Home Birth is a dance play about two crooked women as they prepare for a birth. The secular and superstitious collide as archaic customs are enacted in a contemporary household, using dance to evoke the sublime buried in idiosyncrasy. Borrowing text from home-videos and British reality TV, the form is inspired by biological mutation, constantly morphing. Abstract movement rears its head then submerges back into crass-talking over coca-colas; prolonged moments of frenetic ritual are relieved by housecleaning, folk singing, and disco dancing. HOME BIRTH is an attempt to evoke the invisible biology that lines our prosaic conducts.

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"It's hilarious, inspired, and original, with an underlying rhythmic musicality to the sounds of water breaking." - Gay City News

Performed by: Heather Christian, Hannah Heller, Kerry Huang, and Elizabeth Rannenberg
Music by: Raky Sastri and Heather Christian
Set by: Courtland Premo
Light by: Laura Mrockowski
Costumes by: Wendy Yang Bailey

Home Birth was presented in tandem with Nellie Tinder's The Penitent Hours at The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, December 5-15, 2007.

Parts of Home Birth were developed through DTW's Choreography Lab led by Donna Uchizono, and an excerpt competed in the finals of the A.W.A.R.D. show, at Joyce SoHo in May 2007, but it didn't win.