Adrienne
Truscott has been performing in and creating diverse work in NYC for
the last ten years. Her neo-vaudevillian collaboration with Tanya Gagne,
The Wau Wau Sisters, was seen off-Broadway at the Ars Nova Theater and
at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, where it won Best Cabaret
2004. Adrienne was a founding member of LAVA (1996-2003), Sarah East
Johnson's Obie and Bessie Award-winning, circus-inspired dance company,
where she assisted the choreographer and developed and education program
which continues today.
As a choreogprapher or dancer, she has worked with the great Deborah
Hay, David Neumann, Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok,
The Bindlestiff Family Circus, Julie Atlas Muz, Murray Hill and Russian
ex-pat art pranksters Khomar and Melamid,as well as appearing in several
films, including John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus".
Her choreographic work has been seen in NYC at Performance Space 122,
Dixon Place, The Kitchen, The Flea Theater, at The Painted Bride and
The Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia. Her cabaret & circus
work has been presented by The Bowery Ballroom, CBGB's, The Palms Casino,
The Henry Fonda Theater (LA), The Soho Revue Bar and The Hippodrome
(London), and The World Buskers' Festival (New Zealand), as well as
The Sharon Osbourne Show and The Jimmy Kimmel Show in the company of
Ms. Gagne.
While her work spans many genres and versions of physicality, it is
united by the belief and proof that most things are funny.
>>mission statement<<
Truscott uses text, set design and physical vocabulary, found or overheard,
formal and mundane, to create abstract, existential narratives/installations.
Her cast of ‘trained’ and ‘untrained’ dancers,
the juxtaposition of which defies current vernaculars by insisting upon
a rigor, both physical and intellectual, that is sufficient to keep
both camps intrigued, creates a spontaneous and virtuosic pedestrianism.
She attempts to confound herself and her co-performers in to a state
of heightened awareness by making the hardest dances that, perhaps,
anyone could do.
