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My creative process is a survival technique that alchemizes personal and socio-political demons into performances of intrigue and hope, for the audience and for myself.
I am always interested in the BREAKING OF HABITS, and this is
especially true at the moment, as I'm at the very beginning
of making the third and final piece of a trilogy. The work
has a unique form, as distinct energetically from its companion
pieces as it is thematically linked, It takes place in the
distant future: people have rendered themselves extinct.
A post-human creature inhabited by a spirit as old as the
universe explores the question: 'what are the long-term
effects of the human race on the universe?'
Current research includes: astral projection, reincarnation, natural history, the Big Bang theory, and the potential future of humans in relation to
the Earth and its atmosphere.
A storyteller: multi-layered tales require a multi-faceted structure, Hopkins mines her own history, writes songs, creates characters, and develops evening length music-theatrical works.
Grounded in larger cultural and political debates, the work collides autobiography and fantasy; viscerally provocative material and formal experimentation; edification and entertainment; documentary-like truth and extravagant fiction.
Shifting (and occasionally stolen)
identities
nervous breakdowns
narrow escapes
amnesia
remnants of history
the neurology of remembrance
alcoholism
musical melodrama
screwball comedy
the after effects of abuse
the malleability of consciousness
Hopkins explores these themes through a hybrid form incorporating: video, set, lighting, text, movement, and live music performances (by her band Gloria Deluxe.)
www.gloriadeluxe.com
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Born 1972, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Lives in Brooklyn, New York
Education
1995 B.A., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island |
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Selected
Works
with Accinosco (collaborations with Jim
Findlay, Jeff Sugg, and Gloria Deluxe):
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| 2007 |
Must Don’t
Whip ‘Um (premiered January 2007 at the Walker
Art Center in Minneapolis, MN and St. Ann’s Warehouse
in Brooklyn, NY; co-commissioned by Arts at St. Ann’s,
the Walker, On the Boards, and the Philadelphia Live Arts
Festival; national touring) |
| 2004-07 |
Accidental
Nostalgia (premiered March 2004 at St. Ann’s Warehouse
in Brooklyn, NY; national touring)
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with Gloria Deluxe:
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| 1999-07 |
Numerous concerts at venues around
the country
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solo:
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| 2006 |
Tsimtsum,
a piece commissioned by and performed at Dance Theater Workshop,
as part of the ‘Sourcing Stravinsky’ festival
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| 2003 |
Compress Your Dreams
(GAle GAtes et al in Brooklyn, NY)
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with Transmission Projects (collaborations with Tom Fruin, Anika Kristensen, and
Jeff Sugg):
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| 2000 |
Toast of Tears (Smack
Mellon Studios in Brooklyn, NY) |
| 1999 |
Hazard of Gravity (Smack
Mellon Studios in Brooklyn, NY) |
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Selected Awards
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| 2005 |
Bessie Award
for the creation of Accidental Nostalgia |
| 2004 |
Jonathan Larson Performing
Arts Foundation Award for Accidental Nostalgia |
| 2001 |
Obie Award for the collaborative
team of Mac Wellman’s Jennee Richee (with Ridge
Theater) |
| 2001 |
Bessie Award for
composition of the songs in Big Dance Theater’s Another
Telepathic Thing |
| 2000 |
Obie Award for
performance in Big Dance Theater’s Another Telepathic
Thing |
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Selected Commissions
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| 2005 |
Song Before
Love Songs (a post-apocalyptic requiem for the human race),
a composition commissioned by Bang on a Can |
| 2001 |
Walk that Lonesome
Valley, a piece using Tim Hawkinson’s Uberorgan,
commissioned by and performed at MASS MoCA in North Adams,
MA |
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Publications
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| 2007 |
Accidental
Nostalgia in Issue #3 of Play a Journal of Plays |
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Gloria Deluxe Recordings (self-produced)
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| 2005 |
Accidental
Nostalgia |
| 2002 |
Alas Alack |
| 2001 |
Devotionals (Songs for Shunkin) |
| 2000 |
Hooker |
| 2000 |
Five Songs (EP) |
| 1999 |
Gloria Deluxe |
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