copperhead
a dance/performance work exceedingly intimate and larger-than-life, copperhead probes the bonds forged during violence and imagines victim, aggressor and place as three strands of a braid, forever interwoven by shared experience. a disquieting meditation on the social experience of personal trauma.
with performance powerhouses joanna furnans, justin jones, emily johnson, hannah kramer, karen sherman, anna marie shogren, morgan thorson, and max wirsing
lights by lenore doxsee
costumes by sarah baumert
set by jeremy wilhelm and karen sherman
premiered october 2008, the southern theater, mpls.
performance photos by sean smuda.
click here to read an article by caroline palmer in the minneapolis-st.paul city pages.
click here to read an article by lightsey darst for mnartists.org.
Sources/Resources/Bibliography:
- UCLA Film and Television Archives
- Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
- www.mansonfamilytoday.info
- The Gift of Fear - Gavin De Becker
- A Father's Story - Lionel Dahmer
- The Basement - Kate Millet
- The White Album - Joan Didion
- Strange Piece of Paradise - Terri Jentz
- Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme - Jess Bravin
- Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi
- Will You Die For Me? - Charles "Tex" Watson (out of print)
- My Life with Charles Manson - Paul Watkins (out of print)
- Child of Satan, Child of God - Susan Atkins (out of print)
- The Family - Ed Sanders
- The Manson Women - Clara Livsey (out of print)
- The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten - Karlene Faith
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- Soul On Ice - Eldridge Cleaver
- Eight Bullets - Claudia Brenner
- Scars of Sweet Paradise - Alice Echols
- Anatomy of Human Destructiveness - Erich Fromm
