46 Gordon (2025)

A collaboration with artist Nicole Cherubini

46 Gordon, Cherubini/Gleich. Dancer Amber Neff. Photo by Julie Lemberger

Danced by: Michelle Buckley, Kara Chan, Annie Freeman, Amber Neff, Ethan Schweitzer-Gaslin
Music by: Morton Feldman, Julia Wolfe, Cristobal Tapie De Veer, Johnny Harris, Alice Coltrane
Thank you to Michelle Buckley for creative research and costume assistance.

Il Napolitana in Paris in 1922 (a fictional woman of fiction). She was rumored to be Andre Breton’s lover and muse, but really was his editor, and most probably ghost writer for the Surrealist Manifesto. Her original text was without gender and from the position of “WE”, but it was swiftly changed by Breton to be published (and to, of course, serve his own good). She was friends with Virginia Woolf. Together, in the sitting room at No. 46, they collaborated on the structure and format of A Room of One’s Own, using the concept of lecture as performance and tapping into an academic use of oral history. She always wore a fabulous hat.

Woolf recalled in her 1922 essay, there was no escaping the fact that everything had started at No. 46. ‘These Thursday evenings’, she wrote, ‘were as far as I am concerned the germ from which sprang all that has since come to be called by the name of Bloomsbury. And the headquarters of Bloomsbury have always been in Gordon Square.’