Performance
Materia
From 2018-2020, I co-directed an interdisciplinary performance group, Materia, with poet Joey De Jesus and multi-instrumentalist and vocalist B Taylor, mounting technologically mediated improvisation rituals at venues including Highways Performance Space (LA), St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery (NYC), and Basilica Hudson (NY), and more.
Videos: (Left) Full performance mounted with Sammy live in Los Angeles and Joey and B live in New York, interacting with each other and past selves across livestreams projected in each location. Video shows Los Angeles experience at Highways Performance Space. (Below Left) Excerpt of a rooftop ritual in Ridgewood, Queens. (Below Right) Full Harpyland performance at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery.
Other performance credits include evening-length dances with white road Dance Media, Nadine Bommer Dance Company, MADArt Creative, and Megan Bascom & Dancers, and more in venues including Abrons Arts Center (NYC), Dixon Place (NYC), Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn), Suzanne Dellal Center (Tel Aviv, Israel), and the European Capital of Culture Festival (Wroclaw, Poland), among others. For more see: CV.
Video: Irregular Star projection from white road Dance Media’s Neon Brave. Video and choreography by Marisa Jane Green.
“Roth’s transformation is, perhaps, the most memorable. Guttural hisses and grunts that seem to arise from the depth of her soul develop into hysterical shrieks and eventually an incoherent monologue. Roth addresses us as both a prophet and a rabid demon. She speaks gibberish, but it feels pointed, personal, her intense energy directed outward as though she is admonishing us. The experience is as terrifying and intimate as being yelled at by a crazy person on the train.”
– Theo Boguszewski for Dance Enthusiast