Wolfthicket 2015-2021

Wolfthicket plays with the traditions, rituals, and fantasies of the 'girls games' we grew up with (or didn’t), and how they hop and skip across time and place.

The methods and materials of this dance come from the hand clapping games, recess activities, make-believe, and satires of intertwining US American folk traditions. The show is a modular set of improvisations that I have been developing since 2015, but a lot changed between the 2015 version and the 2021 version. In the 2021 version sampling, chorus refrains, accumulation, percussion, and call and response power the music, the dancing, the set, the world. An experiment in citing the omnipresence of Afro Diasporic influence on pop culture, the show includes a playbill turned bibliography. -Lily Kind, Artistic Director of Wolfthicket