33 Fainting Spells
USA
Dirty Work
ICA
www.ica.org.uk
Fri 24-Sun 26 Jan (Fri & Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm) £12 (£9 concs)
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Three women career through a shifting kaleidoscope of mad, anecdotal happenings, culminating in a robbery at a luncheonette. 'Smart, complex, slyly hilarious, altogether different with a vengeance' said the New York Times, 33 Fainting Spells are Seattle performance artists Dayna and Gaelen Hanson (no relation) and Peggy Piacenza. Their work has been commissioned and presented in America's leading contemporary arts venues including Dance Theatre Workshop, New York, The Wooster Group's Performing Garage in SoHo, and at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts.
Dirty Work is inspired by sources ranging from Chekhov and Ingmar Bergman to Roger Whittaker's New World in the Morning. Through a filter of outdated low-fidelity media kit including school issue record players and projection equipment, the trio navigates a series of quirky, surrealist zones in which the act of performance teeters at a perilous junction between the sacred and the profane.

'33 Fainting Spells has its finger on the cultural zeitgeist...even more deliciously odd than I had hoped'. Village Voice

Runs approx 55 mins without interval

33 Fainting Spells website