
Part science lab, part disco, Roller Skating With My Cousin is a lively, dark romp in which synchronized roller skaters build a tower under a star-flecked mirror ball sky.
Combining the biblical Tower of Babel with the sexual revolutionary act of roller skating – while asking whether we can create a custom-designed universe in our kitchen sink and, furthermore, why did Ronald Reagan fail as the anti-Christ?
Roller Skating With My Cousin is a musical love letter from the future, on wheels, with utter disregard for logic and linearity… the 1980s have long been thought of as a time best forgotten… Then along came the delightfully whacked-out lunatics at the LIDA Project.
—Kurt Brighton, The Denver Post
It’s riveting, surprising, a beautiful cross…between theater and life.
—Juliet Wittman, Westword
4 ‘LIDA’ episodes
2010
2009
RAIN/ of terror @ BINDERY | space
The citizens are easily roused and swayed, as a culture of fear infects the city with the constant threat of execution.
2008
The Anonymous Mr. W. @ BINDERY | space
Inspired by Georg Büchner’s unfinished masterpiece, Woyzeck, The LIDA Project reinterprets the story of a young soldier returning from the horrors of war.
Untitled #39 | Dresden Dolls @ Bluebird Theater
We created this site-specific and interactive performance as an opening act for the Dresden Dolls – performed in the lobby.