People

People is set entirely to live vocal performance of music by Barbra Streisand and explores the body, identity, and presence onstage. It is not a portrayal of Streisand, but moves within a lineage Streisand represents—a tradition of performers who have used voice, scale, and emotion to refuse containment. The ensemble acts as chorus, mirror, and memory, allowing the work to shift between individual experience and collective inheritance.

Blending contemporary dance with elements of concert and cabaret, the work treats theatricality and feeling as forms of intelligence rather than excess. Familiar songs are transformed into sites of physical inquiry, asking what it means to take up space unapologetically, and how that act remains both radical and necessary, yet increasingly difficult under the boundaries of capitalism in the 21st Century.

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Photo by Jordan Lombardi