Around the Coyote Festival
Around the Coyote Festival

Featured in Around the Coyote 6th annual festival of emerging artists in music, visual art, theatre, writing, film making, dance and media.


9/7/95 - 9/10/95


Featured in Around the Coyote 6th annual festival of emerging artists in music, visual art, theatre, writing, film making, dance and media.

I Was A Teen-Age Judy Garland Fan - Potluck Prod - Singing. Dancing. All is found in this one man show about growing up gay in the South.

Top 10 No Shame Pieces - Moveable Feast Theatre Co. - Moveable Feast's Top 10 plays from the past two years are packaged as the "Greatest Hits" and the 3 to 5 minute scenese are acted, sung and poetried.

Dialogue Between A Prostitute and Her Client - Tantrum Production - Blunt and revealing conversation between a man seeking to lose himself in the fantasy of a strangers body and a woman wearing the armor of social reality breaks the fourth wall and involves the audience.

Three Short Plays - No Tortured Artists - A play about a Wren. A play about Worms. A play about a fucked up love story. Doesn't get much shorter than that!

Just Us Sista?s - Just Us Production - Three very different African American women on-stage performing poetry from the likes of Maya Angelou, Harry Bellafonte, Langston Hughes and N'tazke Shange in coral and solo form.

Desire/Dances - Frank Fishella - Fishella uses physical imagery to explore the dynamics of human relationships in three works about loss and discovery.

There is a River and Stranded - Donna Adler - Singer and guitarist providing original music for Domenick Danza dance performance.

There is a River and Stranded - Domenick Danza - Domeick Danza performs There is a River and Stranded to music composed by singer guitarist Donna Adler.

The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore - Paula Frasz and Company - A modern day dance treatment of the madrigal tale by gian Carlo Menotti.

Debra Laudau - Airdance Company - Landau's company uses contemporary and aerial choreography - including trapezes, ropes and trampolines - create unsual and excitign theatrical environments and stories. Three solos performed by Landau.

Sabine Fabie - Sabine Fabie - Fabie's entertaining and intriguing repertoire reflects a variety of influences from her European upbringing. Her choreography has been described as "intelligently crafted, inventively staged".

Mad Shak - Mad Shak - The five member company performs excerpts from The Exploded House originally performed at Links Hall and described by the Reader, "witty and engaging..heady and out of control".

My Sister's Wedding - Karen Gallrad - A film portraying the struggle in a mother daughter relationship.

Kisses for Todd - Marcie McDade - An experimental vieo on how to get a man to marry you.

My Name is Cherise - Chaney Stadtier - A personal profile of a drag queen.

Sunnyside Up - Natalie Sternberg - A short documentary exploring issues of identity, memory and puberty.

In A Daydream - Jim Andre - Music video featuring the Freddy Jones Band, creatively shot and edited.

Pores - Drew Morissee - An abstract analysis of one woman's conflict over her appearance induced by societal and media pressures as to the acceptable female image.

Does Free Will Exist? Or Am I Doomed to Repeat My Past Mistakes? - Sally Davis - A quick and comic video that addresses the effects of media and culture on the individual.

Barroco - Emilil Garcia - A wonderful combination of coor and curve with relaxing sounds, transporting the viewer from past to present.

Tribute to a Mastermind - Gretchen Jacobsen - A found footage montage describing the reaction Einstein might have had to not being able to work on the Manhattan project

Scherherazade - Denise Mustafa - A statement about how society forces women to adapt and reinvent their sexuality according to each environment they enter.

A Political Cost - Carol Kimball - A male artist uses the process of "lifecasting" on his models to normalize the image of women in the media and arts

Color, Texture, Emotion - Amber Roniger - A tale of a woman coming to live in the big city and how she acclimates to the space around her.

Trip Bad NYC - Amber Roniger - A short experimental narratiev based on one evening in the filmmaker's life.

Hot & Cold - Samantha Staley - An eerie experimental film portraying two women caught in an abusive yet passionate relationship

Bad Mommy, Bad Daddy - Todd Voigt - An experimental film exploring the torment of a young boy trapped within the confines of his family

Eat Me - Chaney Stadtier - A 1950s housewife tries to satisfy her husband's domestic demands with an original recipe.

Mona Skips Breakfast - Damen Furberg

Hot Coffee - Damen Furberg

Release - Luke McDowell - An experimental journey through sounds and images of the natural habitat of Chicago.

Any Minute - Marco Fargnoli - Suburbia and reality collide in this twisted tale of motherhood, peanut butter, and neclear family meltdown.

Running Home - Natalie Sternberg - A young girl learns about self respect from a drag queen.

The Fever Tree - Denise Mustafa - Two women who feel alienated fromtheir environment are drawn to the same place in nature at different times, resulting in a magical connection.

Author
Oba King, Kate Hoffower, Dacia Marani, translated Tony Mitchell, Jennifer Bill, Anthony Whitaker and Jerry Stevenson

Director
Denise Mustafa, Natalie Sternberg, Marco Fargnoli, Luke McDowell, Damen Furberg, Chaney Stadtier, Todd Voigt, Samantha Staley, A

Performers
Crystal Bush, Susan Marie McNabb, Nicole Tinnin, Anthony Whitaker

Tags: Festival, American, 1995