FRAGMENTS
A multi media creation directed by Rene Migliaccio.
With: Patricia Becker, Collages by: India Evans, Butoh Dancer: Ximena Garnica
Ideology or myth consists of the deployment of signifiers for the purpose of expressing and surreptitiously justifying the dominant values of a given historical period. - Roland BarthesFragments is a multi-media theatre-dance production which examines women’s objectifications in patriarchal social conditions. This concept is experienced through deconstructed monologues of five female characters, performed by Patricia Becker: Klytemnestra (Aeschylus), Medea (Euripides), Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare), Ophelia (Shakespeare), and Miss Julie (Strindberg).
"Your adaptation and direction of "Fragments" is singular and outstanding.
Your talents as a creative force in the theater are truly impressive. The media you created is stunning."
- Bob McGrath, Artistic Director of Ridge Theater
The monologues are interspersed with the cultural, historical, social and psychological perceptions of reality and truth as it relates to the feminine entity, with texts by authors such as: Carol Gilligan, Kate Millet, Helene Foley, Sue Allison, Kaja Silverman, and Gerda Lerner.
A female butoh dancer represents the feminine principle in its primal state.
A montage of collages by India Evans expresses the feminine in its most personal experience.
Patricia Becker is an actress,
dancer and choreographer. She was born in Argentina
where she took classes with renowned acting teachers like Manuel Gonzalez Gil and Gerardo Gudino.
She took dance classes at Seminario de Danzas del Teatro San Martin from Cordoba and with other
well-known teachers. She worked as a dancer for the Ballet oficial de Danzas Israelies and for the
Ballet Oficial de Danza Contemporanea del Teatro San Martin directed by Emilia Montagnoli, both from
Cordoba, Argentina. She has performed as an actress and dancer in many musicals and plays in Argentina
such as: The five women of Sade, Moses of Egypt, The fiddler on the roof, Rhythmic Work by Eduardo
Pavlovsky and God by Woody Allen. She also did the choreographies of many musicals in Argentina such
as: Frankenstein, Don Mago and Arlequino.
She has performed in many shorts and feature films like: Music love, The voyeur, The story and
The imperfect ones league. She has also appeared on the TV series A pebble in my shoe.
When she moved to New York in 2006, she took acting classes with Alejandra Orozco, Robert Castle,
Michael Beckett (HB Studio) and Carol Goodheart (HB Studio).
She appeared in the musical: Gardel at the Spanish Repertory Theatre, where she also worked in
their production of Bloodwedding by Garcia Lorca. Other credits in New York Theater include: The
Black Continent, Pandora's Box, The guest and the void and La Celestina. She has also performed in
the short film: Slaughterhouse.
India Evans is a New York born artist who uses, among
other things, vintage erotic photographs found at a flea market
in Italy. She creates collages adding her own words,
drawing and painting. She received a B.F.A. from American
University of Washington D.C. She studied Art at the Lorenzo de
Medici in Florence and lived in Rome for five years. She had her
first solo show at Sala Uno in Rome. Her work was then shown in
many other galleries and Art Fairs across Italy and in several
galleries in New York including the prestigious Knoedler
Gallery. Her collages were published by the magazine Passages
and reviewed in Il Venerdi di Repubblica, Exhibart and The New
York Sun. One of her shows was also featured on RAI SAT TV. She
has three upcoming shows in New York and Moscow and
will participate in Art Fairs in Miami and Chicago.
