A multi media project created by
Patricia Fox and Tal Yarden
in collaboration with Guy Yarden (Soundtrack) and Performers: Willa Carroll, Andrea Kleine & Sarah Michelson.
www.eyemag.net

May 3-26, 2001 Thursday through Saturday 8:00p
Tickets: $15.00 ($10.00 students/seniors)

A Dog and Pony Show is an absurdist meditation on the pointlessness of attributing guilt. This deconstruction of the Book of Job explores traditional views of responsibility and blame as Job’s material world and physical condition collapse. This play created for three women re-examines the biblical tale. A Dog and Pony Show tells the story of Job, a prisoner of conscience, a woman without guilt who suffers terribly for the sole satisfaction of her keepers: a dog and pony. Like most prisoners she declares her innocence and cannot understand why she is being punished. Her world is destroyed and even those who love her can not accept that she is blameless. No one suffers punishment so extreme without somehow deserving it. Dog and Pony are manifestations of God and Satan. They are characterized as a pair of thoughtless children who arbitrarily argue opposite sides of an ever changing battle to determine Job’s destiny. In an isolated cell Job toils to define a world she cannot control. She struggles to understand the point of her conviction until it no longer matters. Her torments end as suddenly as they began. Her love for Dog and Pony, however, remains unchanged.

Patricia Fox and Tal Yarden (co-creators) began collaborating in 1997 with a video design for Mona 7. In 1999 they created Corpus Exquisitus, a site-specific production in Dance Theater Workshop’s garage. Their work has been described as “truly intoxicating” (Show Business), “intriguingly eerie” (Sidewalk.com) and having “an undeniable, sneaky charm” and it “dissolves the boundaries between the performing and visual arts” (Village Voice, Charles McNulty). They have also collaborated to design video projections for Ivo van Hove’s Dutch production of RENT, Stephen Petronio Company’s Not Garden, Mark Wing-Davey’s Monkey in the Middle, LAVA’s Timberline, and Juilliard’s Gala Benefit 2001; and many fashion events including Holland & Holland, Visionaire Publications and TSE. They are partners, with Guy Yarden in the multimedia company EyeMag Media, Inc.