Dracula: Cutting Teeth with Hungry Ghosts World Premiere

DRACULA is an interdisciplinary physical dance theater creation exploring Bram Stoker’s life, Irish history, Romanian folklore, and the evolution of vampire mythology. Created in VIM VIGOR’s signature aesthetic, blending robust physicality with daring theatrical and emotional expression, this work examines Dracula’s insatiable hunger as a reflection of modern loneliness. It also addresses the intersection of horror and gender, depicting how the genre eroticizes and consumes the female body. Set against an original sound score by Marshall Chadbourne, DRACULA captures the essence of human storytelling and the monsters we create to navigate our lives.

DRACULA features choreography and performances by Shannon Gillen, Jason Cianciulli, Tzveta Kassabova, Katherine Kiessling, Lauren Roebuck and Claire Schick. The work is set against an original sound score by Marshall Chadbourne with live music by Shamus Gillen.

This work will premiere at the Arthur Miller Theatre in Michigan before touring to Germany to be presented at dock 11 at the b12 Festival in Berlin, July 2025.

Tickets are FREE and available at the door at 7pm

About Vim Vigor
Founded in 2015, VIM VIGOR is a physical dance theater company under the artistic direction of Shannon Gillen and co-choreographer Jason Cianciulli. Conceived as a collaborative think tank by Gillen, VIM is a platform for gifted artists from around the world to come together to create cutting edge dance theater. Through its creations, VIM seeks to broaden the traditional dance audience with its signature combination of bombastic contemporary movement and theater in cinematic dreamscapes.