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TRAVELOGUES: Colin Gee & Angie Smalis: Chaplet of Roses & They Go Out in Joy
Experimental Theater
Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 7:30PM

Abrons Arts Center, Experimental Theater
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
F/M to Delancey/Essex; B/D to Grand St.; M14A to Pitt St.


Chaplet of Roses (2014) is drawn from a 15th century fragmentary tapestry, “Honor Making a Chaplet of Roses,” featuring an allegory of courtly love told through the simultaneous action of four characters. Created in Limerick, Ireland, with Gee and Smalis performing the four parts, the work explores a contemporary interpretation of the allegory as a notion of individual and community morality, by framing shifts between public and private life. They Go Out in Joy (2016), is a series of performance portraits drawn from photographs of Irish emigrants taken just prior to their departure from Cobh, Ireland in the 1920’s, when Cobh was the major port of emigration. Set against the background of present day Cobh, Gee and Smalis again portray all the roles, shifting between the public and private lives of each persona at a single moment of pause ⎯ imagining what has just happened or is about to happen. Travelogues curator Laurie Uprichard met Colin when he performed with Iréne Hultman at Danspace Project in 2000. She has since seen his work in the Dublin Fringe Festival. Laurie first saw Angie as a dancer in Limerick’s Daghda Dance Company. Her work, The Lightly Fragranced Solo was selected as part of the Re-Presenting Ireland showcase at Dublin Dance Festival 2010.