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Press
"Comfort approaches the subject matter of her dances
with gentle humor and nostolgia. Tiptoeing into areas where
some may fear to tread."
Janine Parker, The Boston Globe
"Seeing the work with live audience was a revelation. Gasps and signs around me conveyed that the facts of the soul-killing
self appraisal that has become part and parcel of the beauty trade are not all common knowledge."
Derba Cash, The Boston Phoenix
"In addition to how expertly she works in a multidisciplinary format,[ Underground] River is a testament to Comfort's
inventive use of text as a sound score"
Anna Rogovoy, The Rogovoy Report
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Description
Jane Comfort and Company is a dance-theater group whose work
pushes the limits of dance and drama to achieve a new form
of theater. An instigator of collaborations across various
artistic disciplines, Jane Comfort's subject material is as
diverse as the artists and art forms she employs.
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Jane
Comfort Biography
JANE COMFORT is a choreographer, writer, and director who
has created over 50 dance theater works for her company since
1978. Her work explores the intersection of movement and text,
and has long mixed high and low arts to make social and political
commentary. She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, part of the
Manhattan Project, and received a BA in painting from the
University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill. She is a 2010
Guggenheim Fellow, and received a BESSIE Award for
Underground River...
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Repertory
Beauty
Beauty, a dance/theater work exploring the American
notion of female beauty and its metamorphosis over the last
50 years. Beauty frames the dialogue of the cultural
pressures surrounding women’s physique, attire, and
appearance around the quintessential icon of American beauty:
Barbie. Beauty addresses the plasticity of a variety
of “benign” beauty regimens as well as self-destructive
habits such as eating disorders and extreme surgeries. >read
more about Beauty
Underground River (25 minutes)
Underground River, winner of the Bessie
Award as a "risk-taking and profound theatrical tour
de force," is a dance/theater work that explores the
rich inner life of a girl who appears to the outer world to
be unconscious, or comatose.
Faith Healing
Originally produced in 1993 at PS122(NY) and then presented
Off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company (NY), Faith
Healing takes the story line of Tennessee Williams’
The Glass Menagerie as its point of departure. The issues
of nostalgia, regret, fantasy, hope, anger, and unrequited
love addressed in The Glass Menagerie are given a vivid and
fresh examination through Comfort’s perspective of movement
and performance theater. Additionally, the play’s themes
of fantasy and nostalgia are embodied by multiple escapes
into contemporary pop culture. >read
more about Faith Healing
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