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"The Triumph of Innocence"
Composed by Nick Didkovsky for Kathleen Supové

Kathleen Supové - voice, piano
Georgia Ximenes Lifsher AKA Corvette Le Face - dance
Staged by Jeremy Bloom

"For The Triumph of Innocence, Nick Didkovsky combined Debussy's music with sex and death, mingling "in a trancelike world of burlesque and blood." Actress Georgia Ximenes Lifsher (a.k.a. Corvette Le Face) dressed as a Bettie Page-style dominatrix, languorously pulling up her stockings as Supové played Debussy fragments while intoning words from Page's reminiscences and transcripts of the trial of Lizzie Borden. As Ms. Lifsher slowly posed—sometimes wryly, sometimes with menace—the title became more and more ironic, until at the end, the pianist slowly sits down on a nearby bench, as the actress carefully approaches her from behind, holding an ax. Another hearing might be needed to grasp the details of Didkovsky's subtle nightmare, but there was no denying its impact." - Bruce Hodges

Performed as part of the Digital Debussy series at The Flea Theatre, NYC, April 2013

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