King, Damara Vita Ganley, Nahshon Marden, and Sara Wilbourne, click here.

Your Body is Not a Shark was made possible in part by generous support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, the Rainin Opportunity Fund at ODC Theater, Motion at the Mill, and CA$H, a grants program of Theatre Bay Area, in partnership with Dancers’ Group.