Instead of re-creating famous ballets, Andrew Choe and Ellice Patterson are creating their own story and dismantling what ballet is and who is on stage to tell these stories.
ACCESS INFO:
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ASL and audio descriptions will be provided within the show for both live and livestream.
Click here for the set design written descriptions. Click here for the costume audio descriptions for Act 1 and Act 2. .
The Calderwood Pavilion is ADA Compliant.
About the Gateway Artists who contributed canvases to the show.:
Artist Bios
Farah Faustin
was born in 1994 in Boston. She began working at Gateway Arts in 2016.
Faustin has been an artist much of her life–she started seriously exploring her interest in drawing when she was 16 years old. Faustin’s favorite subject matter includes landscapes, patterns, and still life, based on which she creates drawings and paintings. Currently she primarily works in acrylics. Faustin’s work has a joyous element to it, and she creates it in the hopes that the viewers will experience that joy when viewing her work. Her interests outside of Gateway include Manga, superheroes, and exercising.
Faustin’s work has been shown at The Gateway Gallery.
Habib Plasencia
was born in 1976 and lives in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. He has attended Gateway Arts since 2008.
Plasencia is inspired by the movies and TV shows he has recently seen, and he loves to draw in his sketchbook. Plasencia’s work is very reactive to his surrounding; over the years he has developed a unique drawing style that combines elements of nature and existing anime characters. Recently, Plasencia has expanded his use of materials and has become more confident in his own drawing skills, moving away from anime as his main source. These new drawings are quite striking and have a resemblance to indigenous or aboriginal portraits.
Plasencia’s work has been shown in several locations throughout Massachusetts including the Gateway Gallery in Brookline, Drive- by Projects in Watertown, and Barney’s NY in Boston.
Maria Field
was born in 1974 and currently lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. She’s been an artist at Gateway Arts since 1996.
Field’s expressive mark making creates consciously designed abstractions, often reflecting upon or representing emotions she has difficulty expressing. She enjoys using bold color and incorporates mostly letters and vertical lines across the picture plane reflecting her interest in language. Field continues to observe and contemplate the work she creates and is able to reflect upon her progress.
Field’s work has been shown in Massachusetts at The Gateway Gallery, Barneys NY in Boston, the deCordova Museum in Lincoln and at the National Down Syndrome Society Luncheon Exhibition & Sale in New York, NY.
Patrick Shea
was born in 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts, and began working at Gateway Arts in 2015.
Shea spent thirty-five years of his life living in Winthrop, Massachusetts where he was very active with hockey, soccer, and the boy scouts. Since joining Gateway Arts Shea has actively pursued his interest in drawing. Often, Shea can be found working with paper and pencils, alternating working freely and using rulers—he creates works that are both abstract and figurative. Shea has also expanded his artistic practice to include both ceramic and fiber outputs.
Shea’s work has been exhibited at The Gateway Gallery.
Sidney Perry
was born in Alabama in 1943. He began attending Gateway Arts in 1983.
Perry is a quiet individual but enjoys making jokes. He is talented and produces an array of art and craft items, always in beautiful colors. He creates well-crafted rag rugs in Gateway’s weaving studio as well as hand-built vessels using very thin coils in the pottery studio. Perry’s paintings truly exemplify his love of color; his work is non-objective and often made up of undulating bands of color.
Perry’s work has been shown in Massachusetts at the Gateway Gallery, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Mall at Chestnut Hill, the DeCordova Museum, the Lincoln Gallery, the Zeitgeist Gallery, the Starr Center at Brandeis University, and the Concord Center for the Visual Arts. Additionally his work has been exhibited at the Waldorf Astoria in NY; the Bottisham Village College in Cambridge, England; James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia; the Very Special Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland; the Goldhaber-Fend Fine Arts Center Gallery in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He also received MENCAP awards in fine arts from the Ebensburg Center in Pennsylvania in 1994 and 1996. In 2021 Gateway Arts shared a virtual retrospective of Sidney’s work, Sidney Perry: Master of the Studio Art Center