CASSANDRA
Susannah Yugler
CASSANDRA depicts the acquisition of a women-led talent agency by its parent company and the interpersonal turmoil that ensues. Inspired by Euripides’ The Trojan Women, CASSANDRA is a “satyr play”— musing on New York as a Trojan symbol coping with the weight of impending disaster.
Written & directed by Susannah Yugler
Movement made in collaboration with the ensemble: Nick Alselmo, Joel Dean, Robin Denzer, Lauren Glading, Aimee Grumbach and Ellie Quiring
Original music by Devin Shaffer
Dramaturgy by Oded Even Or
Costumes by Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen
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CASSANDRA was developed in part during a Baryshnikov Arts Residency, taking place at Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY, and with the support of Fractured Atlas and Materials for the Arts.
Using an avant-garde talent agency as an analogy for a kingdom, the play considers the value that contemporary American culture places on beauty, individualism, and self-promotion. Made in a unique style of deconstructed theater, CASSANDRA is the third play in a series of work by choreographer Susannah Yugler, which utilizes voice-over, pantomime, meta-narrative, and abstraction — offering an alternative approach to traditional dance-theater.