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Robyn O'Dell
Choreographer/Director, Collaborator, & Educator
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper is a devised dance-theatre production based on the same-titled American short story written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. O'Dell's adaptation explores the fragility of the human psyche and the importance of autonomy of one's own health and body through a vibrant combination of dance, theatre, and animated projections. Using a heightened sense of ensemble-based movement and physical storytelling, this production blurs the lines between text and subtext and reality and delusion, in a hauntingly- fantastical hybrid-style of performance.
Photos by Skye Schmidt
Premiere: 2019
University of California, Irvine
Experimental Media Performance Laboratory
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Adapter and Director: Robyn O'Dell
Sound Design: Jordan Tani
Animations: Miranda Javid, Michelle Roche, Brenda Vu
Lighting Design: Morgan Embry
Set Design: Anna Ialeggio & Robyn O'Dell
Stage Manager: Samantha Sorin
Cast: Lindsey Allgood, Jacob Boarnet, Jemima Choong, João Pedro Ducci , Jezelle Lacson, Natalia Pinpin, Sadie Sandoval, with voice over by Gavin Mueller
Length : 45 minutes, no intermission
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