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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 ]

PRACTICE and PLAY in the context of SPACE

When we pursuit work in the studio and call it Practice, we almost never achieve Play. When we pursuit Play in the studio we rarely achieve anything practical. Play occurs most spontaneously outside of the structure of “knowing” and the pursuit of “Technique.” And yet, it is through Play that we explore, discover and perhaps even develop practical ... [ READ MORE ]