Karen Sherman: Soft Goods
CAP UCLA | 8 p.m., Macgowan Hall, Freud Playhouse
Karen Sherman makes performances that incorporate her background in dance, writing, theater, music, and the handyman arts. Her diverse background, as well as over two decades of experience working in nearly every facet of arts production as a technical director, production manager, stage technician, and scenic/sound designer informs each aspect of her artwork.
Though primarily situated in the dance world, her interdisciplinary work resists orthodoxy and is known for its inventiveness, wit and nuanced complexity. Her newest piece, Soft Goods, an examination of the lives lived backstage, illuminates the lonesomeness of theaters, the spectral beauty of a lighting focus, the choreography of labor, the labor of dance and the human hand behind stage art.
Created in collaboration with an ensemble of stage technicians and dancers, and structured as a live load-in and technical rehearsal for a performance that never happens, Soft Goods is a meditation on work, life, loss and occupational self-obliteration.
Event Date: Saturday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m.
Venue: Macgowan Hall, Freud Playhouse
Price: $29–49, $15 UCLA Students, $25 UCLA Faculty & Staff
The Freud playhouse is located in the northeast corner of campus, next to the Broad Art Center, off of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue.
Parking is available in Lot 3.