KRISSY HARRIS
they | them
performer | choreographer | educator
Zoso
Zoso was the beginning of identifying research interests in rock and roll ideology, feminism, and sociocultural phenomena. I was looking at the birth of MTV in the 1980s, and how the network constructed femininity and images of women. The research began with me questioning my love of rock and roll music and icons, as I was observing the genre’s centering of White heterosexual males and misogony. I wondered, Where are all the women, how did they identify, what were they living and moving through? Within these questions, I was examining notions of womanhood, and the ways in which my familial cultural history connects to my fascination with rock and roll.
Excerpt from MFA Choreography Showing
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park
November 19, 2018
Choreography/Performance: Krissy Harris
Lighting/Videography: Paul Jackson
Music: Michael Wall, Ozzy Osbourne
Excerpts from an informal showing at the
University of Maryland, College Park
August 31, 2018
Choreography/Performance: Krissy Harris
Music: "Mony Mony" by Tommy & the Shondells
Section of movement score research for the work, and working with video editing effects.
Choreographer/Performer/Video Editing: Krissy Harris
Sound:
Live accompaniment by David Schulman