theatre
RESUME
Saturation Ensemble Henry Art Gallery
Chromatic Ensemble On the Boards
Still LIfe Singer/Voice YellowFish
Untitled Person #1 of 2 Base Experimental+Art
Untitled Person #1 of 2 on the boards
A Great Hunger Caretaker On the Boards
Body Sound Suffering Ensemble Penthouse Theater
This is Halloween Voice actor/Sally Triple Door
A Great Hunger Ensemble On the Boards
Henry IV Ensemble/Gadshill Engaged Theatre
The Thing Worth Fighting For Ensemble Cornish Playhouse
Our Bar Various Project Theatre
Choose Your Own Adventure Laura/Jenny Playwrights Horizons
Holy Ghost Lorena Brown Stage
Saturation
For the third and final live-streamed MELTED RIOT performance with the Henry, Gender Tender and friends will rest and riot for 24 hours of SATURATION. Synthesizing the previous three weeks of research and dialogue with artworks from the Henry’s photography and print collection, this durational performance will feature a cohort of artists spread across time zones, rotating throughout the day to engage with prompts generated by Fox Whitney. Aptly marking the nature of this durational work, saturation also refers to the intensity of color in an image. In the realm of color, saturation plays with ideas of presence and distance, over and under, investigating the possibilities of too little and too much and what is seen and unseen.
Chromatic
"When everything seems destined to keep us apart, I believe we must find new ways to be together, especially when isolation threatens to defeat our spirits." - Fox Whitney, Artist-in-Residence
MELTED RIOT softens the word riot (a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd) and replaces the word VIOLENT with: somatic, satirical, surreal, and psychedelic. Fox’s work will feature an isolated crowd of socially distant voices, bodies and sculptural interventions coming together to reflect on the past, the unstable present and the opaque future.
Photo Credit: OTB
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Investigating the current "emergency" state of our looming global crisis, two women encounter their own emergency preparedness, or lack thereof, through darkly psychological humor. Their ill-fated responses to several existential threats finds these two women stranded in the outer edges of the Universe. Through sing-song siren sounds and incessant counting, they cycle “Hello” with “Help,” interchangeably. This is a movement theater duet, with dynamically syncopated rhythmic dancing, text, space helmets, shiny hands, terrible singing, all while arranging and rearranging tiny disasters. Separated by a thin veil, they can sense one another, but they cannot connect. Or can they?
Photo Credit: Ariel Burke
Photo Credit: Tim Summers
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A Great HungeR
Audacious choreographer and sorceress Jessica Jobaris leads a congregation of willing pranksters on a mission to define the riddle of existence. Exhibitionism, ritual, wild dancing, and a willingness to jump from a hypothetical cliff lead them (and us) on a quest into the human condition. How can we unravel the human tragedy, making sense of life and loss? Teetering on the verge of hilarious and profound, the intergenerational cast attempts to heal itself by any and all means necessary. It’s a new church for the new millennium, and everyone is invited.
body sound suffering
Teater Payung Hitam was founded by Artistic Director Rachman Sabur in 1982 in Bandung, Indonesia. Now in its 33rd year, the group has established itself as one of the country’s foremost modern theatre companies. Their creative work is stimulated by the problems of people and society. They desire to stand at the forefront of idealism, voicing what they believe to be for the good of human progress. However, for Payung Hitam the body is a living text which speaks more than simply the verbality of words. After the fall of the New Order regime, they began to focus more explicitly on nature and the destruction of the world’s ecosystem. The group’s fascination with metal and stone, which alludes to their desire to rebel with a massive force, dates back to the first iteration of Merah Bolong in 1997. (Adapted from www.kelola.or.id).
On December 11, 2015, Teater Payung Hitam was joined by Seattle residency artists to perform two pieces at the Hughes Penthouse Theatre on the University of Washington campus:
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Photo Credit: Fox Whitney