Off the Wall Streaming “The Women Who Rode Away” (Sat., 12/12/20)

Natalia Zukerman invites us to meet some spirited women from history in ‘The Women Who Rode Away.’ (photo courtesy of the artist)

Along with staging unusual new plays, off the WALL productions in Carnegie hosts one-person shows by performing artists from across the country. For our current shut-in season, the company presents singer-songwriter Natalia Zukerman online. Her show The Women Who Rode Away features plenty of music but is more than a solo concert. Using stories and projected images, Zukerman presents multimedia portraits of women who’ve inspired her. All are women who “rode away” from conventional paths to break new ground. In the late 1800s, for example, Jane Avril rose from the poverty of the Paris slums, becoming a famously unique dancer and actress. Artist Georgia O’Keeffe quit art school to develop her own style. (The Zukerman song “Georgia’s Mountain” refers to Cerro Pedernal, the peak near O’Keeffe’s home in New Mexico.) The Women Who Rode Away was video-recorded at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains, New York. Off the WALL, which has presented the show in person, streams the video each evening at 8 p.m. through December 19. (M.V.) 

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