Beth Gill, with long-time design collaborators Thomas Dunn and Jon Moniaci, offer the site-specific performance Catacomb. Inspired by the imagination and subconscious inhabiting a dreamlike, sensory-rich world the work draws the audience into an immersive act of witnessing. Gill creates an intimate, surrealist space building on the formalism of her past works, while forging new psychologically driven terrain through explorations of role, the gathering and layering of meaning and being, and ultimately, disappearance

Places Performed
The Chocolate Factory (NY)
Fusebox Festival (TX)
Wexner Center For The Arts (OH)
River To River Festival (NY)

Runtime
45 minutes

Choreography
Beth Gill

Lighting and Scenery
Thomas Dunn

Music and performance
(theremin, laptop)
Jon Moniaci

Costumes
Baille Younkman

Performed by
Maggie Cloud
Jennifer Lafferty
Heather Lang
Stuart Singer
Marilyn Maywald Yahel

Catacomb is co-commissioned by The Chocolate Factory, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Live Arts Bard at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, and was developed as part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Catacomb was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts; and is supported, in part, by the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards program and a 2015 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 

General operating support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Catacomb was made possible in part with a research and development residency and coproduction support by the Hatchery Project, a multiyear collaborative residency partnership between The Chocolate Factory Theater, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University (MANCC), RED Arts, and Vermont Performance Lab with lead support by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and additional funding by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional residency support was provided by Gibney Dance Center’s Dance in Process
program, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and by a Creative Laboratory residency at MANCC.
Additional commissioning support provided by the Jerome Foundation. The presentation of Beth Gill was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.