Collaborative multi-media performance with Canadian choreographer Brian
Webb, filmaker Tim Folkmann, and composer Eyvind Kang. Premiered June
1997 Edmonton, Alberta, with Western Canada tour. Toronto and New York’s
P.S. 122 May ’99. To view a video excerpt please click HERE
A solo directed by Steven Kent, with music by Charles Nieland, premiered
December 1993 at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, and shown as work-in-progress
at the Los Angeles Festival. Toured to Chicago, Edmonton, Cincinnati,
Louisville, and Huntington Beach, CA. McMahon and collaborator Kent (known
for his work with Joseph Chaikin and John O'Neal,) blend original texts
with an idiosyncratic movement vocabulary, rummaging through blasted buildings
of the soul, as epicenters New York and Los Angeles teeter on the fault-lines.
Torn between cities, lives and histories he can't reconcile, McMahon explores
how we carry our culture and history like an ill-fitting suit that looks
great on somebody else.
Collaboration
with LA-based performance artists Elia Arce and Keith Antar Mason. Presented
by Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), this was an explosive mix of sensibilities;
an intense examination of the many voices, histories, and postures we
embody in our divisive culture.
25-minute
solo, a response to the Persian Gulf war. Directed by Denise Taylor. Premiered
at P.S. 122, and later at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Highways and
Cleveland Performance Art Festival.
Evening-length solo premiered at Dance Theater Workshop, after being developed
at the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Arts Festival of Atlanta, and
the Barnsdall Gallery Theater in LA. Toured with P.S.122 FieldTrips. Music
by Charles Nieland. Directorial consultant: Louise Steinman
Solo
premiering at P.S. 122 investigating the host/guest metaphor through the
body, desire, and disease.
Group
movement/text piece for three performers examining voyeurism and power.
Visual design by Stan Pressner. Premiered at P. S. 122
Solo
exploring the idea of the longing for refuge through multiple voices and
perspectives. Premiered at The Yard’s Barn Theatre, Chilmark, MA.
Toured to Highways (Santa Monica), New Year’s Portland Festival,
Dixon Place (NYC) The Field (NYC)
Site
specific collaboration with Jacki Apple. Santa Monica Arts Festival.
Premiered at P.S. 1 Solo investigation of domestic arrangements and false agreements. Also performed Dia Art Foundation (NYC)