COLLABORATIONS WITH LULU LOLO

LuLu's performance in Inwood Hill Park invited passersby to reconnect with nature and their childhood memories via the sounds of birds, so often drowned out in the cacophony of the city. More info on LuLu's special site here.

Inwood Hill Park, "Earth is No Land" Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles for "Shared Dialogue, Shared Space " Korea Art Forum, Heng-Gil Han Director. Online catalog.

Anabella Lenzu choreographed LuLu's autobiographical work, Dante, Opera, and Shining Shoes: Rituals of my Italian Immigrant Grandpa’s Life, at Dante Park (adjacent to Lincoln Center) in September. The opera, about LuLu's grandfather, Giovanni Pascale, featured LuLu, three dancers, an actor, and an opera singer.

LuLu focused on the fragility of the aging body walking with a chair strapped to her body, while offering a seat to the elderly invisible generation. Art in Odd Places project link.

LuLu, in homage to Mother Cabrini, Saint of the Immigrants, offered blessings and compassion to passersby on her pilgrimage along the path of 14th Street. Mother Cabrini sailed from Italy to New York City in 1899 to ease the suffering of the Italian immigrants. The performance honored the many immigrants in the world who leave (flee) one land for another. LuLu has performed as Mother Cabrini in Rome and Campagna, Italy; Paris, France; New Orleans; New York; and University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Art in Odd Places project link. Here's an interview with LuLu, discussing the project and her work.

LuLu performed as the "Gentleman of 14th Street," greeting passersby with the 19th and early 20th centuries' male ritual of tipping a hat. October 1-11, 2011, around Union Square, for Art in Odd Places.

LuLu commemorated the 100th anniversary (March 11, 2011) with a performance of Soliloquy for a Seamstress: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on the site of the original fire, on Washington Place and Greene Street (now the NYU Brown Building). In the play she resurrects young seamstress Serafina Saracino, her Italian immigrant mother, and the young reporter William Gunn Shepherd who witnessed the fire and wrote about the trial that acquitted the factory owners. To learn more about this tragedy and to support the Triangle Memorial, go here.

LuLu played Vesuvia, the Magician in her husband Dan Evans' play The Straitjacket, based on the life and poetry and the one authenticated daguerreotype of the poet/recluse Emily Dickinson, at the Metropolitan Playhouse in January 2010.

Carol Jacobanis (Emily Dickinson), Joel Nagle (Joe Josephs), Connie Perry (Widow Osborne), and LuLu LoLo (Vesuvia).

LuLu resurrected the spirit of early 1900's newspaper sellers around Union Square during the month of October 2009. She distributed copies of The Fourteenth Street Tribune, AiOP Edition, a recreation of broadsheets of the era which she wrote herself: Issue 1, Issue 2, Issue 3, and Issue 4.

38 Witnessed Her Death. I Witnessed Her Love: The Lonely Secret of Mary Ann Zielonko (Kitty Geonvese Story). Written and Performed by LuLuLoLo. Based on interviews with Mary Ann Zielonko. Directed and Choreographed by Jody Oberfelder. Performance at NYC Fringe Festival, August 2009. LuLu's info page.