The Davis Sisters, Alexander Davis and Joy Davis, were mistaken for a married couple in 2015, and have been spending the last 6 years unsuccessfully trying to convince people that they are not married, but are kind of related…
At the threshold of dance, theater, comedy, and installation, TDS create experiences in which performers and audiences are invited to contemplate humanity, enjoy absurdity, and delight in physical and verbal articulation. Drawing from pop culture and the pedestrian, TDS develop work that displays the theatricality of everyday life and imagery from less logical dreamscapes of the imagination. By illuminating underrepresented queer narratives, they delve into topics about love, hope, and memory which transcend boundaries and make space for individual connection.
Through rigorous imagination, movement improvisation and the ridiculous, they courageously and insightfully dare to create scenarios in which they perform magnified versions of themselves.
The Davis Sisters were named 2018 Schonberg [Boston] Fellows at The Yard for an Offshore Creation Residency where they created and premiered the evening-length dance theater duet in collaboration with composer Eric Mullis, “Junk Drawer; or The Inherited Utilitarian Archive of The Future.” They were honored to be selected for the inaugural New England Dance on Tour project for the 2019-2020 season; and received the first “Creative Residency: Dance in the Galleries” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to create a new work in the Henri de-Toulouse Lautrec exhibit Lautrec and the Stars of Paris.
TDS were among the first Artists-in-Residence at Studio@550 in Cambridge; and are honored to be named Run of the Mills Artists for the 2019-2020 Season at Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), where they premiered a new evening length work “The Davis Sisters Are Absolutely in Love All the Time Always and Forever: A Romantic Comedy.”
BCA commissioned TDS to create a digital variety show as the reality of the pandemic closed theaters all over the world. “Summer Sundays with The Sisters” featured over 50 diverse Boston-based artists over 3 episodes in August 2020.
The Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University supported TDS during the pandemic for the co-production of “The LAST Wednesday of Winter at Wesleyan” featuring NEDoT artists and special Wesleyan guests. Premiering via YouTube Live on 3/17/21 @7pm EST.
Further residency, support, & performance presentations:
The Boston Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; Starlight Stage, Central Square; Urbanity X Series + Marimba Cabaret; Redfern Center for the Arts, Keene State College; Goodyear Arts- Avant Goodyear Artists.