TOO BAD IT’S NOTHING
choreographed by Madison Palffy in collaboration with the dancers
performed by Molly McBride, Olana Flynn, Hayley Jane Blackstone, Anna Wotring, and Idalia Buddington
costumes by Ruth Kace
Hampshire College / April 2014
In this piece, the body is not a solid legible unit--the bodies are vibrating, alien, full of the ghosts of television shows and traumas. too bad it’s nothing pushes formalism and femininity to their grotesque extremes. Costumes by Ruth Kace exaggerate the sense of apocalypse or dystopia--a world in which we are issued uniform grey jumpsuits with absurdly feminine ruffles on the hems. A pack of women disintegrating: twisting in and out of legibility.
**THIS PIECE WAS PRODUCED AS A PART OF MY THESIS WORK AT HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TITLED "ILLOGICAL, ILLEGIBLE: QUEER PHENOMENOLOGY, FAILURE, AND DANCE".