“Cooking with My Ancestors: Easter” with BAC Artist-in-Residence Margaret Liston

“Cooking with My Ancestors: Easter” 
with BAC Artist-in-Residence Margaret Liston
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 7 – 8:30PM

A theatrical production, “Cooking with My Ancestors: Easter” is the second installment of Margaret Liston’s food memoir “Cooking with The Ammaccapanes.” She recreates stories and memories of the Easter holidays spent with her big Italian Family in St. Louis, as she cooks a recipe or two from the book. These recipes and traditions have been handed down from her Grandparents, Aunts and Mother as the food they shared together throughout the years. The audience will be welcomed to try these tasty morsels and share their Family traditions and foods in a Talk Back after the show. 

Video from 2022 Residency Community Program titled “Cooking with My Ancestors”

About Margaret
Margaret Liston’s interest in movement started the day she climbed out of her crib leading to tree climbing, gymnastics and sports, Modern Dance (MFA, NYU Tisch; Bill T. Jones Dance), mime, aerial dance (Multigravitational Aerodance Group), yoga, Thai Body Work and Pilates. Movement brought her to her first love, theatre (BA, Theatre, Bowling Green) opening the world of Stagecraft and Technical Design.

Experience includes Summer Stock (Ohio), Children’s Theatre Co. (NJ), Opera (Ohio; Saratoga), Off Broadway (Ohio Theatre), Festivals (Copenhagen International Dance; Midtown International Theatre and Solo Lab, NY; Philly Fringe) and choreographing a Community March/Dance for V-Day/OneBillionRising.

Margaret conceived/wrote/performed two solo shows – MentalPause and A Mama Story – integrating dance, storytelling and theatre; earned a residency at Space on Ryder Farm; and a Commission from The Rivertown Artists Workshop (RAW) (Sleepy Hollow), receiving the “Sleepies” Award for Choreography.

At Bethany she created Cooking With My Ancestors/Christmas, inspired by her memoir, “Cooking with The Ammaccapanes – My Food Memoir,” which she continues to perform.

Owner, Tappan Zee Body Works, Pilates in Sleepy Hollow.

This event is a Fall Multidisciplinary Residency Community Program. As part of a residency at BAC, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather, engage, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partner