Juliana F. May
Family Happiness
Family Happiness continues Juliana May‘s decade-long investigation into body control and the complicated system of victimhood and perpetration. Pitting Post-Modern and Modernist choreographic strategies such as task and symbolism against pop cultural references of the 80s and 90s, this dance-text-song triptych delivers a space for culpability and catharsis.
Writer/Director/Choreographer: Juliana F. May
Performers: Leslie Cuyjet, Tess Dworman, Lucy Kaminsky, Molly Poerstel, Kayvon Pourazar
Lighting Designer: Chloë Z. Brown
Costume Designer: Mariana Valencia
Sound Designer: Tatyana Tenenbaum
Original songs by Juliana F. May in collaboration with the performers
Special musical contributions by Lucy Kaminsky
Produced by Shana Crawford
Family Happiness was originally co-commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater and Abrons Arts Center in 2023.
