Presented by Pageant, November 16-18, 2023

Choreographed and Performed by Tess Dworman

Co-performed by Sonya Gadet Molansky

Sound by Big Hard Excellent Fish and Mel Elberg

Everything Must Go is a dance theater work that emerges from satirical questioning into the consumption of experimental performance. It examines the ways in which capitalism provokes a savior complex in artists, urging us to demonstrate goodness amidst crisis. My investigation into persona and the solo improvisational form continues with this stark inhabitation of character and an inventory of feeling inside the power play between performer and audience. A teacher becomes a life coach becomes The Artist becomes your mom. The work lays bare the tangential renewal of live performance.