The Bessies Award Special Citation 2020 Honoree Jacqulyn Buglisi for the Table of Silence Project
Martha Hill Mid-Career Award celebrating Jacqulyn Buglisi 2024
Choreography: Jacqulyn Buglisi
World Premiere: 1998
Music: Tobias Picker, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Arvo Pärt
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Costumes: A. Christina Giannini
Slides: Douglas J. Sloan, Icon Pictures
Set Design & Costume Painting: Debora Maché
Narration: Cynthia Adler
Original Cast: coming soon!
Viva la Vida, I have achieved a lot, I will be able to walk, I will be able to paint,
I love Diego more than I love myself, My will is great. My will remains. (F.K.)
Frida is inspired by the life and art of Frida Kahlo, a heroic woman of extraordinary passions, extreme magnetism, and originality. An artist whose sensual vibrancy came from her life experiences; her childhood near Mexico City
during the Mexican Revolution, her devastating accident at eighteen which changed her life forever and her turbulent and public marriage to artist Diego Rivera. Buglisi conceived the text from the letters and diary of Frida.
Buglisi thanks: Instituto de Bellas Arte Mexico City, and Carlos Gutierrez of the Mexican Consulate for their permission; and Douglas J. Sloan. Frida was made possible by grants from The Greenwall Foundation, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Diana de Vegh and Dr. Rachael Yocom. Set Construction: Sebastian Lane Pärt’s De Profundis and Picker’s Old and Lost Rivers used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors; Villa-Lobos’ Bachiana Brasileira No. 5 courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Classical Masterworks.
Background photo (c) Kristin Loden Linder
Frida
For booking information or to request full-length video,
please contact Suzanne Konowitz: buglisi@buglisidance.org
Photo Gallery:
Choreography (c) Jacqulyn Buglisi. Photo (c) Kristin Lodoen Linder
Choreography (c) Jacqulyn Buglisi. Photo (c) Kristin Lodoen Linder
Choreography (c) Jacqulyn Buglisi. Photo (c) Kristin Lodoen Linder
Choreography (c) Jacqulyn Buglisi. Photo (c) Kristin Lodoen Linder
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