Nurse (2002)
Photo: Henry Grossman
Premiere: The Kitchen, NY, April 2002
Direction: Ron Bashford in collaboration with Rebecca Lazier
Choreography: Rebecca Lazier in Collaboration with Performers
Music: Fred Ho, J.S. Bach, Rachel’s, Stompin’ Tom Connors
Text: Rebecca Lazier, Richard Buckley
Voice Over: Price Waldman
Performers: Renée Archibald, Lillian Bitkoff, Rebecca Good, Jennifer Lafferty, Daryl Owens
Duration: 25 minutes
Development: Djerassi Artist Residency
Performed: Mobius, Boston, MA; 92nd Street Y, Harkness Dance Project, NY; American College Dance Festival, PA; Ted Hershey Dance and Music Marathon; Atlantic New Dance Festival, Halifax, NS; Surf Reality, NY; Columbia College, IL; Movement Research at Judson Church, NY; White Mountain Summer Dance Festival
Nurse is a performance satire that fuses spoken word, athletic games, surgical reenactments, and dance to reveal perverse and dangerous perspectives on women’s bodies, ownership, medical procedures, and the economies of care. Performers created body prosthetics of their alter-imagined beings that hinder and support and ultimately reveal.
“‘Nurse’ exhibits Lazier’s devilish wit, as dancers enact a wild, perverse escapade that explores not only female roles and the female body, but abusive relationships as well.”
