PRESS

The Miss Julie Project (2019)

“In Moore’s masterful hands, Miss Julie is a stirring invitation to wake up, an invigorating exploration of choice and consequence, gender and class, freewill and authority that you will want to lean forward in your chair to not miss a beat.” – Natalie Rine of NYC Review

BroadwayWorld‘s Stephi Wild: Antigravity Presents Miss Julie

Dear Diary LOL (2017 + 2018)

New York City Tour and Encore: “The funniest show I’ve seen in ages…The audience went ballistic at curtain call–and rightly so, this one’s a keeper.” – Jacquelyn Claire of StageBiz.com + “As audiences’ steady giggles and “awws” attest, Dear Diary LOL is as relatable as it is funny, inviting us to empathize with our younger selves as we laugh at their extremes. Beneath its hot-pink surface beats a tender heart and the universal queries of adolescence” – Emily Cordes of Theatre is Easy + “It’s a show that makes women in the audience reach back into the recesses of their memories and pull out painful memories or embarrassing interactions and try to be OK with them. Girls try to be so perfect all the time in a society that is only starting to allow them to be messy, complex humans, and we absolutely need more theater like this.” – Alicia Kort of Exeunt Magazine   |  Philadelphia Premiere: Broad Street Review : “Antigravity achieves more than nostalgic fun-poking, exploring a uniquely turbulent time of life with brutal honesty. + Phindie : “The text is deliciously naive, sincere, and honest, delivered with joyful reference.”

Nellie/Nellie (2014)

Broad Street Review praised the piece for its, “extraordinary physical performances” where the “fearless dance ensemble rolls, leaps, collides, contorts, and slams into the walls and pillars of the Broad Street Ministry’s sanctuary.” + Phindie noted Nellie/Nellie both for its “imagination and whimsy” and its ability to leave the audience with stimulating questions: “Is everyone just doing some kind of dance to keep their innermost thoughts from making them go mad? Are there any safe places when the mind is so deep and the depths so unknown?” The reviewer concludes with a “maddening desire to see what’s next for Antigravity.”

Yermedea Raw (2012)

The New York Times called Yermedea Raw “energizing and frightening” with “haunting images.” (Providence RI, Boston MA, New York City NY)

HISTORY

Kym Moore and Michael T. Williams founded the company in 2012 with a three-venue tour of Erik Ehn’s Yermedea Raw, culminating at La MaMa E.T.C. as part of Soulographie: Our Genocides (Lead Artists: Kym Moore, Erik Ehn, Ale Prieto). Francesca Montanile Lyons and Michael Costagliola joined the company for this first work, as Outreach Coordinator and Composer/Sound Designer, respectively. The company’s second work, Nellie/Nellie, premiered in Philadelphia’s FringeArts Festival in September 2014 (Lead Artists: Michael T. Williams and Michael Costagliola). Dear Diary LOL (Lead Artist: Francesca Montanile Lyons) premiered in the 2017 FringeArts Festival before playing the FringeArts Main Stage the following winter (Philadelphia), Ice Factory Festival in July 2018 (NYC), and New Ohio’s Fall Season in September 2018 (NYC). The Miss Julie Project (Lead Artist: Kym Moore) played The Chain Theater in 2019 and Legal Tender (Lead Artist: Kyle Dacuyan) played Ars Nova in 2019 and the FringeArts Main Stage in 2020. Antigravity splits its time between New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, RI and anywhere they can find where artists are bustling.

MISSIONS

* To generate evocative, visually-driven, intermedial performance through an evolving exploration of diverse subject matters, structures, and dramaturgies.

*To explore the boundaries of theatrical convention in form and content, while cultivating new frontiers in the art of performance-making.

*To incite and encourage new conversations about the collective human experience that challenge sociopolitical norms.