HYMN + THEM (2018 / 2019)
Big Easy Classical Arts Award for Outstanding Dance Presentation (2018) NOMINATION
Choreographed by: Leslie Scott
Production Design: Hannah Lax
Performed by: Rachel Abrahams and Jonathan Bryant
hymn + them is a multimedia, contemporary dance work that explores a woman’s belonging and identity in American society. Herself born and raised in Kansas, choreographer Leslie Scott uses Dorothy’s famous journey to Oz as a lens to investigate the identity of today’s American woman.
Scott’s movement collages both rearrange reality and deconstruct nostalgia, to not only reflect Dorothy’s identity as a Midwestern woman, but also find contrast and similarities to identities elsewhere. It’s a contained collision of living room nostalgia and surreal dreamlands; part autobiography, part fantasy,
With the backdrop of America’s current political climate ever present, this project looks at woman's role in American society and her desire to escape, to find belonging, and discover a collage of contrasting identities.
