PAULA HUNTER is a choreographer / performance artist whose weird, autobiographical work has entertained audiences for the past two decades. She began her career making abstract group dances but abruptly switched gears one evening when she impulsively improvised a quirky solo dance while telling a story about her father meeting his bookie at the car wash. She never turned back and continues to link her personal and always quirky movement style to storytelling that features her strange outlook on life, something she acquired growing up in the Midwest amongst a group of eccentrics.
WHERE SHE'S BEEN SEEN Lots of places including: DTW, PS 122, THE KITCHEN, DANCE UMBRELLA/Austin, Texas, NOW/DANCE FESTIVAL, CHASHAMA, SUMMER IN THE SQUARE, MOVEMENT RESEARCH, DIXON PLACE, RISD, Some theatre in San Francisco, places you've never heard of, a church basement in downtown Providence...
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE:
From Johnette Rodriguez, with the Providence Pheonix:
"Paula Hunter gets under your skin. It's not just the wild hairdos and costumes, nor the intimate venue of her living room (73 Summit Avenue, Providence). It's that her unusual blend of storytelling and movement is so trenchant and so funny that you can't get certain images or phrases out of your head."