Box is a feminist work continuing NYC-based Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith’s fifteen-year choreographic partnership using abstract dance as a means to break down patriarchal systems of degradation. The artists position themselves as recognizable images of female objectification, only to deconstruct and reconstitute these forms through embodied movement and connection. Box is a meditation striving toward catharsis despite deep communal grief.
Choreographed and Performed by: Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Sound Design: James Lo
Filmed by Tatyana Tenenbaum at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been making dances in New York since 2006. Recent works include: Gloria (Abrons Arts Center, 2021), Body Comes Apart (New York Live Arts, 2019, Documented by The New York Public Library, Jerome Robbins Dance Division and remounted for Live Artery, January 2020), Basketball (PS122 and Baryshnikov Arts Center for COIL 2017)...