Kayt MacMaster and Elliot Reza Emadian present:
In the heartland

In the heartland is a split-bill presentation of two solo performances born in the midwestern United States. Kayt MacMaster’s “hog ranch, hogwash, or putting lipstick on a pig,” is a site-responsive dance experience. Inspired by the lives and legends of cowgirls and showgirls on the land once known to some as the American frontier, this work explores solitude and self-mythologizing as feminist acts of resistance. Elliot Reza Emadian’s “Jack and Diane” uses improvisational dance tactics to illuminate the allure, the futility, and the impossibility of the mythical American dream.

Please join us after the event for a small gathering & information session about the University of Illinois MFA program.

Please note that this performance contains strong language and adult themes.

TICKETS

Suggested donation $10

Pre-registration encouraged

TECH & DESIGN CREDITS

hog ranch, hogwash, or putting lipstick on a pig

Choreography and performance: Kayt MacMaster

Dramaturgy: Sarah Marks Mininsohn

Music: Ken Beck

Director: Rachel Rizzuto

Jack and Diane

Choreography, sound, and performance: Elliot Reza Emadian

Costumes and scenery by Larissa Almanza
ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Catherine (Kayt) MacMaster is a dancer, choreographer, and scholar. She spent her early career in New York City dancing with artists such as Janet Panetta, K.J. Holmes, Johanna Stevens Meyer, Julie Atlas Muz, and Bread and Puppet Theater. Her choreography has been presented at venues including Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, MARSH and The Space Station (St. Louis), and the Dagara Music and Arts Center in Medie, Ghana. She earned an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she performed in works by Tere O’Connor, Cynthia Oliver, and Sara Hook. MacMaster is currently on faculty in the dance department at Alma College.

Elliot Reza Emadian is a gender-nonconforming interdisciplinary artist, teacher, and scholar. Their work occurs in the intersection of dance and choreography, video art and editing, sound and music, light and photography, and popular culture. Elliot holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from W&L University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Illinois. Elliot currently works as lecturer and administrator for Dance at Illinois as well as Director of Video Promotions for Bates Dance Festival.

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SUPPORT FOR In the heartland

Presented in part by the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois

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