On June 1st Threshold Collective and The Maas Building are hosting a cabaret and fundraiser for Rough and Tumble Productions and their piece 'Good Grief!'

Rough & Tumble Productions is an interdisciplinary ensemble dedicated to presenting original, honest, highly-physical performances. These shows give voice to emotions and experiences that are often suppressed in the dominant American culture, including grief, ambiguous loss, shame, sexuality, rage, and longing.Our performances, workshops, and advocacy initiatives invite others into a space of awareness and acceptance. Through creative collaboration and the power of the performer-audience connection we integrate these vulnerable, essential parts of ourselves and our human experiences.

Co-Artistic Directors:
Lillian Ransijn  is a multi-modal performance artist who implores the moving body and personal storytelling to plumb the depths of grief, loss, and missed connection. Driven by what some call the 6th stage of grief—meaning-making— their works for stage and screen find beauty in the grotesque and humor in the ludicrous challenge of moving through and metabolizing everyday life/inherited lifetimes. They seek to see and be seen through the power, complication, devastation, intimacy, and immediacy of the body and through their collaborative relationships. A graduate of Emory University’s Dance and Movement Studies and Theater Programs (2005) and Pig Iron/UArts M.F.A. in Devised Performance Practice (2016), they work as a performer, teaching artist, and intimacy professional (t.v. and film).

Dylan Smythe is a lover of rhythm, bodies, people, and movement. He strives to apply lessons learned as a student of music, dance, and bodywork towards moving through instead of around/over/away from. Interest in play and improvisation has led him to work with creators such as Lily Kind as a member of the Wolfthicket ensemble, and with Lillian Ransijn in their 2020 workshop showing of Good Grief!. Following a decade-long passion studying the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira, he continues training in multiple queer-rooted Afro-diasporic dance styles, including House and Waacking, at Urban Movement Arts.