Remember This!
• Upcoming
. . . Performances
Co-directed by Thaïs Mazur and Sherry Glaser
Performed by Sherry Glaser and Thaïs Mazur Dance Company
75 minutes in length
Music includes the haunting harmonies of Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble
This collaborative theater and dance performance, created by award winning actress and writer Sherry Glaser and veteran choreographer and director Thaïs Mazur, is a riveting, surprisingly funny, intense journey exploring experiences of women enduring centuries of continuous war around the world.
Remember This! arose out of a response to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2002. The many stories of women and children suffering wartorn lives inspired Sherry Glaser to complile monologues from Women on War Edited by Daniela Gioseffi that highlight the personal tragedy and spirit that rises from enduring the horrors of war.
Sherry Glaser plays Gwendolyn, a housewife on anti-depressants who makes daily visits to the mall to stay happy. One day she is visited by "spirits" that challenge her to look at the realities of the world. She embarks on a dream-like adventure, learning the truth of war and its effects on generations of women and children. Interwoven with dance, Remember This! is a feast of stories that will live in hearts and memories forever. Deeply moving. A voice for our times!
Director Biographies
Thaïs Mazur is currently the artistic director and founder of the Women in Black Dance Project. She directed and performed with her internationally renowned dance company based in San Francisco for 15 years. During her 20 years as a director and choreographer, Thaïs has received many awards including the Creative Work Fund Award from the Walter and Elise Hass Foundation, Dance Bay Area Choreographers’ Fellowship, and Award for Innovation in the Arts. She has been commissioned to create new work from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bay Area Dance Series, CAL Performances, Dance Umbrella in Boston and Dance Internationale in Cologne, Germany. Thaïs has worked extensively in collaboration with composers and visual artists to create original full-evening length performances and her work has been performed nationally and internationally including in Cologne, Germany; Novosibirsk, Siberia; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Boston Center for the Arts; Central Park Summer Stage, New York; CAL Performance at the University Art Museum in Berkeley and most recently in New York at Dance Space on Broadway and the United Nations Plaza. Her choreography has been featured in the WNET production, “People in Motion”and in the dance documentary (winner of 23 awards), Dancing from the Inside Out, which she produced and co-directed. She has taught at dance festivals and workshops around the world and currently teaches workshops and classes in the Bay Area and on the Mendocino coast. Since 1978, Thaïs has worked as an international journalist and her first book, Warrior Mothers: Awakening the Flames of the Heart, will be published in September 2004 by Rising Star Press.
Sherry Glaser is the Star and author of Off-Broadways’ longest running one-woman show; FAMILY SECRETS and her long standing comedy OH MY GODDESS! Her shows have garnered critical acclaim, including L.A’s Outer Critic’s Circle Award, South Florida’s Carbonell Award for Best Actress, NY Theater World Award for Best Debut, a Nomination of a Drama Desk Award and L.A.’s Ovation Award. Simon Schuster has published Sherry’s Autobiography based on her Off- Broadway success FAMILY SECRETS/ One Woman’s look at a relatively painful subject. Sherry a single mother raising two daughters, lives in Northern California. Her work has benefited Women's Shelters, environmental agencies, and the homeless. She has taught workshops in Radical emotional transformation and Organic Improvisational Theater. Her new works include. IN TOUCH WITH REALITY and THE GOOD NEWS. You can find more information about her at www.sherryglaser.net.