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Hi.
As some of you know, I have two shows in development with Katie Pearl (and friends):
HOW TO BUILD A FOREST is a durational performance that involves Katie and I assembling and disassembling a simulated forest on stage. We'll show Phase One of our work at the Mitchell Center for the Arts in Houston as part of their Systems of Sustainability: Art, Innovation, Action Conference, March 27 - 29. In this phase, we've made six kits containing 12-foot tall modular trees that we'll install in the lobby outside the conference. The mini-forest will appear and disappear over 8 hours. We're making this one in collaboration with Kurt Mueller, a great sculptor and thinker.
TERRIBLE THINGS is a dance theater performance that revolves around Katie, the terrible things she's done, and the possibility that she may be not only the center of the universe, but the universe itself. This is the one that uses about 600 constantly shifting marshmallows as a set. We'll be in residence at The Playwrights' Center in May, developing the piece and doing a work-in-progress showing there on May 15th. Look for the premiere in December 2009. We're making this one with the incredible choreographer Emily Johnson.
NEWS
Katie and I received a Creative Capital grant in January, to develop HOW TO BUILD A FOREST. Creative Capital is a wonderous organization, and getting the grant means they will take us under their wing for three years. Three years of guidance and resources! Watch out.
In March, I'll be helping out at the State of the Nation Conference in New Orleans, co-produced by the always extraordinary ArtSpot Productions and Mondo Bizarro.
I had a great time in January at Cal Arts, working with some of their playwrights and designers. I also got to attend Erik Ehn's Arts in One World Conference. I was terrified to go. The subject matter - genocide and motherhood - felt like way more than I could handle. Boy was I wrong. An amazing four days, filled with experts from the theater world, scholarly world, political world. Interdisciplinary, hospitable and smart.
Back in December 2008, I devised a week long workshop with my husband, Brendan Connelly, that centered on the overlap between text, physicality and extended vocal techniques. We worked for a week with the actors associated with Theatre L'Opsis in Montreal. A talented and fearless bunch. I also got to meet the actresses who performed the French translation of Anna Bella Eema in Montreal last year!
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