Rock & Mortar 2019

December 4-8, 2019

Rock & Mortar was an immersive, multidisciplinary performance featuring an all-woman cast and their stories of gender, ancestry, religion and politics. In this dance/theatre/song adventure, audiences were invited to explore the venue’s physical landmarks amidst an extraordinary collection of intimate vignettes and sensory installations. Photos by Robbie Sweeny.

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…an inclusive, and expansive, often dreamlike journey that transcends time, place and ethnicity…a hive of energy, one that pays justice to the work women do, their frustrations – and their dreams, too.

Leslie KatzSF Examiner

There is something orgiastic in this work, and the through-line transmitted is the presence through the eons of female bodies as sites of labor, of healing, and of madness. The stories sung and told often feature grandmothers – their remedies, their physicality, their enduring offering.

Elizabeth Costello