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Marcia Custer
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Two Divorced Moms (Moms)

Incorporating video, performance, sculpture, improvisation, and sketch-comedy, Two Divorced Moms (Moms) exaggerates and explores contemporary American Society’s insidious ideals of gender performance and consumer culture.

 

SPACEBEACH

An intermedia performance collective based on the Northern Coast of Ohio.

Since 2014, founding members Alyssa D’Amico, Beth Lomske, Joshua Goran, and Marcia Custer have been facilitating community-based performance and installation projects with an ever-shifting cast of artists and humans.

The collective works at the intersection of fantastical art and sculpture, experimental music, absurdist theatre, and participatory practices, just for the fun of it.

Most recently, SPACEBEACH performed at moCa Cleveland in collaboration with dance artists Akane Little, Emily Liptow + Mary Elizabeth and at the School for the Visual Arts at Kent State University with musician Matt Kurtz.

 
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OPEN Movement Performance Group

A radical dance community project facilitated by Marcia Custer

OMPG is rooted in community, creation, and expression through the body and the voice.

Performers span a wide spectrum of experiences, identities, and somatic training. We believe that everyone has a voice, and a body- and we can employ these precious tools to express new creative ideas and problem solve even the biggest challenges.

 

The Stacey Years

Between 2015-2018, Marcia Custer’s clown-child alter ego Stacey performed and toured extensively. The Stacey Years highlights Marcia Custer’s raw experiments with confrontational performance tactics, improvisation, and aggressively feminist approaches to embodiment, vocalization, and alternative sound technologies + composition.

 
 
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Are There French Fries in Heaven

Created and Performed by Marcia Custer
Produced by The Movement Project
Transformer Station
April 2018

With seminal texts “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila” and Judy Blume’s “Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret” as source material, Custer explores the intersection of sexualized religious iconography, spirituality, adolescence... and french fries.

i went down to the water and found myselfie there

Created and Performed by Marcia Custer
Live Music Score by Marcia Custer
Directed by Jeremy Paul
Co-produced by Cleveland Public Theater
April 2017

Using analog technologies to explore contemporary social media landscapes, i went down the water and found myselfie there is a one-woman noise-musical that premiered at Cleveland Public Theater and has toured to Washington D.C., Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Co-produced by Cleveland Public Theater as part of their Test Flight Workshop Series.

Kick the Can / 77 on the Dollar

Presented by The Movement Project
January 30, 2016
Created by Marcia Custer in collaboration with performers
Music by Alec Schumann
Live on stage sound by Elaine Hullihen

Light reflects into the possibility of the night sky, benevolent Barbies turn on each other, aliens scramble to assess the terrain, and 100 pairs of hands loudly pop bubble wrap from the pews of a church. Together, we all wonder, “Can we really grow up to be anything we dream? And do we all get paid the same to do it?”

Two Rooms

Co-created and performed by Marcia Custer + Alec Schumann
The Movement Project’s New Works, SPACES
April 2, 2016

An ongoing experiment: the musician as dancer, the dancer as musician. blur the lines. have fun. HOW DO WE MAKE ART? that is always the question.

 
 

infinity is still confusing (or: HELP! My Brain Hurts)

An evening-length mixed tape of work

Centered on the experience of growing up within the cultural norms of “girlhood,” infinity begins as a sleepover outside the doors of the theater (complete with a nail-painting station, a dress up closet, and mean girls snickering at you in the corners). The evening ends with a dance party on stage- for all those attending. Everyone’s invited…

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