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BIOGRAPHY
AWARDS: USIA - Arts International Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals; Durfee Foundation Grant RESIDENCIES/
FELLOWSHIPS: ROCHELLE FABB is an award winning theater, performance and installation artist working in a theater of images that combines text, voice, movement, video and installation. Fabb has performed her critically acclaimed productions nationally and internationally since 1993 in 1000 seat proscenium theaters, opera houses, universities, nightclubs, ballrooms, alternative spaces and in trees, hammocks, beds and closets. She was invited to open both the Muestra Ex-Teresa Festival in Mexico City and the inaugural Performance Rodeo in camac in Marnay-sur-Seine, France and has performed throughout the U.S and in Denmark and Germany. Fabb was a featured soloist and toured with the Rachel Rosenthal Company from 1996-2000 where she gained critical notice and performed in both fully improvisational and structured works. Known for her unique, bold style of incorporating the beautiful and the grotesque, juxtaposing innocence and violence, and exhibiting a passion for the pathos and frailty of life, Fabb garnered critical praise for productions that seduced and transported audiences to unfamiliar territory. Critics have called her productions: "always fascinating" (L'Est Éclair), "humorous yet disturbingly voyeuristic" (LA Weekly), "riveting and powerful work...massive theatrical power" (Boston Herald), "extraordinarily expressive" (Philadelphia City Paper), "her outrageous style is more than simple entertainment...addresses taboo topics head-on" (Boston Magazine), "sharp theatricality and subversive, sexually charged and visceral performance art" ( Art New England). Most recently Fabb presented her critically acclaimed ensemble production LOVE (American Style) at Highways Performance Space. Prior to that she toured her solo work "At First Blush" to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Cleveland Performance Art Festival and Mobius in Boston. In LA she performed her durational pieces and performance installations "Mother of All Exiles, " and "Purgatory Lounge" at 18th Street Arts Center and Crazy Space in Santa Monica. In 2004, she formed Empire of Teeth performance ensemble with co-Artistic Director Michael Sakamoto. In 2001 she performed "Always, Already Beautiful" a durational performance ode to women who wear make-up to bed at Highways; "Let Me Call You Daddy" that flipped the hostess club concept on its ear; "Mother/Mothra," a duet exploring the complex bonds between women, in an installation environment with other performer live on speaker phone at the Performance Rodeo in Marnay-sur-Seine, France and at Crazy Space in Santa Monica. She also toured her latest solo "At First Blush" to RAW Temple in Berlin, the Performance Rodeo in Marnay, France and performed it at Highways Performance Space, the Bald Ambition Festival and the Knitting Factory Hollywood as part of the "L.A. All Stars of Performance Art." In 1999, Fabb toured her ensemble cast, multimedia production, "Barely Breeding: A Hysterical Pregnancy in Three Acts," to Mexico City as headlining performance of the Muestra Ex-Teresa Festival and performed it at the Women's Caucus for the Arts' L.A. Woman Festival, Highways and Espace DbD in L.A. In L.A. Fabb also appeared in "Don't Take It/Personally" for an audience of one-at-a-time at Crazy Space, LA and at camac in Marnay-sur-Seine, France; and in "cinema.one" and "The Look of Love" at Espace DbD, LA. Since 1993, she has performed her original works "Masonairy" (1993-94) and "Waiting for Limo" (1995) at the 1995 Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Mobius, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center and appeared in the 1994 Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival. In Boston, she created installation environments and performances for two outdoor mass art events, "Ghost Factory" (1995) and "Invisible Cities" (1994). She appeared in Michael Sakamoto's "Doctor Chi" at the Santa Fe Film Festival, Highways Performance Space and University of Arizona, Tempe and "Don't/Leave" at Watts Towers Arts Center. Fabb was prominently featured in Lauren Hartman's performance installations "Out of Me and Into You" at Cal Arts, "Fairy" at Side Street Projects and in the audience participatory piece"Give and Take" at Highways. Fabb was selected by the 18th Street Arts Center's Arts Education Program to teach performance to middle and junior high school students in L.A. in 2001 & 2002. She co-taught classes with Michael Sakamoto in the 2001 Artist-in-Residence program funded by the City of LA Cultural Affairs Department at the Watts Towers Arts Center in LA and in 2002 at the Institute for the Arts at the University of Arizona, Tempe. |
