Lane Pianta

Lane Pianta


Lane Pianta is a writer and performer in the Washington DC area.


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    Performance Notes: PLAY/WAR

      Performance Notes PLAY/WAR by Urban Research Theater As performed at Where Eagles Dare Theater, March 12 & 13, 2010     In the beginning, darkness. The creaking of a door as it opens…to admit two performers.   A low vocal tone resonates in the small room… First one, then a series of these tones gradually coalesce into a fragment of vocal melody…A proto-song emerges.  ... [ READ MORE ]

    The Embodied Art of Metal Sculpting

    For a little over a year now I’ve been working as an assistant in the studio of a master metal sculptor named Robert Cole.  Mr. Cole has been working as a sculptor since the early sixties, for a long time in plastics (a material which he describes as too caustic to continue with), then in ... [ READ MORE ]

    The ‘How’, the ‘Why’ and the ‘Actual’ Potential of Language

    For a long time, the gap between my living experience as a performer and my ability to fully and accurately articulate the elements of performance has bothered me.  Subsequent to my last post, a very interesting dialogue occurred between noform and myself, and it got me thinking (again) about how to better articulate my own ... [ READ MORE ]

    Aerial Festival in Baltimore this weekend!

    This wonderful festival is already underway, but it’s exactly the kind of thing that readers of this forum should find interesting… UP IN THE AIR, THE BALTIMORE AERIAL FESTIVAL, OCT 9-11 IN THE ALLEYWAY OF LOAD OF FUN The most daring, magical, and poetic family festival to fly through Baltimore Featuring Baltimore’s best aerialists in a variety of out ... [ READ MORE ]

    Five Pillars: A Vision of Ideal Practice

    Occurring daily, it begins in stillness and silence, the body seated on a smooth, steady ground.  Only breathing, and that, fully, one with the blood that circulates within oneself, the doer’s mind at rest, intent only on the experience to breathe – The Breath, the first pillar of practice.  Each breath in, each breath out, ... [ READ MORE ]