A Normal Misfortune: More or Less the Story of Iphis
Co-director/Co-writer
May 2021
Presented as a part of the 2021 Cohen New Works Festival. Created in collaboration with Libby Carr, Allison Hamauei, and Yessmeen Moharram. Winner of the 2021 Trice Prize for Creative Scholarship in a Thesis at The University of Texas at Austin.
Iphis is madly in love, but can't have sex until the gods make her a boy. A Normal Misfortune: More or Less the Story of Iphis, is a 21st century dance theatre adaptation of chapter 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses. An exploration of obsessive romantic desperation, arbitrary markers of masculinity and the space between binaries, A Normal Misfortune: More or Less the Story of Iphis is a whirlwind dance of queer love.
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