FEB 2022 25 FRI 8 pm
  • FEB 2022 26 SAT 8 pm
Dance | USA
Rosanna Gamson/World Wide
Sugar Houses
Mandeville Auditorium
  • General Admission: $25
  • UCSD Student: $9
This event has been postponed from January to February 25–26, 2022. Ticket holders: An email has been sent regarding your ticket options. If you need assistance, please email artpower@ucsd.edu.

About

“The choreography and music are gripping, the company is impressive, and the uses of mixed-media are meaningful.”—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

Immersed in the dark world of the Brothers Grimm, Sugar Houses is a new dance theater work that employs the tale of Hansel & Gretel to explore the dynamics of scapegoating, and the complexity and complicity of looking the other way. Created by celebrated choreographer Rosanna Gamson, this adult retelling of the tale exposes hidden histories and finds contemporary resonances in the familiar story, recounted in bold imagery informed by the horror genre. The audience joins a cast of six dancers/singers/actors on stage in an evening filled with gallows humor, choral singing, athletic dancing, arcane rites, and spooky incantations. Traditional American songs arranged by Fahad Siadat and Tomasz Krzyzanowski and witches’ spells by famed horror writer Brian Evenson are performed live with sonic sampling by Simon Greenberg.

The presentation of Sugar Houses by Rosanna Gamson/World Wide was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project was supported by a National Performance Network (NPN) Artist Engagement Fund, with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit www.npnweb.org.

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Note

Recommended for audience ages 12 and up.

Covid Information

Be prepared to show:
1) ID
2) UCSD-Community: Your green or yellow thumb from your daily symptoms check.
Non-affiliate event guest, one of the following:
Proof of vaccination (14 days past second shot of Pfizer or Moderna or 14 days past single shot of Johnson and Johnson). Acceptable forms of vaccination proof: CA Digital Vaccine record or vaccination card (paper or photo)
OR
Proof of a negative result of a COVID test within the last 48 hours. Acceptable forms of test results: Paper, digital (like MyChart), or email.

Masks required.

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