” Austin McCormick… deploys dance as part of a sexy, colorful mix of narrative and stage genres…Mr. Takacs’s pitch-perfect delivery of the tough-guy terse language, set against Ms. Careless’s writhing, arching-backed posing, feels resonant: man as brute and victim; woman as unobtainable temptress, fallen angel.”
- THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Expanding on a piece created during his senior year at Juilliard Austin McCormick draws inspiration from the works of poet Charles Bukowski, specifically the female characters prevalent in his works. Utilizing film, movement, and text he seeks to both examine and humanize the women in Bukowski’s work. Laura Careless inhabits these archetypes seamlessly showing that beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin. Playing with themes of voyeurism, sexuality, and objectification, Lover. Muse. Mockingbird. Whore. promises to be a thought provoking ,uniquely designed mediation on love and objectification -revealing what it means to be a woman in Buk’s world.
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