2025 Festival Schedule & TICKETS
WILBURY THEATRE GROUP
475 Valley Street, Providence, RI
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SCHEDULE SUMMARY:
Thursday, February 27, 7:30pm: Small Moves, Big Picture—Live Performances & Dance Films & Opening Night Party
Friday, February 28, 7:30pm: Double Bill—Lacina Coulibaly’s Until the Lion Tells the Story… and Kathy Westwater & Lance Gries’ Revolver.
Saturday, March 1, 7:30pm: Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith’s Body Comes Apart.
SCHEDULE DETAILS:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 7:30pm
SMALL MOVES, BIG PICTURE
A spunky mix of live dance performances on a small stage juxtaposed with dance films on a big screen.
Performances by Alexander Davis (MA) . Barbie Diewald & Meredith Bove (MA) . Daniel McCusker (MA) . Jessica T. Pearson & April Brown (RI) . NANO (RI) & more TBA
Films to be announced soon!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 7:30PM
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Until the Lion Tells the Story...
Choreographed & Performed by Lacina Coulibaly
A heartfelt tribute to the remarkable African scholars who have ignited a fire in Coulibaly. It is an attempt and desire of the Burkina Faso artist to envision an African Renaissance, a different Africa that is rooted in its own indigenous knowledge, drawing inspiration from its cultural diversity, from ancient Egypt to the Mali Empire. Until The Lion Tells the Story… is an invitation to embrace the wisdom and knowledge of Africa as an essential part of being in the world, and a reminder that the journey towards renaissance and transformation begins with building one’s inner pyramid.
"A riveting presence in quiet command of the space." —The New York Times
A solo work of astonishingly articulate abstraction." —The Dance Enthusiast
Revolver
Choreographed & Performed by Kathy Westwater with Lance Gries
Revolver speaks to existential threat from super-catastrophes, bound by the subtext that dance itself causes pain.
“Revelatory.” —The New York Times
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 7:30PM
LIVE PERFORMANCE
Body Comes Apart
Choreographed & Performed by Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith
Memories take on a mythology and fantasy of their own, making shared experiences of sexual trauma alive in the moment and fodder for manipulation. Body Comes Apart is a collage of dance, monologue, of teaching fake workout classes, telling real and fake stories of our pasts, speaking to ourselves as children. There is shedding and trying on; clothes become analogous to history. Language becomes a vehicle for representation and a gateway to performing enlivened imagination. As we implicate ourselves and the audience with mirrors, we implicate fantasies forced upon us and derived from us with the text.
“As fluent as their bodies are, though, the heartbeat of their work has always been more about excavating an inner landscape, one that considers the objectification of women." —Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
Note: This performance contains nudity.