Faye Driscoll

Faye Driscoll

Faye Driscoll was hailed as "1 of 25 to watch out for in 2008" by Dance Magazine, the same year her work 837 Venice Boulevard, was named "one of the top 5 dance shows of the year" by the New York Times. Driscoll’s video flip book dance, Loneliness, was featured in Younger Than Jesus, the first edition of the New Museum’s new signature triennial in which fifty select artists from twenty-five countries are presented. There is so much mad in me was commissioned from the American Dance Festival in 2010, also receiving support from residencies at Kaatsbaan, University Settlement and The Joyce SoHo.   She was a member of the HERE Artists Residency Program 2007-2009 and a BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist-in-Residence 2005-2007.

In addition to creating her own work, Driscoll is inspired by her collaborations with several theater artists. She is currently choreographing for Cynthia Hopkins new show, The Truth: A Tragedy, premiering at Soho Rep in 2010. Recently she directed and choreographed for Taylor Mac's 5-act epic extravaganza, The Lily's Revenge, a sold-out hit at HERE Arts Center in October 2009. In the recent past she choreographed for Jennifer Miller's Cracked Ice, the National Theater of the United States of America's Chautauqua! and Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment and Church.  

Driscoll was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers, performed extensively with Yasmeen Godder, and was choreographic assistant to David Neumann in his creation of The Common Foreign Language of the Red-Haired People with Mikhail Baryshnikov. She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts.

Choreographic Fellow | March 16 – April 31, 2011

You're Me

While in residence at MANCC, Faye Driscoll, collaborator Jesse Zaritt and composer Brandon Wolcott with cellist Emil Abramyam researched and began the development of "You're Me", a show about the ways we are constantly made-up and un-done by each other. Performed by Driscoll and Jesse Zaritt, "You're Me" probes and obfuscates the inescapable nature of relationship as the historical, contemporary, archetypal and personal crash into each other, bending and warping in one shrug, quarrel, or framing of a scene. Performed like a game in which the rules are constantly changing - full of play but loaded with the adrenaline of dire consequences - Driscoll and Zaritt seduce, role-play, posture, gaze and crave rapidly, sliding from the everyday to the uncanny and bizarre as Driscoll's choreography explores the slippery shifting of relationship - familiar and strange, humorous and extreme. How do our fantasies of ourselves and of each other create new possibility for being while simultaneously giving birth to friction, failure, and loss? How does our desire to be more than we are transform us? How do two bodies on a stage make meaning out of empty space embedded in the inescapable entanglement of the performance of you and me, all the while asking "Am I getting it right?"

You're me will premiere at The Kitchen April 12 - 21, 2012

Collaborators in Residence: Jesse Zarrit [performer], Brandon Walcott [composer/sound designer], Emil Abramyam [musician]. Slideshow photos by Al Hall.