Coming Home, Broke Wide Open
Rock Wilk channels his personal story through storytelling and music, two mediums which can be incredibly open and communal for an audience. The "Broke Wide Open" experience is an intense and entertaining body of work. It is ultimately about a survivor who is not letting anything, fate nor past mistakes, keep him from soaring.
24 Hour Sacred Theater Marathon
Employing elements of ensemble theater, meditation, and ritual, Theatre Group Dzieci hosts a 24-hour workshop this Saturday and Sunday in NYC.
Seeing What’s Really There: A Talk with Richard Foreman
Foreman has been a kind of spiritual guide to those lost souls seeking out the kind of live art that upsets one's usual way of encountering the world, puts into doubt perceptions of the self, others and the relations in between, and that offers us something that may be missing in the world as we know it in our everyday way.
Information Bombs and the Canary in the Coal Mine: A Talk with Antero Alli
Antero Alli is most known for his performance works using Paratheatre processes since 1977, and experimental video documents and feature fiction films since 1993. In this interview, he discusses the Eight-Circuit Brain model of consciousness, dream ritual, media overdose, and the resuscitation of the imagination as the key to empowerment.
Remembering The Living Theatre’s Hanon Reznikov
While hundreds of revolutionaries have dedicated their lives to resistance through direct action, and many artists have
sought liberty through creative expression, few have led such a dedicated
pursuit of both simultaneously – not just in theory but in daily practice with The Living Theatre.
Bad Boy Nietzsche: A Play
Friedrich Nietzche "is a man who sees the darkness, where other people think there is a light still shining." The story begins with the philosopher collapsing when he sees a horse being beaten on the street, and explodes as characters identified as the Child, the Cruel Man, and the Beautiful Woman enter the scene. The full text of this "mesmerizing tragicomic fantasia of a play" (The New York Times).
Of TAKSU: The Perfectly Attuned State of Listening
"Just understand what
we're doing on stage is a ritual – that it could lift us a little bit further," said my teacher. "And if the actors stay connected through their
will force, they may reach this special place the Balinese call TAKSU."
Sex Workers’ Art Show
I'm on the bus, zigzagging across America, with a visionary cabaret road show featuring acts by eight performers and writers who work, or have worked in the past, in the sex industry. SWAS has played to large sold-out houses – while also being banned – from the Pacific Northwest to Virginia.
Welcome to this Situation: Notes on Being an Artwork
[Terra Nova] • In October I received a strange invitation to be part of an artwork at a prestigious midtown New York gallery by Tino Sehgal, an artist who has said, "We have too much stuff, I don't want to make any more." So he creates "situations."