coverture

Present by Roulette - January 2021

Coverture is a series of conversations and improvised performances devised by choreographer Tess Dworman with dramaturgy by Angie Pittman. Each night of the three-night run, Dworman performed a duet with a different guest artist: John Maria Gutierrez, Miguel Gutierrez, and Martita Abril. Dworman and her guest lipsynched to a recording of a conversation they previously had, and performed movement prompted from conversational threads. The origin of these conversations and improvisational scores is rooted in the tragic death of Cuban-American artist, Ana Mendieta.