Dead Muse

… is a wry, heartfelt journey through the shadows that connect us all.

Blending dance-theater, physical comedy, and raw movement, Chicano and Jewish-American immigrant stories are interwoven across an enigmatic Los Angeles. Ancestral trauma and cultural dissonance collide with the enduring pursuit of a better life, unfolding through a kaleidoscopic array of American performance traditions—from the Hollywood musical and vaudevillian pantomime to firsthand Holocaust testimony. In this ghostly, genre-defying solo spectacle by Almanac, Dead Muse blurs the line between truth and illusion, inviting us to confront what haunts us and what moves us forward.

“Tender… consistently charming… an effort to cross the unbridgeable.” — Plays Unpleasant

“Diving into the sensations of life… not afraid to be witnessed, to be seen, and to be with us.” — thINKingDANCE