This...A Devised Performance
directed by Lindsey Barlag Thornton
created & performed with Amanda Dunne Acevedo, Alexis Atwill,
Jon Penick, Corey Smith, and Udita Upadhyaya
technical direction by Margaret L. Nelson
THIS is a collaboratively devised event playing with and within the boundaries of theatre.
Using music as a frame, the performance interweaves movement, text, and visual image
to explore vulnerability and uncertainty, memory and nostalgia, grief and love.
As our starting point, we took a quote from Brian Eno about conspiracy in music.
​We began playing and experimenting with the notion of copies, covers, and translations
​through various source material ranging from quantum physics, personal narrative, contemporary art, pop culture and beyond.
Unabashed singing, dance parties and humor -
THIS is an unsentimentally sentimental subversion and meditative deconstruction
​of the stage's ability to represent, reproduce, and transmit genuine human emotion.
THIS is a messy collage. THIS is a hybridized essay.
THIS... was part of IN>TIME 16 Performance Festival, Feb. 5th - 8th, 2016 at Links Hall.
We shared a works-in-progress performance at Filament Theatre on Sept. 2nd, 2015 (with Mac Gerber).
Photo Credit: Sergio Soltero
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Click here for video documentation the performance.
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