Tess Dworman
Everything Must Go

December 18-21, 2024
7pm

$10-275

photo by Amelia Golden of a performance at Pageant. In the background, a white wall faced by a tall white curtain. Above, "Everything Must Go" is printed in blue letters on a wide banner. Tess Dworman stands on a dark wood floor wearing a light green rain coat. To her right, a lighting instrument on a stand.
photo by Amelia Golden of a performance at Pageant. In the background, a white wall faced by a tall white curtain. Above, "Everything Must Go" is printed in blue letters on a wide banner. Tess Dworman stands on a dark wood floor wearing a light green rain coat. To her right, a lighting instrument on a stand.

Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

Everything Must Go is a dance theater work that emerges from satirical questioning into the consumption of experimental performance. It examines the ways in which capitalism provokes a savior complex in artists, urging us to demonstrate goodness amidst crisis. My investigation into persona and the solo improvisational form continues with this stark inhabitation of character and an inventory of feeling inside the power play between performer and audience. A teacher becomes a life coach becomes The Artist becomes your mom. The work lays bare the tangential renewal of live performance.

Choreographed and Performed by Tess Dworman. Co-performed by Sonya Gadet Molansky. Sound by Big Hard Excellent Fish and Mel Elberg.

Everything Must Go was first presented by Pageant in November 2023.

This project was developed as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center Residency program. It was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

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