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Daria Kaufman
Performer/Choreographer (USA)
Ode (2018) is a solo dance theater piece that approaches the ballerina’s pointe shoe as a tool for exploring sexuality and the contradictions of effort.
How does the pointe shoe re-figure the body? What illusions does it grant? How does it liberate as it restrains?
Choreographed by Daria Kaufman | Performed by Randee Paufve | Set design by Lauren Elder
Residency Support: Polo Cultural Gaivotas (Lisbon, PT), Shawl-Anderson Dance Center (Berkeley, USA)
Performances: Cutting Ball Theater | Variety Pack - Director's Series (San Francisco, USA) | February 2018
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center (Berkeley, USA) January 2017
Ode (2018)

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