Artistic Statement
At the center of my work is one obsessive question:
What do we need to shake off today in order to be more available for pleasure and surprise?
My plays are the place for the shaking.
On a subject level, I write about femme bodies interacting with violence and pleasure in America's.
On a formal level, my plays feel like a dance floor. I break down assumptions about “reality” through the material reorganization of sound, movement and language. I use sensory, visceral and surreal storytelling elements to carve space for cathartic pleasure.
When in process, I draw from a devising-performance background and work from an ethos of investigative play. I believe scripts crack open in unexpected ways and each co-creator wields a joyful hammer.
My plays are kinetic and sharp. They affirm and upend our emotional experiences while repeating one simple mantra - we only have this moment, these bodies, right now.
With my work, I help us wrestle through tension of now to land, pleasurably disoriented, in a more embodied and collective future.
What do we need to shake off today in order to be more available for pleasure and surprise?
My plays are the place for the shaking.
On a subject level, I write about femme bodies interacting with violence and pleasure in America's.
On a formal level, my plays feel like a dance floor. I break down assumptions about “reality” through the material reorganization of sound, movement and language. I use sensory, visceral and surreal storytelling elements to carve space for cathartic pleasure.
When in process, I draw from a devising-performance background and work from an ethos of investigative play. I believe scripts crack open in unexpected ways and each co-creator wields a joyful hammer.
My plays are kinetic and sharp. They affirm and upend our emotional experiences while repeating one simple mantra - we only have this moment, these bodies, right now.
With my work, I help us wrestle through tension of now to land, pleasurably disoriented, in a more embodied and collective future.
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Malena Pennycook
Artistic Statement
At the center of my work is one obsessive question:
What do we need to shake off today in order to be more available for pleasure and surprise?
My plays are the place for the shaking.
On a subject level, I write about femme bodies interacting with violence and pleasure in America's.
On a formal level, my plays feel like a dance floor. I break down assumptions about “reality” through the material reorganization of sound, movement and language. I use sensory, visceral and surreal storytelling elements to carve space for cathartic pleasure.
When in process, I draw from a devising-performance background and work from an ethos of investigative play. I believe scripts crack open in unexpected ways and each co-creator wields a joyful hammer.
My plays are kinetic and sharp. They affirm and upend our emotional experiences while repeating one simple mantra - we only have this moment, these bodies, right now.
With my work, I help us wrestle through tension of now to land, pleasurably disoriented, in a more embodied and collective future.
What do we need to shake off today in order to be more available for pleasure and surprise?
My plays are the place for the shaking.
On a subject level, I write about femme bodies interacting with violence and pleasure in America's.
On a formal level, my plays feel like a dance floor. I break down assumptions about “reality” through the material reorganization of sound, movement and language. I use sensory, visceral and surreal storytelling elements to carve space for cathartic pleasure.
When in process, I draw from a devising-performance background and work from an ethos of investigative play. I believe scripts crack open in unexpected ways and each co-creator wields a joyful hammer.
My plays are kinetic and sharp. They affirm and upend our emotional experiences while repeating one simple mantra - we only have this moment, these bodies, right now.
With my work, I help us wrestle through tension of now to land, pleasurably disoriented, in a more embodied and collective future.