EXCESS
LENGTH: 10.5 minutes

COLLABORATORS:
CHOREOGRAPHER: Missy Pfohl Smith (SUNY Brockport)
COMPOSER: Abby Aresty (ESM)
FILMMAKER: Jesse Spielman (RIT)

NARRATOR: Doris Gould

DANCERS: Kelly Ferris, Sarah Gullo, Stacy Pottinger, Heather Roffe, Missy Pfohl Smith, and Christina Walsh (April 2 performance), and Sarah Gullo (April 22 performance)

MUSIC PERFORMED BY: The Cape Cod Experiment (Heather Braun and Kitty Cheung, violins; Kimberly Fitch, viola; David Gerstein, cello; Jonathan Ware, piano)

COSTUME DESIGNER: Sandra Cain

DESCRIPTION:
EXCESS is a comic multi-media work that explores American materialism and pack-rat culture which clutters our time, environment and lives.  The work will feature choreography for five live dancers, 17 nondescript wooden chairs, an original music score, video projection and ice cream