Shape details the life and travails of vaudevillian fairies (winged, anomalous), exploited for their historical songs and dances, used by the dominant culture, and abandoned at times of great need. It is based loosely on the biographies of African American vaudevillians Billy and Cordelia MacClain, who at one point took part in …
Tech is – working! But how is that possible? Ah, yes, a brilliant team. Two more Soulographie posts – One after opening and one after closing. We are truly, truly here, impossible as that may be. Be with us. “For this I pray; and, Timothy, my friend, my …
By strange miracle we’re able to go ahead with tech this week – always such an important time. It’s a litmus of ethic. Process percolates, people talk about meaning and purpose and ensemble… and then, under the stress of entering the material world in a particular way (entering the world …
Latest Soulographie: Why this subject? Love looks at everything; will let nothing hide. If love is one critique of entropy, then love has to look at genocide. Valle-Inclan: “The beautiful enigma of all things is their possibility to be loved infinitely… Art [is] a discipline toward transmigration into the essence …
[we needed to do some soulographie summing-up for our fiscal sponsor; sharing here a snapshot of the past year… the song is from a recent maria kizito rehearsal...] Between Sept 11 and Aug 12 (and some notes, beyond), we pulled together The Puppet Summit (Hurlin, Shook, Heimstead, O’Brien, …
Back to García Canclini. How do you conceive of your audience? As consumers, in the neoliberal model? Where we are organized by our purchase preferences, and where preference is guided (bound) by corporations? As a nation – in the sense of being monolithic (mono-linguistic?) and itself in control of the …
[a new version of the 9 days of arrows section in dogsbody - an adaptation of the iliad...] RADIO Then we’re in, now we’re in – Texas. This is the future. This is Texas. This is science. Fiction. This is science fiction and in the future there’s a …
Stunning musical work being done in Maria Kizito/Providence (Mendelsohn); a generous open rehearsal that invited audience in as collaborators on staging exercises… Already dumbfounding wealth here at Heart of the Beast (MN) and I haven’t even seen the show yet! (Hidebound – Heimstead). Alison showed me the space, the …
we’ve been on a journey through this site since 4/2/11; the show is now weeks away. after so much making from so many quarters, there is less and less private property… ideally, opening night, we’ll be invisible; we’ll happen; we’ll happen in you. latest from the awesome alison heimstead… City …