OVERVIEW
The award winning LA MEDEA re-imagines Euripides’ prevalent Greek myth into a Latin-disco-pop-Womanist variety show. The made-for-camera live musical reveals not a dangerous immigrant— but an infinite woman that rejects the limited gaze imposed upon her. A unique theater to screen experience, LA MEDEA was originally directed, performed, shot, edited, and broadcast in real time for 25k viewers around the world. Performers and camera women play the characters, while in-studio audiences and home viewers— commenting via live chat— play the role of the "Greek Chorus." Embracing a multiplicity of cultural lenses, LA MEDEA confronts the historically prevalent image of the hysterical, dangerous, foreign woman, and offers a revolutionary female figure willing to destroy her world in the name of justice. Chaos reigns beneath the skin of a classic myth.
“A modern-day Medea is mythology’s 'nasty woman'”
Poster by Ryan Hartley
Photo by Darren Philip Hoffman
“Travieso’s La Medea could mark a new age of empowerment.”
Photo By Maria Baranova
“TRAVIESO FLIPPED THE SWITCH ON EURIPIDES TO CALL THE STORY’S BLUFF.“
Photo By Maria Baranova
Photo by Darren Philip Hoffman
“La Medea is the multiple faces of a feminist heroine”
Photo By Maria Baranova
“THE dismantling of Medea challenges the idea of a ‘dangerous foreign woman’, INSTEAD revealing an infinite woman.”
Photo by, Darren Phillip Hoffman
Photo by Luis Olazabel
“La Medea dates back before the #MeToo movement, before our current president was elected, before Dr. Ford told her story on live television. And yet, its message resonates ever more profoundly now.”
Photo by Darren Philip Hoffman
Photo by Ralston Smith
Photo By Maria Baranova
“A circular experience that redefines 'interactive'“
Photo by Ralston Smith
Photo by Luis Olazabel
Photo by Ralston Smith
“La Medea boils an ancient Greek story from hyper masculinity to the personal pain of one woman…An ageless power.”
Photo By Maria Baranova
Photo By Maria Baranova
Photo By Darren Philip Hoffman
“A spectacle that upends any attempt to pin it down.”
Photo by Darren Philip Hoffman
“Think Latin disco and Greek tragedy all in one, what else do you need?”
Photo by Maria Baranova
WINNER OF
Creative Capital Award
SXSW Panel Picker
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures via The Ford Foundation
Performance Space 122 RAMP
BRIC Lab
PRESENTED WITH
BRICxHome, 2020
Creative Capital, 2020
Union Docs, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2019
MDC Live Arts, 2018
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, 2018
ODC Theater, 2018
YoungArts Outside The Box, 2017
SXSW Panel Picker, 2017
Miami Film Festival, 2017
Dance on Camera Film Festival, 2017
Amherst College, 2017
*Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2017 *FILM PREMIERE
*Performance Space NY COIL Festival 2017 *SHOW PREMIERE
PS122 Ideal Glass, 2016 WORKSHOP
BRIC Arts Media House, 2014 WORKSHOP
FAN PAGE
CREDITS
Written, directed, and choreographed by Yara Travieso (co-producer)
Original music and libretto by Sam Crawford
Produced by Brighid Greene
Set designs by Brookhart Jonquil
Costume designs by Sue Julien
Lighting design by Tuce Yasak
Director of photography Pamela Giaroli
Assistant director and assoc. cinematographer Liz Charky
Original illustrations and mask design by Ryan Hartley Smith
Production manager Sarah Lurie or Stacey Boggs (double cast)
Starring, Shayla Vie Jenkins or Rena Butler (double cast)
Featuring, Catherine Correa, Tiffany Mellard, Erick Montes, Sol Koeraus or Niurca Marquez (double cast)
Music performed by Jason And The Argonauts (5 piece band)
Featuring: Vocals, Guitar: Liz de Lise; Vocals, Guitar: Zeb Gould; Reeds: Jeff Hudgins; Percussion: Timothy Quigley; Bass, Moog Bass Synth: Ian Riggs (double cast); Trumpet, Bass: Anthony Mascorro
La Medea is a Creative Capital project and was commissioned by Performance Space NY in partnership with BRIC Arts to premiere at the 2017 COIL Festival in NYC. The film was made possible through the support of AbelCine, creative produced by Jonathan David Kane, and produced by Dance Films Association, Brighid Greene, Galen Bremer, and Paul Galando.
La Medea was a recipient of a National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Fund for The Arts supported by the Ford Foundation. It was chosen for Performance Space New York’s 2016 Ramp program with support from the Jerome Foundation and Ideal Glass Gallery and was also a recipient of the 2014 BRICLab Residency.
TOUR & BOOKING INQUIRIES
For inquiries about the film and show, please contact producer Brighid Greene brighid.greene@gmail.com.