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September-November
2004 Oswego, NY
Peggy Shaw will be in residence at Oswego State University creating a piece No Such Thing As Solo a performance where women re-envision/re-imagine their lives through dance, theater, and installation. This project is collaboration with Community Partner Services to Aid Families, Artswego, and Jonel Langenfeld-Rial of Oswego State University


June 30-July 25
2004 Wellfleet, MA
Peggy Shaw's To My Chagrin will run at The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Written and performed in collaboration with Vivian Stoll, it is a rock and roll lullaby sung to a mixed race, dual heritage, sweet island boy grandson by a mixed up, second generation in-bred, Irish, grand butch mother.


May 5-9, 2004
Seattle, WA
Peggy Shaw is performing her new show To My Chagrin at On the Boards Theater. Written and performed in collaboration with Vivian Stoll, it is a rock and roll lullaby sung to a mixed race, dual heritage, sweet island boy grandson by a mixed up, second generation in-bred, Irish, grand butch mother.


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Fall 2004
London England
Lois Weaver's solo performance installation, What Tammy Needs to Know, is a work in progress, What Tammy Needs to Know explores expressions of innocence and experience in popular cultural forms such as celebrity biography, burlesque, striptease and country music. It also investigates themes of class, age and education.


September-November 2004 London, England
Lois Weaver will conduct a professional development seminar called Everything You Want To Know About Live Art But Were Afraid to Ask. In November, Lois will be coordinating East End Collaborations, a performance festival for emerging live artists. These events are co produced with the Live Art Development Agency in London and have taken place annually since 1999 at Queen Mary University of London.


Spring/Summer 2004
New York/London
Lois Weaver's Guerilla Laundry is an event that will present three original videos projected onto laundry in three outdoor sites around New York City and London. Project collaborators are artists Helen Paris and Leslie Hill. Lois' film, Trouble with My Sheets, asks the questions; What is the effect of performing private functions in the public sphere? How would hanging laundry in public constitute an act of 'domestic terrorism?' Guerilla Laundry received a commission from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, NYC.


May-June 2004
England and China
Lois Weaver will be touring as collaborator and performer with On the Scent, a live art installation project originated by Helen Paris and Leslie Hill of Curious. On the Scent investigates the emotive and cognitive influences of smell, particularly how it acts as a trigger for memory and emotions. It is installed in a house or private living space and is performed to 2-4 people at a time.On the Scent has toured to festival in the UK, Canada and Brazil.


February 2004
New York, NY
Lois Weaver's solo performance installation What Tammy Needs to Know was presented at Dixon Place in February 2004. A work in progress, What Tammy Needs to Know explores expressions of innocence and experience in popular cultural forms such as celebrity biography, burlesque, striptease and country music. It also investigates themes of class, age and education.


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March 26-April 26, 2004
Taipei, Taiwan
Split Britches will be in residence in Artists Housing in Taipei conducting a three week performance, translation workshop with Women and Company, a Taiwanese women's theatre company. This workshop of 15 women will create a cultural and linguistic translation of Dress Suits for Hire, a performance piece that Lois and Peggy co-wrote with Holly Hughes and performed in New York and London in 1988. The resulting work with be presented at the Taiwan Women's Theatre Festival in Taipei in Spring 2004. This project is funded in part by the British Council. They will also be teaching and performing in Nantou, Taiwan and performing It's A Small House And We've Lived In It Always.


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