“She synthesizes minimal dialogue, stylized action, and music into compressed visceral drama.” — Village Voice

This work is an emotion-driven hybrid performance, which, through dance, text, movement, live music and video, examines this American dream that shapes all of our ideas, hopes and fears. Compelling music by the tgriffin coraline serves as the springboard for Marting's unique gestural vocabulary. The hybrid work expresses our horror and attraction to to the brutality, sexism, mythologizing, and magic of our dream and how it reflects the America in which we live.

Over the last 17 years, Kristin Marting has constructed 20 works for the stage, including 8 original dance-theatre pieces, 8 new adaptations of novels and short stories and 4 classic plays.  Recent projects include co-creation with Juliet Chia and David Morris and direction of a collaborative alternative musical, Orpheus, based on the Greek myth; also with Chia and Morris, she developed and directed Erendira, a hybrid performance work adapted from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother;  direction of James Scruggs’s solo work Disposable Men; Dead Tech a collaborative, site-specific theatrical collage based on The Master Builder  by Henrik Ibsen and architectural texts.  For the last 10 years, she vhas been developing a unique hybrid directorial/ choreographic form that features a "gestural vocabulary" used both as an emotional signifier and as a choreographic element. She is a co-founder and Executive Director of HERE, where she cultivates artists and programs all events for two performance spaces--including 8 OBIE-award winners--for an annual audience of 50,000 . She regularly serves on grant panels for TCG and the New York State Council on the Arts, among others.