RED HORSE - NEW YORK

RED HORSE premiered in New York with performances at the HERE Arts Center in 1996.  The playing space was extremely limited, forcing Jenny to downsize the full-scale sand painting to accommodate a 10 x 15 foot stage.  Distinct parts of the original design were abstracted creating one horse with elements of all three previous manifestations—the red Kali demon in the South Indian, kolam-style of the Pullivar community, the blue horse in homage to Thomas Gainsborough’s “The Blue Boy” and Gainsborough, the thoroughbred race horse of the same name, and lastly, the white stallion under attack, (here by a boa constrictor), in the style of the great animal painter George Stubbs, best known for his paintings of horses.