gloria rehearsal (excerpt) 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. gloria rehearsal (excerpt) is a meditation striving toward catharsis despite deep communal grief.
Choreographed and Performed by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Sound Design by James Lo
Filmed and Edited by Tatyana Tenenbaum
Additional Camera by Colin Nusbaum
The score has been mixed for headphones/earbuds using 3D spatialization software from the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics – IEM and from the ambiX suite by Matthias Kronlachner.
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), Rude World (PS122 and The Chocolate Factory Theater for COIL 2015), Tulip (Roulette, 2013; Judson Now at Danspace Project, 2012), and Beautiful Bone (The Chocolate Factory Theater, 2012).