U P C O M I N G
LA Screening of
tell the truth and shame the devil
Thursday, November 13 @ 7:30 PM PST
Join us for a special screening with popcorn, candy, drinks and Q&A with Zoe and dancers
zoe | juniper and Xiu Xiu started collaborating in 2023, sending rehearsal videos and music tracks back and forth from LA and Berlin. After a couple of residencies at The Moore Theatre in Seattle, zj and Xiu Xiu premiered tell the truth and shame the devil in May 2025!
In tell the truth and shame the devil, zoe | juniper and Xiu Xiu examine The Crucible, psychological thrillers, Jordan Peele’s horror films, and the backlash against the MeToo movement all as a lens for dissecting the pervasiveness of misogyny and the insidious virus of patriarchy.
We are thrilled to share the this labor of love, blood, sweat, tears and cussing with you! Join us THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13 from 7:30-10pm at Stomping Ground LA for popcorn, candy, drinks, puppets, incredible music, scary badass dancers and *maybe* some blood! It's not live but it's the next best thing! AND stay tuned for future touring dates...
Content Warning: This performance includes artistic depictions of partial nudity and references to domestic and sexual violence. Discretion is advised.
COLLABORATORS
Created and Choreographed by Zoe Scofield
Original music by Xiu Xiu
Directed by Zoe Scofield with Mikhaela Mahony
Video by Juniper Shuey
Lighting Design by Ryan Dunn
Set Design by Jennifer Zeyl
Dramaturgy by Mikhaela Mahony & Dahlak Brathwaite
Produced by Lilach Orenstein
Masks by Joe Seely
Props by Rebecca A Gessert and Sylvia Cziglenyi
Costumes by Kaye Voyce
Text by Dahlak Brathwaite
Performance by Mandolin Burns, Aden Hurst, Caitlin Javech, Melody Morrow and Sydney Donovan with Jamie Stewart and Hyunhye (Angela) Seo
Understudies Giordana Falzone and Dawson Walker
Production Assistance by Emma Lawes
Administrative Assistance by Neva Guido
Photos by Anton Karraa
From the Seattle Times:
“ Transforming pain into art requires a special kind of alchemy. Dancer-choreographer Zoe Scofield is an alchemist. (The) hybrid-dance work “tell the truth and shame the devil,” a tumultuous time in Scofield’s life becomes an unnerving performance. During a recent rehearsal, sometimes the dancers bore the weight of a life-size puppet’s lumpy, flaccid body. Sometimes they left the puppets behind entirely. Sometimes they straddled a puppet before removing and then donning its oversized papier-mâché-looking head themselves, assuming a visage that is somehow both neutral and grotesque. The effect is unsettling, as it should be.."
“‘... it’s about the patriarchal system they operate within. As she continued to try and make sense of the disorienting experience, she found herself looking at the whole event through the lens of patriarchy.… The point of the piece is extraordinarily complicated, socially and politically, which is right up our alley,’ said Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu. Xiu Xiu’s soundscape endeavors ‘to follow and support the emotionality of the subject matter, which is devastating, depressing and very intense,’ said Stewart, explaining that the score includes elements of experimental music and noise; darker, post-punk synth pop; improvised free jazz noise; and 'very spacious, kind of mid- 20th-century modern classical music. … There’s nothing relaxing or relenting about the dance piece, and we’re trying to reflect that musically,' he said."
-Gemma Wilson, The Seattle Times
