Anatomy is shaped by experience.
One of the most common experiences in the realm of femalia is sexual violence.
Silencing and isolating, it is endemic of patriarchy.
Femalia swallows it, is shaped by it.
The anomaly becomes the anatomy.
With Anatomalia, Meagan attempts to track the progression of the body moving through states of shame, fear, repulsion, desire, curiosity and trust, seeking to release and transform the immutable energy from trauma stored in the body, to reclaim joy. Anatomalia is a series of choreographies installed in immersive environments, that the audience moves between, led by a chorus of local participants. Anatomalia creates ritual through performance and collective action and aims to change inner landscape and outer world.
Anatomalia is created and performed by Meagan O’Shea and collaborators.
For this residency, Meagan works with Cathy Walsh, Camilia Malenchini and Nicole Nigro.
And remotely with Laura Tack and Austin Thomasson as composers and Ruth Barry and Robin Leveroos as installationist and set designer.
(performers who have contributed to research and development: Áine Ní Laoghaire, Marion Cronin, Jade O'Connor at FringeLAB Dublin, and Ella Effendy, Lily Kane, Sarah Ryan, Áine Ní Laoghaire, Anna Fitoussi, Julianne Carino, Cathy Walsh and Nicole Nigro at Ponderosa e.V.)