Malice Dreaming Productions presents:

Spinster's Ball
spin·ster (n.)
1. A woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying.
2. A single woman.
3. A person whose occupation is spinning.

This is a dance show exploring different facets of female independence in those who were/ are typecast as spinsters both in history and in pure fiction...How and why these characters came to be spinsters, voluntarily or circumstantially....and their varying emotional states in response.



Cast & Characters:

Marguerite, Jerry Summers, & Rico in a more literal interpretation of Sufi spinning, to live music*

Tatianna, in two separate vignettes: as two very different women who never married due to their career choices: one of them being Clara
Barton, nicknamed "Angel of the Battlefield": the founder of the American Red Cross

Katerina portraying an excerpt from Chinese mythology about the never-married goddess of compassion Guan Yin*

Tara Kearney, portraying a spinster whose reckless insecurities drove her lovers away

Lee Ali, portraying a spinster with a voracious appetite

Elissa & Sina, in a duet about a widow finding comfort in her unchangeable spinster sister

Sayyadina, portraying the "Virgin Queen", Queen Elizabeth I

Saviya as a spinster longing for the child that was not to be

Deidre Cavazzi, inspired by the never-married poet Emily Dickinson

Ilana as the Healer of a remote Irish island*

Akasha Starr as the pioneering French fashion designer Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel

Heather Coker, as a spinster who is torn between revelling in her freedom, and the loneliness that descends upon her every night

Sina as the Oracle at Delphi, who was a channel for the god Apollo, an unmarried and virtuous woman, and above all, a performer


*These are Friday night ONLY performers!

2 shows!
Friday, July 24th at 9:00pm ~ fridayspinster.eventbrite.com
Saturday, July 25th at 9:00pm ~ saturdayspinster.eventbrite.com

at Studio A Dance
2306 Hyperion Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Tickets: $11 in advance, $20 at the door, if seating is available
Advance ticket sales will end at 3pm the day of each performance

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