Title: Rich Woman Poor Woman
Premiere: Date unknown, West Park Band Shell, Ann Arbor, MI
Performers: Jessica Fogel and ?? (I think it was Lynn Slaughter)
Text: “Rich Woman, Poor Woman,” by an anonymous Chilean woman
Speaker: Elise Bryant
Description: This was a structured improvisation, put together in short order, for a performance in Ann Arbor’s West Park organized by Elise Bryant, who was then working at University of Michigan’s Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. The dance took its title from the poem, read by Elise Bryant. The poem elucidated the distances between the proletariat and the bourgeois.