"Workout" 2007

Inspired from Wendy Wasserstein's short play by the same title. Choreographer Gary continues her creative interest in combining the performing arts of theatre and dance, and continues her exploration of Wasserstein's plays that examine the role of women in contemporary society.

"She's Exemplary and Exhausted" 2006

September 15, 2007
From Richmond Times-Dispatch:
"Gary drew inspiration from Wendy Wasserstein's 1988 play "The Heidi Chronicles"...Gary began brainstorming a Wasserstein-based play after enrolling in an acting class with Richmond's Firehouse Theatre Project. The monologue - a semi-apologetic speech to an alumnae association, delivered by the play's title character - still anchors the work, but Gary has added sequences of pure dance. She and two Richmond Ballet veterans perform the work. Telephones used as props and an onstage aerobics platform emphasize the idea of "busy women doing busy things," the choreographer states."

For Addie

September 12, 2005
Julinda Lewis, Review, Richmond Times Dispatch:
"The program's artistic director, Kaye Weinstein Gary, performed the evening's most intriguing work, "For Addie," a multimedia piece inspired by Adeline Detroit Wood Atkinson, the woman who built the Richmond Hotel in 1903.

Using a lavish period costume (designed by Sarah Grady), spoken monologue and photography by Maurice Duke, Gary transforms from a woman of means to a bloomers-clad figure stacking colorful building blocks into a tower as photographs of the Richmond Hotel gradually diminish in size. The well-crafted and informative work was accompanied by the music of the Pat Metheny Group and Claude Debussy."

Picasso's Women

Opened May 2003 in Barksdale Theatre's "New Works by Virginia Artists" Festival, May 2-24, 2003

May 5, 2003
Roy Proctor, Review, Richmond Times Dispatch:
"From exploring the choreographic potential of picture frames to dancing with cubist-flavored masks, all to music ranging from a Stravinsky Tango to Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose" Gary and Richards do some very creative things."

May 14, 2003
Jerrell Nickerson, Style Weekly:
"The saucy Cafe Scene is particularly good. In the Mask Dance, the women wear artist's canvases as masks and rearrange each other's facial features. And the show ends on a high note: in colorful costumes inspired by Picasso's cubist paintings."

PICASSO'S WOMEN

An evening length dance/drama production created and performed by Kaye Weinstein Gary and Melanie Richards.

Includes dance, dialogue, music, stage sets, costumes and props creating a stimulating evening of contemporary theatre.

Involved extensive research of autobiographical and biographical sources of individual women involved with Picasso throughout his long career.

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