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Beth Gratzer
WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

first performed on March 26, 2013
Grace Exhibition Space, New York, NY
performed five times in 2013

ALLISON BRAINARD

Maxwell Cosmo Cramer, Nikima Jagudajev, Harriett Meyer, Sam Roeck, Alex Romania, Louise Trueheart, Jesse White

New York, NY
allisonbrainard@gmail.com
cargocollective.com/allisonbrainard

WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
ALLISON BRAINARD

In “What Are They Doing?,” I direct a group of performers through an event framework within which they are free to generate improvised content. The roles of the individual performers are interchangeable and they are uniformly dressed in wigs, underwear and sneakers. The events relate generally to situations of social anxiety and involve props from pop culture. I give the performers a range of options for how to enact each event and cultivate instincts with them rather than choreograph.