So I Married Abraham Lincoln...

Description

Visibility! Invisibility! Sex, Death, Insanity!
Randee Paufve and Paufve | dance present the premiere of
So I Married Abraham Lincoln….

A new dance about the life of Mary Todd Lincoln and the American First Lady body, featuring a hot parade of first ladies and a host of cross-dressing male ghosts.

So I Married Abraham Lincoln features an ensemble of seven women who highlight ideas about Mrs. Lincoln as a fractured self - a highly visible, often unbalanced woman who was objectified throughout her life. The work is based on ideas about Mary Todd Lincoln as the original First Lady body (she was the first ‘First Lady’, so dubbed by the Washington press) a prism-like surface upon which the American public projects adulation, fear and judgment, setting the stage for the love and mistrust of American first ladies throughout our brief national history. Aided by a chorus of ten additional performers, the piece includes other characters that will act as foil and companion to Mrs. Lincoln and help to contextualize her experiences, such as a gaggle of first ladies, ranging from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, and several male ghosts, including Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln’s sons, and a cadre of Civil War-era soldiers.

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http://www.paufvedance.org

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415.826.4441 (Box Office)