CRUSH
created and performed by Molly R-W
A solo show melding dance, theater, comedy and story-telling to explore the trials and tribulations of love, and the promise and pitfalls of self-help culture.
upcoming: Vancouver Fringe Festival, Vancouver, BC (Sep 2023) // New York City (Nov 2023) // San Francisco Bay Area (Nov-Dec 2023)
presented: NOHSpace, San Francisco (Dec 2022)
We Imagined Something Different
directed by Miguel Castillo
created and performed by Miguel Castillo, Ampersand Pester, Lena Engelstein & Marin Day
dramaturgy by Molly R-W
Perceiving enchantment requires what astronomers call averted vision, which is a way of seeing distant celestial bodies not by looking directly at the object, but by looking a little off to the side while continuing to concentrate on the object. By focusing on the dark space near the object, the object appears more clearly.
presented: Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College, Northampton MA (Feb 2022)
What It's Like
created and performed by Aviva & Molly R-W and Del Medoff
It's eye smiles, computer eyes, and seeing friends with new eyes. It's houses full of time we used to spend in public places. It's mask breath and accidentally brushing a stranger's pinky. It's finding things you never knew and missing things you never named. It's moving along despite it all. It's all of it.
presented: Strawberry Creek Park, Berkeley (Fall 2020)
Mind The Gap
created and performed by Aviva & Molly R-W
Between communication and understanding lies a vast, sometimes hilarious, at times perilous, uniquely indescribable abyss. Join the intimate journey of two twins exploring the gap between them. We stretch the limits of our uncommon understanding, grasping for the words in every language available—singing, dancing, flipping, climbing, rolling, and pitching ourselves ever onward towards an increasingly elusive clarity. What results is, well, hard to explain.
presented:
Kinetic Arts Center, Oakland CA (Jan 2019)
"8x8x8", The Uptown, Oakland CA (Jan 2019)
"Dance Lovers", Joe Goode Annex, SF CA (Feb 2019)
TicTac Art Centre, Brussels BE (Aug 2019) - excerpt
awards:
"Best Special Production" (nominated) - Theatre Bay Area
"Best Voice/Text/Sound" (nominated) - Izzy Awards
Social Movement
created by Molly R-W in collaboration with Chelsea Brown, Ky Frances, Jesse Wiener, and Galen Rogers
An evening of moving targets, hand signals, hope, and human pyramids. Loud, weird, fast, funny, slow, and tender. Join us as we sift through the trials of group action and explore the power of the collective imagination. 50 minutes.
presented: Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley CA (Nov 2018)
Side By Side
created and performed by Aviva & Molly R-W
Two people careen through life side-by-side, always moving, always together. This piece explores a relationship too thick to be broken moving through terrain too tough to take pause. A physical exploration of isolation, companionship, navigation, and distance in love, it requires continuous movement but never gets far. Soon, it looks deeply at fatigue.
presented:
LEVY Studio, SF CA (Jan 2017)
Finnish Hall, Berkeley CA (Jan 2017)
"8x8x8", The Uptown, Oakland CA (Jan 2017)