Mary Paula Hunter
Saturday, october 27
Mary Paula Hunter is a performance artist/choreographer/performer. Her work is often text-based and always quirky, emotional, and rooted in her own neuroses. She's been making weird solo performances since she can remember, inventing her own languages at the family dinner table as she slipped her overcooked food into an empty potato skin.
Talking and dancing or talking while dancing seems natural to Hunter, but so does silently exploring an environment such as the shadow land of Keithline's Lost House . Hunter has collaborated with visual artists Cristin Searle, Meg Governo, Esther Solondz in addition to Elizabeth Keithline and others. She performed in Fiona Templeton's work at the long-gone Art on the Beach produced by Creative Time and remembers balancing on a long line of stones in a work by John Von Bergen at Albany's Sculpture Park.
Dance Magazine's, Julinda Lewis wrote that Hunter's works "all make you feel as if you've crossed into a time zone where human motion follows laws you've never learned and may never understand." Hunter certainly trafficks in the unexpected—currently she produces work for the intimacy of her front parlor, squeezing audiences into her Providence, RI home to glimpse the strangeness of a vision rarely revealed publically or privately, for that matter.
