2022 / Performance
A collaboration between Maria Silk (Silk Worm), movement artist Frank Leasing, and butoh legend Hiroko Tamano, The jaws of all are red with gore explores the classic cartoon series Looney Tunes as an anthology of hunting myths. The show reimagines Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny’s charged relationship, using performance techniques from drag and butoh to reanimate timeless archetypes of hunter and rabbit, predator and prey and craft choreographic tableaus of bouncing bunnies and wild goose chases, flickering by like changing channels on a TV.
The jaws of all are red with gore asks: What happens when you put Saturday morning cartoons under the microscope? What can Looney Tunes tell us about violence, seduction, and present-day America?
What is up, Doc?
The jaws of all are red with gore
by Maria Silk (Silk Worm) with Frank Leasing and Hiroko Tamano
costumes constructed by Yaeko Yamashita and Amber Sermeno
lighting design by grisel torres/gg
Special thanks to Cornelius, Brittany Newell, and Wren Farrell
Supported by: the San Francisco Arts Commission’s San Francisco Artist Grant, Dancers’ Group’s CA$H Dance grant program, the Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency, Fresh Meat Productions FRESH WORKS! Commission, and the CounterPulse Co-Production Program
Maria Silk 