In 837 Venice Boulevard, director and choreographer Faye
Driscoll revisits her childhood while examining the
construct of identity and how we blame the world for our
problems. The act of looking to her childhood for
answers became a metaphor for the human compulsion to
place blame -- whether with parents, lovers, society, or
ourselves. This dance theater piece uses text and song
generated in collaboration with the three performers,
who throughout the work manipulate each other like
puppets, poking fun at how we are all constantly
telegraphing who we are, based on who we think other
people perceive us to be. Using physical manipulation
and humor, 837 Venice Boulevard paints the lonesome
emotional landscape of a neglected kid left to her own
fantasies and fears, while exploring universal themes of
identity, blame, and how exhausting it is to have to "be
somebody" all the time.