NAUGHTY DAUGHTYR

By Bailey Nolan
May 16 -18, 2017

Set hundreds of years in the future, over population is maintained by selective breeding. The standard procedure when having a child includes the government, dictated by Murdyr & Powyr, ordering sterilization for children at puberty depending on family health. Draped over a landscape of pop remixes and poetic monologues, the story revolves around Mothyr, grief-stricken during her realization of having a child who is to be sterilized, and Daughtyr, a hopeful symbol of a new world order. The story is loosely narrated vocally by Daughtyr’s doll, Old Glory, and emotionally by an Orphyn. Each audience member is paired with an Artificial Intelligynce, a personal guide who aids in a modern translation of the show, cleansing the palette along the way. Three acts bookmarked by video dreams are pregnant with Irish accents, a dance battle, children singing, Brangelina references, fog, and the spirit of Christmas. NAUGHTY DAUGHTYR wails a battle cry for unity held by the generations of womyn to come.

STARRING
Bailey Nolan ~ Daughtyr
Peter Smith ~ Mothyr
Ariel Ash ~ Orphyn
Ellen Donnelly ~ Old Glory
Viva Soudan ~ Powyr
Georgia Sanford ~ Murdyr
Christopher Willauer ~ War Pig
Cammie Windley-Sanders ~ Artificial Intelligynce
Sixth Street Children's Choir ~ The Future
Costumes, choreography, and poetry by Bailey Nolan
Headpieces by Cammie Windley-Sanders
Videos by Ellen Donnelly
Photography by Charley Parden

Bailey Nolan is an energy artist based in New York City who demands your full attention. She has been hailed by the New York Times as “something Bob Mackie might have created for Carol Burnett.” Using voice and dance combined with an aesthetic language all her own, Nolan transforms a space and transports her audience literally back to the present. Laced with humor and littered with pop-culture, her work has been acclaimed throughout the United States and abroad in institutions including MoMA, Deitch Projects, University of Washington, Chashama, JACK, et al. Alongside Viva Soudan, she runs Buoy, a performative dance duo which uses the political body to enforce joy, and hosts BuoyRR, an annual two-week residency and retreat intensive for womyn in Deep River, Connecticut. For three years, Nolan toured with the Ann Liv Young Dance Company, performing in over thirty productions nationally and internationally at museums and festivals including Gessneralle Zürich (Switzerland), Steirischer Herbst (Austria), Inkonst Malmö (Sweden), New York Live Arts, Joe’s Pub, et al. It ended badly and she is still owed a lot of money by Ann Liv. Nolan is the founder of the avant grade post-feminist guerrilla performance collective BabySkinGlove, and the co-creator of the off-Broadway musical Katdashians! Break the Musical.