area woman

AreaWoman_Holon_18.jpg

Area Woman is a performance collective that tangles dance, music, and theatre

We create inquisitive spaces for audience-artist encounters. Area Woman enthusiastically explores the role of art and imagination in community using humor, task, and tradition to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible.

Area woman is: Claire Alrich, Sarah Lewitus, & Sadie Leigh

Instagram: @areawomandc

Email: areawomandc@gmail.com

past shows

area woman lumbers about (2022)

WHAT: A promenade dance in which the artists and audience make their way through a largely un-maintained square block of woods, in order to celebrate this dilapidated public green space, and also to share a dance.


WHY: For art. For friendship (which Area Woman has found to be hopelessly tangled with the art process). For sharing the strange and magical space that is Fort Bunker Hill park. For taking a little walk in the woods at twilight on a May evening. For the possibility of togetherness in the tenuous project of live performance.

Video Block
Double-click here to add a video by URL or embed code. Learn more

EPHEMERAL FATALE (2019)

IMG_0872.jpg

Join Area Woman as they unfold and unravel, weaving through a world where the end is the beginning and the beginning is the end.

Ephemeral Fatale starts with an exit and ends with an arrival. Area Woman sifts through space, time, and expectations with their signature brand of trust-building meta-moments. Through meticulous movement, sonic worldbuilding, and murder mystery, they invite you to peek in from the outside, or come in for a drink.

12 performances

10 days

8 venues around dc

DATES AND LOCATION INFORMATION

“Ephemeral Fatale, a performance piece that evokes feelings of connection, acceptance, intrigue, and the complexities of human relationships. Everyone in the audience seemed intrigued and invested. Overall, an impressive job by these four as they capture the imagination and expand the meaning of live entertainment.”

  • - Kendall Mostafavi, DC Metro Theater Arts

Holon! (2018)

In 2018 Area Woman premiered “Holon!” - a subtly irreverent, casually tender comedydramadance - as part of the Capital Fringe Festival

AreaWoman_Promo01.jpg

Holon! is a performance experience inspired by and in spite of ceremony and tradition, made for people who don’t know they like dance (or, for people who already like it very much.) Audiences may or may not be asked to do some of the following: Eat a snack, plant a tree, rearrange the furniture, tune a piano, put out a fire, catch a falling body, proofread an email, hold a prop, sing along, bake a loaf of bread or take a stranger’s hand.

Holon! was called a “playful performance experience” by the Washington Post), and was named one of DC Theatre Scene’s “24 Favorite Stage Moments of 2018

Holon! trailer