performance art

Ultimate Catharsis 1
Created and Directed by Lily Selthofner
Edited Show Recording

Friday, March 29 and Saturday, March 30, 2024 in the Movement Lab at Barnard College – ninety minutes

Ultimate Catharsis 1 is an interdisciplinary, multimedia experimental performance art piece, with a dynamic cast of fifteen dancers, actors, and musicians — including both students and non-student collaborators — that lead us through a reclamation of Justice and Truth, amidst the sublime of love, divinity, and awareness. There’s a heavy content warning on this show, even though it is by no means entirely or largely negative, you should know that this show tackles a lot of heavy topics including sexual violence, institutional oppression at Columbia University, familial violence, and touches on some current events. While these topics are complex and painful, they need to be talked about and we are doing that through dance, music, poetry, and narrative, with beauty, towards providing a valuable and growth oriented audience experience, in the name of love. Thanks for being here and enjoy the show.



Cast
Lily Selthofner – Creator/Director, Actor/Narrator, Dancer, Singer
Justine Dugger-Ades- Actor/Narrator and Dancer
Desislava Kremenlieva – Actor/Narrator and Dancer
Adara Allen – Dancer
Nadia Benes – Dancer
Marissa Caldera – Dancer
Asia Gross – Dancer
Eirik Peterson – Dancer
Daniel Weitz- Cellist and Singer
Maria Shaughnessy- Harpist
Justin Shaw – Guitarist
Ray Baker – Drummer
Izzy Pacenza – Saxophonist
Featured Audio:
Rory Bricca – Composer/Pianist
Jane Meenaghan- Composer/Instrumentalist
Sophia Ling – Lighting Design
Shannon Binns – Lighting, Sound, and Projection Operation, Photographer

Time Stamps:

0:00 – Intro – Opening Pointe Solo (Lily)
3:58 – 8th Dimension: Poem and Dance
5:08 – Love Poem for a Flower: Monologue and Pointe Solos
6:48 – Science 1 (Astrology Monologue – 4/8/12 Houses)
9:45 – Portals (poem/dance)
11:50 – Anon 1 (poem)
13:04– Improvised Dance Solos
21:30 – The Story of How I was Born (TW)
23:53 – I am My Own Eyes / To the Creatures of the Earth – poems
26:33 – Water and Ducks: Choreographed Ballet Pointe Quartet
34:34 – Gestural Improvised Solo
35:37 – Hospital 1: On Columbia University (TW)
39:07– Love Poem for Time – Poem and Dance
42:40 – 8th House – Poem and Dance
43:51 – Skeleton: Choreographed Contemporary Quartet
48:12 – Intermission
48:27 – Redemption? On the Science of Storytelling (TW)
50:10 – Hospital 2: On Relational Violence (TW)
53:42 – Noise Section: On Infidelity (TW)
55:26 – Noise Section 2: On Emotional Abuse (TW)
56:56 – Hospital 3: ‘Emotional Catharsis’ (TW)
58:20 – Don’t Forget You’re Precious (Song by Alabaster Deplume)
59:52 – Eclipse Solo (Lily) (Song – Before the Beginning by John Frusciante)
1:04:52 – Dinosaur Section
1:05:50 – Versace on the Floor (Song by Bruno Mars)
1:08:24 – Following the String of Soul Map (Yearning/Yarning) – Dance
1:11:16 – Open – Palm Lines: Poem and Dance
1:12:22 – On Healing – Poem and Dance
1:12:51 – On Evil – Poem and Dance
1:13:39 – On Darkness – Poem and Dance
1:14:34 – Choreographed Modern Quartet – Strings
1:20:13 – Be Nice to People – Dance Duet (song by Alabaster DePlume)
1:21:30 – On Forgiveness, Love, Freedom, and Letting Go – Poetry and Dance
1:23:52 – On God: Talking to the Moon (Song by Bruno Mars)
1:26:23 – Love Poem for a Tree
1:28:13 – On Loss and Values – Poetry and Dance
1:29:32 – Tableau Vivant – Dance
1:31:43 – The Key, Bows