Oddities is centered around six women navigating a shifting landscape of memory, inheritance, femininity, and collective experience. Moving between intimacy, absurdity, strength, and play, the work creates a cinematic world in which familiar objects and gestures continually take on new meaning. At the center of the work is an exploration of the female compulsion to create and carry, an inheritance through which women have moved people, memory, and culture across generations.
Oddities
(2026)
Learn more about Gianna’s process and experience creating Oddities by listening to St. Louis Dancescapes Podcast: 26/27 Ep. 2: Gianna Burright with Arianna Russ, MADCO
“They smear their lipstick, freshly applied, as if wiping a stout from a beard, one of many gestures in a larger conversation on womanhood that is seated at every corner of the work. The tapestry of movement builds and settles back down into a refreshingly cinematic end as the dancers captain a rocking ship built of chairs, bodies melting eternally off the sides like waves.”
The evening expands into the theatrically cinematic world of Gianna Burright’s “Oddities” with the churning sound of an old film reel and the twinkling of a music box.”
Collaborators/Dancers: Delainey Bailey, Olivia Cesarano, Sidney Cowles, Katherine Kennedy, Gabriella Ray, Chloe Ryherd