Artist in Residence: Gina Cornejo
Residency Run: Thursday, July 14 / Thursday, July 21 / Thursday, July 28
Please note due to the rise in Covid cases, we are requiring masks for these events.
WALK-UP TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
DOORS AT 7PM | SHOW AT 7:30PM
DIRTY LAUNDRY is an intimate, autobiographical, and immersive performance written by Gina Cornejo and in collaboration with Stewart/Owen Dance. The creation of fresh iterations of DIRTY LAUNDRY continue to be imagined and will be revealed exclusively at Story Parlor. Guests will be immersed within projected multimedia of DIRTY LAUNDRY the film and live cringeworthy-yet-charming spoken word from Gina, as she unapologetically discloses the irreverent unraveling of her marriage and divorce. This genre-bending performance aims to unearth gritty topics that are often left buried, and is both an invitation to open dialogue and an offering of solidarity.
Note: This performance uses explicit language describing adult situations.
Recommended for ages 16+.
@dirtylaundry_avl
*
Multidisciplinary artist Gina Cornejo lives in Asheville, NC. She is the daughter of a Peruvian mariachi singer and a professional jazz dancer from Chicago. As an acclaimed artist who embraces risk and honesty, autobiographical writing, performance, and sacred travel serve as guides to her creations of exposed storytelling.
For 17 years, she claimed Chicago as her artistic home where she performed on the stages of the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, 16th Street Theater and the Neo-Futurist Theater. As an ensemble member of Teatro Luna (Chicago, LA, touring), Gina contributed her original writing, performance and choreography to this multiple Jeff Award winning ensemble.
Gina is a Core Member on Asheville’s Revolve Advisory Board. As part of its First Draft Residency program, her solo performance “when sugar was sugar was sugar,” received a month-long theatrical run and her pandemic-born original solo piece, “Atmosphere,” was featured as a collaborative film.
In the fall of 2020, Gina teamed up with North Carolina-based Stewart/Owen Dance to produce a stage production of “Atmosphere” as a part of a greater evening-length work, “Still: Life” at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, which has also been reimagined by Asheville film-maker Michael-Jamar Jean Francois as a stage work for film. Most recently, “Dirty Laundry the film,” features Gina’s cringeworthy and charming autobiographical script with choreography, music, production from Stewart/Owen Dance. This ambitious dance/theater work discloses the irreverent unraveling of marriage and divorce and its multimedia companion film was created during a one month artist-in-residence at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts.