Art Talk: Amy Beecher on Glotech Cantata

Amy Beecher discusses Glotech Cantata—a performance of movement, sound, and still images that interprets the dance between women and influencer marketing. Taking the Glotech LED facial mask as its motif, the work meditates upon our era of aspirational social media, where women are both the authors and the objects of images. This site-responsive performance uses “paintings”—large printed panels of still lifes, masks, and color abstractions—as both props and a movable set that frame, conceal, and cast color onto dancers, who pit improvised movements against stylized gestures and words.

Glotech Cantata was written, directed, and designed by Amy Beecher, with original choreography by Tess Dworman and sound design by Ryan Gamblin. It will be performed by Hilary Clark, Jessica Cook, and Mariana Valencia at the Campus at Marlboro Music on Sunday, December 13, at 12 p.m.

Thank You

Glotech Cantata is supported in part by a Faculty Advancement Grant and a Research Assistance Grant from Emerson College, Boston, MA.