Bees and Beasts and the Horrish FishTales is a live art psychological tragicomedy exploring themes of pain, pollination and captivity. Set to Verdi’s Rigoletto, this spectacle follows an endometriosis surgeon who, after surviving a nightmarish shipwreck, finds herself trapped on an island with menacing beekeepers who want to use her womb to bring back an extinct species of bees. The absurd tale invites audience members to imagine Gilda’s dreams and nightmares as she stage manages her own death(s).
Upcoming: Resolution Festival 2025, The Place, London, UK — January 23. 2024. You can purchase tickets here. With performing artist Ruby Antonowicz-Behnan.
Previous Performance: Bees and Beasts and the Horrish FishTales Draft 1, Emergency 24, Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK. Maria was joined by performing artist Ruby Antonowicz-Behnan.
Residency: Spill Think Tank Summer 2024
Gal Musette - Je vois le ciel (Official Video)
Song by: Gal Musette
Performed by: Gal Musette
Directed and Costume Designed by: Maria Garcia
Cinematographer: Wes Cardino
Colorist: Matt Wallach at Company 3
Makeup and Hair: Mayera Abeita and Mac Amato
Actors: Rhoda Pell and Gary M Black
Animal Handler and Horse: Ashlynn Lawrence and Jason
Production Assistants: Jono Evans and Brandon Howard
Laocoön with Cabiria at 9 premiered at REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival in January 2021.
Official Selection, London International Web and Shorts Film Festival, 2021.
Maria Garcia’s Laocoön with Cabiria at 9 is a one-woman show led by Vatican Museums tour guide Cabiria, who in a nightmare, is confronted with a Trojan Soldier sharing her reflection. Brought to life by choreographer and performer Samantha Mohr, Cabiria’s obsession with the story of the Trojan Horse and the priest Laocoön sends her on a liminal journey of humiliation, pain, banishment, death, and love. Stuck between history and myth, Cabiria’s investigation of the Trojan war explores the designation of “foreign” bodies as dangerous, devious, and in need of discipline.
Director, Writer, Designer, Creator: Maria Garcia
Choreographer, Perfomer, Deviser: Samantha Mohr
Cinematographer: Wesley Cardino
Sounds:
Waltz by: Grace Freeman
Dance Track by: Wesley Cardino
Julia Official Music Video
Artist: Gal Musette
Featuring: Gal Musette
Director and Costume Designer: Maria Garcia
Cinematographer: Wes Cardino
Awards — Winner: Best Music Video; Best Director; Best Solo Artist or Band, International Music Video Underground 2022. Winner: Best Drama; Best Costumes, Munich Music Video Awards. Honorable Mention: Best Overall Video, Munich Music Video Awards 2022. Best Art Video, Prague Music Video Awards 2022, Director, Costume Designer
Press:
“Gal Musette drops morbid visuals for “Julia” - EARMILK
“Singer and songstress Gal Musette takes us on an oceanside pagan pilgrimage with the video for her new song Julia. The indie folk artist pieces together dark imagery that exists somewhere between Terrance Malick and Robert Eggers, featuring a montage of Gal on a scenic beach landscape in ceremonial costume, performing various acts of metaphorical prose. […] Like a character possessed, the video wonderfully projects the complicated world of Julia in all of her frantic glory. […] Gal assembled a strong team to bring Julia to life, including Director Maria Garcia and Cinematographer Wes Cardino. There is one telling scene in the video where two Gal’s lay in beach graves on the beach. Is Julia really Gal’s mischievous alter ego? See for yourself. “ - The Wild is Calling Us
Performance Artist
Moon River was created in the UK with Portuguese artist Catarina Moreno.
And further developed in the U.S. with Sasha Evans, Madison Page and Grace Freeman.
The work has been shown at the Green Room, and the Cockpit Theatre in the UK and Son of Semele Company Creation Festival with original music by Sasha Evans.
Ritualistic movement of death and mourning.
Photography by Wes Cardino
"Impart-Scenes of Abjection is a performance piece and a bizarre black comedy about death, exploitation, sexuality and religion...The performers in Impart-Scenes of Abjection are wonderful and the concept is strong." - Jeff Slayton, See Dance, May 1, 2017
Impart— Scenes of Abjection is a performance art piece made up of a series of absurd images and reflections of death and lust.
The rituals are performed by a Cardinal, Nun, Plague Doctor, former Miss USA contestant named MedUSA, a Cinematographer, and his Assistant. Performers travel in and out of the spotlight offering various forms of “art” in a terrifying, and comedic dream like world.
Concept, direction, design, performer: Maria Garcia
Choreography, devisers and performers: Samantha Mohr and Carol McDowell, with music by Wes Cardino and Grace Freeman.
Cinematography: Wes Cardino
Production Photos: Christian Baker
Devisers, performers: Laurel Jenkins, Chey Chankeytha , Meena Murugensan, Alex Shilling, Arden Plank.
