Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Isabella Rossellini

Link Link Circus

(U.S. Premiere)
May 16-23, 2018

Isabella Rossellini is “the best professor you could ever imagine: witty, lovely to watch.”
New York Magazine

Award-winning actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini takes inspiration from the natural world in her new theatricalized lecture: Link Link Circus. Following her widely acclaimed Green Porno (adapted from the celebrated Sundance Channel series) that explored the sexual behavior of other species, Link Link Circus addresses the latest scientific discoveries about animal minds, intelligence, and emotions. Joined onstage by various animals portrayed by Pan, her trained dog, Rossellini transforms herself into Aristotle, Descartes, F.S. Skinner, Charles Darwin, and more, to deliver a vivid monologue about the brilliance of the animal kingdom.

Link Link Circus is co-produced by Teatre Akadèmia.

Creative Team
Isabella Rossellini (performer, co-director, co-producer)
Guido Torlonia (co-director)
Rick Gilbert (set designer and line producer)
Andy Byers (set designer, costume designer, composer)
Bill Berloni (animal director)
Schuyler Beeman (puppeteer, animal handler)
Fanny Karst (ring leader costumes)
Andy Smetanka and Courtney Pure (animations)
Gina Freedman (props)
Stacey Foster (film and audio clips editor)
Alberto Rodriguez (technical director and lighting)


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Isabella Rossellini
Artist Bio

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini grew up in Paris and Rome. She made her cinematic debut as an actress in 1979 in the Taviani brothers’ film Il Prato (The Meadow) and has appeared in numerous other films, including the American features Blue Velvet, White Nights, Rodger Dodger, Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, Big Night, and Joy. She has worked with wide-ranging directors including Robert Zemeckis, David O. Russell, David Lynch, Robert Wilson, Taylor Hackford, Marjane Satrapi, and Guy Maddin.

She is also a successful television actress and filmmaker, with a keen interest in animals and wildlife conservation. Her award-winning series of shorts, Green Porno, Seduce Me, and Mammas offer comical and scientifically insightful studies of animal behavior. She will next be seen in Silent Live, Vita and Virginia and The Incredibles. Rossellini is completing a Master’s degree in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in New York City and has received a PhD Honoris Causa from the Science Faculty at UQAM (University of Quebec at Montreal). Rossellini’s most recent work for television includes Master of Photography, for European broadcaster SKY, and the American series Shut Eye, for Hulu, released in December 2016. Her new book My Chickens and I will be released by Abrams Books on March 13. Rossellini runs an organic farm in Brookhaven in association with the Peconic Land Trust and the Post Morrow Foundation. She is a mother of two and resides in Bellport, Long Island.

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Photo: Brigitte Lacombe