Rose: You Are Who You Eat ☆☆☆☆☆
GUGGENHEIM. NY
This brilliant energetic 75-minute nonstop performance often hilarious, thought-provoking, moving, with just enough audience perception has you wanting to see it again and again. John Jarboe’s story comes full circle on stage as she erotically tastefully strips down to her Calvin’s and I’m not talking jeans! Beautifully transforming into Rose the sister she ate before the eyes of the audience.
The performance is a satirical coming out as genderqueer. During a conversation with her aunt in 2018, she revealed that she was not alone in the womb but had a twin sister that was to be named Rose, but you ate her “That’s Why You Are The Way You Are”.
Through poetry, original song, music, over-sized umbilical cord, a Persian rug, musicians dressed in green ivy leaves covered costumes with the occasional rose she transitions into a beautiful Rose.Jarboe’s, Rose came about early in the pandemic, via Works and Process Artist (WPA) Virtual Commission who help finance artists through those uncertain times. Thanks to WPA, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and theDoris Duke Charitable Foundation who made it possible for Rose: You Are Who You Eat to be performed at Guggenheim Works & Progress museums rotunda theater.
Director: Mary Tuomanen, Producer: Emily Schreiner
Rose: You Are What You Eat : in CulturalDC Washington D.C. on April 1 and 2
Review: Michael Salmons Published interior designer NYC / Miami/ Costa Rica, Former owner of H55 Studio/ Scan design in Meatpacking Dist.in NYC. Loves traveling, spending time in Antwerpen, Copenhagen, Malmo
Labels: 2022, genderqueer, Guggenheim, John Jarboe, Michael Salmon, performance piece, review
