My Dinner with Andrea: the piece formerly known as Torture Playlist

Andrea Kleine’s new work began as a dance about the music deployed in the CIA’s torture program. In despair, Kleine abandoned that idea and channeled theater shaman André Gregory from his 1981 film My Dinner with André, creating a new version of the famed dinner conversation as she seeks answers on how to make a dance about torture, or how to make anything at all. The piece emerges as an amalgam of fragments: fractures of complicity, futility, and desire.
Original score by Bobby Previte.
Lighting Design by Madeline Best.

Performed by Alison Ingelstrom, Michael Kammers, Neal Kirkwood, Andrea Kleine, Anya Liftig, Bobby Previte.

This performance is supported by the Live Feed creative residency program with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.