The Sand Dog Cometh by Mary Pearson
Tickets: Email bookings@decoda-uk.org to book tickets £12 Full time employed or covered by organisation or institution, £9 Freelance or Part time employed, £6 In full time education or unemployed. Buy one get one half price when you book for this and for Life Forces performance at the same time
“Entertainment wants to give you what you want. Art wants to give you what you don’t know you want.” – DAVID CRONENBERG
“I want to give you something that you don’t know that I didn’t know that you wanted. Without knowing you, I want to give you what I want you to want.” – MARY PEARSON
Inspired by ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, the 70’s, unintelligible academic language, classic crooners, Rihanna, Scouse female fashions, dereliction and shopping centres, The Sand Dog Cometh offers: Virtuosity? Intellectual stimulation? Distraction? Provocation? Catharsis? Dear Audience: What is it you care about? A multi-disciplinary solo homage to the avante-garde, to kitsch, shtick, snobbery, trash and easy laughs.
Written, directed, and performed by MARY PEARSON (USA/UK). Visual collaboration with SOPHIE MALMBERG (DK/Berlin).
With support from Decoda, Liverpool John Moore’s University, The Bluecoat, Liverpool Hope University, and Arts Council England.
History
Developed in stages at Ponderosa Tanzland Festival and Con|VERGE residency (Germany) 2013, at the Bike Shed Theatre (Exeter) in residency with Jamie Wood, and at Physical Fest 2014 (Liverpool). Physical research took place as a ‘Making Space’ artist-in-residence at Summer Dancing Festival 2014 (Decoda, Coventry).
“OUTSTANDING IN HER RANGE AND CONCENTRATION” – TOTAL THEATRE
“IF YOU CAN IMAGINE A LIVE, FEMINIST VERSION OF A TARANTINO MOVIE – SIMULTAENOUSLY GROTESQUE, EXCITING AND UNCOMFORTABLE” – BROADWAY BABY
Biography
Mary Pearson is an interdisciplinary performance maker based in Liverpool, UK, currently touring The Sand Dog Cometh and FAILURE (& other opportunities for non-linear success), and teaching multi-disciplinary performance workshops called FAILURE Lab.
Mary has been a guest teacher of CI, Improvisation, Choreography & Performance, and Dance at Liverpool Hope and Liverpool John Moore’s Universities, and has mentored at Ponderosa Dance summer school P.O.R.C.H. (Germany) 2011-13. She now co-curates the annual Con|VERGE residency at Ponderosa. She co-founded and was co-Artistic Director of Fool’s Proof Theatre, whose work toured nationally and internationally in the UK/US from 2006-11.