Cathy Gordon
p e r f o r m a n c e ¶ a r t i s t
Projects
Star in your own monster movie!
Children begin by creating their own monster personae with costume & make-up. Standing by is a professional photographer ready to take their “glam” photo to put it up on the big screen! Then, they can go straight to set where the director & D.O.P (director of photography) are waiting to guide them through their own scary scene. Afterwards, they can step into a private screening room to see their own movie!
Movie Monster allows children to deconstruct “scary movies” into the non-threatening building blocks of dress-up & make-believe.
Commissioned by Harbourfront Centre’s HarbourKIDS 2011
Photo Credit: Misha Snyder
Cabin In The Woods
Mist rolling off the water. Tall grass blowing in the breeze. Fresh dirt gently packed. Cabin In The Woods plays with iconic symbol of the wood cabin transforming it from a benign retreat to an evil house of horrors through the use of simulated atmospheric, sound and light effects. Created by Ulysses Castellanos and Cathy Gordon.
Commissioned by Casa Loma for Nuit Blanche Toronto 2010
Art house meets haunted house. Intertwining local ghost stories and pop culture horror flicks, Cathy Gordon and Ulysses Castellanos combine sound, video and performance to create a chilling interactive haunted house experience.
Presented by LabCab Festival at Factory Theatre, Toronto
Bouncing Bride: What Is Down Must Go Up
Join the bouncing bride as her bouncing groom on a mini-trampoline atop a ten-foot wedding cake. Cathy Gordon follows up her last endurance piece ON MY KNEES: a public divorce ceremony, with this light-hearted look at the “bright-side” of divorce. Cake design by Laird MacDonald.
Supported by The Theatre Centre and The Music Gallery
Photo credit: Dustin Parr
In 2007, Cathy crawled across Toronto in an eight-hour ceremony celebrating her marriage and divorce.
Photo credit: Craig Macnaughton
Whether a bar or an art party, the Love Note Lady spreads love in any environment. You are invited to send a message to anyone in the room. It can be anonymous or not, the Love Note Lady will be happy to deliver your message for you.
The Love Note Lady has been curated by Jess Dobkin, Rhubarb! Festival, The Untitled Arts Awards and The Inside Out Film Festival.
Inappropriate Dancing
Several times a day I am compelled to dance, but I usually stop myself. What would happen if I followed my impulses? Would anyone really care? Is this “repression” coming from an outside source or is it all really within myself? Inappropriate Dancing was filmed in 2006 on one of the first cell phone’s with video capability. Kyle Tingley was able to discreetly capture public reaction as I allowed myself one day to follow my impulses.
The film is intended to be accompanied by performance.
Originally commissioned by Moving Picture’s Anatomic Cabaret 2006. Recently screened November 2011 at Dance Series 8:08.
Photo credit: Kyle Tingley
Two girls, a guy, a DV camera and a whole bunch of guest stars, All Day Breakfast is a new approach to video comedy. With just a couple of crazy ideas and a box of cheap wigs, ADB kicked off way back in 2000 and has worked hard to increase its audience base both locally and around the world.
BLOODSPURT, DNA 1997 (performer, assistant director, segment choreographer)
Photo Credit: Steve Lucas / Performers: Sigrid Johnson, Darren O’Donnell, Cathy Gordon
Previously the Associate Artist of DNA Theatre, I collaborated on every DNA project with the Artistic Director, Hillar Liitoja, from 1993 to 2003.
During those ten years I also produced a lot of my own work under DNA.
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