Incorrigible Entertainment
(shows about incorrigible women by incorrigible women)
Incorrigible Entertainment (Janet Roston, Director/Choreographer/360º Director; Cindy Shapiro, Composer/Librettist/Technologist) have been a creative force since 2014, innovating work around female agency that blends new music with compelling drama, spectacular dance sequences, projections and state-of-the-art technology. Their work has been shown in venues on both the east and west coasts of the United States, as well as internationally at the Festival l’OFF d’Avignon, La Nouvelle Eve, Paris and has opened the International Theatre Festival in Casablanca, Morocco.
Their first work was an opera about the myth of Psyche (Psyche: First Upon a Time) which grew out of an artist residency that Composer/Librettist Cindy Shapiro secured with Cité Internationale des Arts in 2011. Their second ground-breaking theatrical work, Anaïs Nin, Unbound, centered around famed diarist and proto-feminist Anaïs Nin. It drew international attention and was supported by the Anaïs Nin Trust as well as Nin’s publisher and editor Paul Herron. Her Mind’s Eye (which had an artist residency at the Coliseu/Balleteatro in Porto, Portugal 2021) is their third fully sung/danced through work which utilises new and innovative technologies to bring audiences deeply into Hildegard’s mind.
Incorrigible Entertainment continues to draw to their projects world-renowned talent to support their vision and their ongoing mission to inspire audiences with stories about women who cannot be contained.
The myth about the dawning of human consciousness, and really, the bedrock and first ever, timeless princess story. Every princess story you've ever heard, every single one, can be traced back to this remarkable tale.
The life and times of the extraordinary 20th century literary icon Anaïs Nin. The performers bring the controversial author to life in a production that shatters stage conventions in the same way Nin herself violated literary and societal expectations. The dancers and vocalist unveil the author’s journey of self-discovery which took her from a naïve young housewife into the café society of Paris, where she emerged as an important literary figure during the 1930s through her life in the United States during and after World War II, to her death and its aftermath in the 1970s.
An upcoming animated full dome film experience, immerses audiences in the remarkable life of the 12th-century visionary, Hildegard of Bingen. This innovative film not only brings to life Hildegard's multifaceted legacy but also provides a unique, visually stunning portrayal of her visionary insights, resonating through time.
Dixie
Follow Dixie and her birth mother Doris' extraordinary parallel journeys from the Kennedy years in DC to NYC in the 90s, through Miami in the 2010s uncovering secrets and astonishing identity reveals along the way. Incorrigible Entertainment is very excited to be working with notable film composer Christopher Young on this project.
Vashti
She was always known as the "evil queen" in the classic Jewish Purim tale because she refused to dance naked at the king's feast. We explore her side of the story in this compelling opera.