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Ablution
Combining the 1940’s pop art pin-up girl world and the movements of a common garden leech, Ablution is a humorous and startling dance theatre composition that examines the fine line between what is beautiful and what is grotesque. In a Vaudevillian series of thematically linked dances, songs, video interviews, and pantomimes, Ablution is a visual musing on the ridiculous nature of the modern rituals of femininity. Ablution allows the most gorgeous of women to get in touch with her inner leech, and revel in her own grotesqueness!
Conceived by: Bertie Ferdman and Suzi Takahashi
Created and Performed by: Bertie Ferdman, Kiyoko Kashiwagi, Paula Salomon, and Suzi Takahashi.
Video by: Julien Jourdes
Costume Designer: Suzi Takahashi
Special guest appearance: Pablo Abuliak
American Living Room Festival, 2002
Selected “Best of” Festival Artists of Tomorrow Festival, 2003
Photo by Julien Jourdes
Brooklyn, NY