WaxFactory grew out of a collaboration between founders Ivan Talijancic and Erika Latta (MFA graduates from Columbia University School of the Arts’ Theatre program) who advance the company’s mission through exchanges and co-productions across borders and disciplines to create innovative devised work. Its founding members have developed a hybrid approach, investigating diverse narrative styles, visual/physical rigor, an integrated use of new media/technology, and site-specific work. Inspired by the momentum of feminist protest, Talijancic and Latta revisit their unapologetic and unrelenting heroine, asking new questions about agency, representation, and violence in the contemporary world.įounded in 1998, WaxFactory is an interdisciplinary group of creators dedicated to exploring a multiplicity of artistic visions, focusing on ensemble process, arts education and international exchange. In 2019, WaxFactory will celebrate its 20th anniversary by returning to their original production with new eyes, reimagining it for the 21st century. Their first formal collaboration, the work premiered and toured overseas, inaugurating their reputation as a company invested in interrogating the nature of gender, power, and performance. In WaxFactory’s performance, scene after scene, Lulu morphs her way through a multitude of age-old archetypes, methodically dismantling and exorcising them, one at a time. Pabst’s 1929 film and Alban Berg’s 1935 opera-challenged the idolatry and misogyny of the male gaze in the artistic representation of women, exposing its conflicting tendencies.
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Their production, inspired by Wedekind’s 1895 drama-as well as G.W. At the beginning of the 20th century, German playwright Frank Wedekind imagined Lulu as an ambiguous and irresistible heroine who embodied the complexities of a changing social landscape with sexual identity and power at its center.Īt the end of the 20th century, having just co-founded WaxFactory, Ivan Talijancic and Erika Latta turned their attention to this elusive and puzzling figure.