COWBOY

Set within a series of imagined backdrops, Dorothy Dubrule and Brian Getnick create a universe where their personally wrought personifications of dance and theater confront one another. Theater’s Blue Clown and dance’s Green Witch serve as containers for the divergent practices of the artists’ disciplines as they actively struggle to reflect, oppose, subsume and dominate.

Cowboy assesses the contemporary status of disciplinary derivation—and modes of meaning-making—while allowing Dubrule and Getnick expansive play within real and imagined realms of hybridity. Blue Clown and Green Witch tap into the accumulated archetypes that have inhabited their bodies over the course of their divergent training, and reveal the multifaceted nature of the relationship between theater and dance.

Created and Performed by
Dorothy Dubrule and Brian Getnick

Score created and performed by Erin Schneider

Costumes by Dorothy Dubrule and Brian Getnick
in collaboration with Francesca Nava

Dorothy Dubrule is a choreographer and performer based in Los Angeles where she is the director of Pieter Performance Space. Her choreography is made in collaboration with people who do not identify as dancers and has been performed in theaters as well as bars, clubs, galleries, sound stages and sports arenas. As a performer she has worked with Alexx Shilling, Alison D’Amato, Ann Carlson, Kate Watson-Wallace, Lea Anderson, Lionel Popkin, Melinda Ring, Milka Djordjevich, Ros Warby, Victoria Marks and Tino Sehgal. Prior to moving to LA, she was a member of DIY performance art collective Club Lyfestile and comedic fly-girl crew Body Dreamz in Philadelphia. She received an MFA in Choreography and Performance from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance in 2016.

Brian Getnick is an artist and facilitator of contemporary performance in Los Angeles. His performance work animates sculptural figures that are containers for research into the intersections of memory, history and mythology. In 2011 he founded LA’s performance art journal Native Strategies in collaboration with co-director Tanya Rubbak. From December 2014 to the present he has been building PAM, a theater and a residency program for performance artists who wish to make long form work. From February 2014 – May 2016 Getnick was the solo performer in Ligia Lewis’s Sorrow Swag, winner of the Prix Jardin, Impulstanz Austria in 2015. Currently Getnick is developing a body of sculptural and performative works honing in on the monument: the messages of subjugation and mythology and the object’s precarity in the sphere of contemporary American politics.