the bough breaks
39 minute film, created and performed by Melinda Jean Myers
Assisted Direction by Kurt Chiang
Music by Melinda Jean Myers and Stolen Silver in collaboration with Dan Myers
Produced by The Englert Theatre Production Team
Streamed online by The Englert Theatre, Iowa City, IA
Streamed online by signs and symbols, NYC, NY
Premiered at The Englert Theatre, Iowa City, IA
May 2021
Presented at signs and symbols, New York, NY
August 2021
the bough breaks is a choreographic work of autofiction, created and performed by Melinda Jean Myers. The show focuses on her personal experience of early motherhood by exploring the movement vocabularies, rules created, stories told and songs sung to raise, teach and endure a growing child. With the child absent from the frame, the performance emphasizes the quiet and loud life, the real-time, and the exaggerated flow of a mother in process; she is simultaneously always and never alone.
