Performance strategies for more-than-human audiences
I. humiliation Move continuously to humiliate yourself. This can be done as a solo, duo, or group practice. Consider the […]
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Pneuma: Queer Telling
Dangling in mid-air like a thrust-out tongue, an oval-shaped rocky surface extends from the mouth of a cave to form a rough-hewn apron stage in the middle of a mountain.
The Age of Duse
Duse’s superpower: her capacity to disappear, leaving only her plaster hands as evidence that she was a material presence in the world. Disappearance. Reproduction. She knew the theatrical drill.
Pneuma: Queer Telling : Gloss 1
They will surely become aware of the powers inherent in other generations, that the children and the elderly possess the wisdom of resurrection in our time.
Shelter
When you leave you leave the windows open and the doors and because the house sits by the sea by first light a film of sand gilds the floorboards and the kitchen chairs
The heightened impossibilization of performance : Gloss
After almost three weeks of “sheltering in place,” I noticed that an entire layer of language has been sliced off from my life. The texture of language consists not only of words, but of touches, gestures, bodily postures, smells, ambiance, and even the weather.
Future Perfect
It’s an experiment in placing the private in public, says the director—a device HE will learn to use well in the many years to come.
Correspondence
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE / HELLO FRIEND
A Night to Remember
The curtain opens on the cold, wintry Atlantic Ocean.
Implicit Monuments : Gloss 2
‘Only those who survived can remember for they alone know the smell of burning flesh and a day is coming […]