Archive for October, 2009

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 ]

Grotowski Symposium in Boston

Emerson College in Boston, MA will host a day of Grotowski-related events on October 30. More info: [pdf] ... [ 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 ]

Collective Arts Think Tank

I have sometimes been heard to complain that the artistic production culture in New York City is excessively product-oriented, to the extreme detriment of the quality of this work. I now realize that an element of this issue, which I’ve never consciously thought of before, has been the lack of a strong, principled stand on ... [ READ MORE ]

Year of Grotowski in Brazil

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The Cut and the Flow

Two rhythms. The first is unbroken, like a river. I know this as the rhythm of musicality – of song. The river of song. It is not less precise, but its precision is less conscious. “I” do not control it. “I” surrender to it. Let it guide me. I do not know what will happen in the next moment. It takes me and pulls me ... [ READ MORE ]