MIDSEASON
Work-in-Progress Showing
Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA
March 21-22, 2026
World Premiere TBD
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​​​Written & Created by Sara Juli
Performed by Sara Juli and Tyler Leif
Sound Design by Tyler Leif
Costume Design by Carol Farrell
Lighting Design by Jason Ries
Music by Max Richter
Recomposed: Vivaldi’s
“The Four Seasons” selections
Videography by Bill Parsons/Maximal Image
Administrative Associate and Promo Reel by Delaney McDonough
Photos by Olivia Moon Photography
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“Sara Juli’s Midseason” is an evening-length dance-theater comedy exploring midlife, a time that stretches well past halfway when you're no longer emerging but suspended in the messy abundance of reflection. This solo work centers women in midlife finding agency in a culture that renders aging women invisible. Set to Max Richter's recomposition of Vivaldi's “The Four Seasons”, this work reimagines these iconic male-created compositions through a middle-aged woman's lens. It reclaims pleasure as resistance, asking what happens when we stop apologizing for our desires, our changing bodies, our refusal to be quiet or invisible.
We are living through an era of unprecedented attacks on women's autonomy in modern times—from reproductive rights being stripped away to the political erasure of women over 40 from positions of power and cultural visibility. At the same time, conversations about menopause, perimenopause, and aging female bodies remain taboo, treated as decline rather than transformation. Midseason directly confronts this moment by insisting that women at midlife are not disappearing. We're done with self-sabotage and polite silence. Through movement, text, sound and stand-up, Juli mines the connectivity of the female experience at midlife: yearning for intimacy, the dangers of "productivity" as virtue, vulnerability required to be kind to yourself rather than punitive, and the radical act of saying "you are enough." This work is necessary now because women need to see themselves reflected—vibrant, angry, joyful, sexual, powerful, at midlife. And audiences need to witness it.
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"This stand-up comic, Sara Juli, does more than stand at a mic and lob jokes at us. She’s clearly got the moves..."
- Amy Munice, Picturethispost.com
"Quicker than a hot flash, her storytelling moxie recounts her struggles with addiction..."
- Amy Munice, Picturethispost.com
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"We are instantly bonded with Juli, as her magnetic person pulls us in."
- Amy Munice, Picturethispost.com
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Collaborator Bios:​
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Carol Farrell (costume designer) comes from an eclectic background in costume design, puppetry arts, and the creation of devised theater. In 1982, Carol co-founded Figures of Speech Theatre, an award-winning actor/puppet/movement theater with an international touring radius. As FST Co-Artistic Director for 30 years, Carol created and produced numerous original theater works and performed extensively worldwide. Besides a BA in Dance and an MA in Costume Design, Carol has studied Japanese theater and traditional clothing on fellowships from the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission, and Objectheatre at the Institut Internationale de la Marionnette in France. She has served on the faculties of several colleges, and is currently the costume manager for Bates College’s Department of Theater and Dance.
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Tyler Leif (sound designer) is a multi-disciplinary teaching artist, performer, deviser and music producer. While living in Boston, he taught acting, devising, improvisation and dance composition at Emerson College, and was the Co-founder and Artistic Director of ParadiseMoves, a non-profit movement company with a mission to share stories through movement that inspire conversation, and make dance improvisation accessible to all regardless of ability or experience. They recently completed their MFA in Devised Performance with Pig Iron Theatre Company/Rowan University, and performed their collaborative group thesis, The Marble In My Mouth at NYC’s PhysFest in January 2026. Tyler Leif currently resides in Philadelphia where he teaches theatre education at Arcadia University, and communication and conflict de-escalation within collaborative spaces at the Pig Iron School.
