July First Friday: a (dirty) show in the alley

We continued through the Sculptformance series, The Residue for the July First Friday with a work in progress showing of Phase III. The Residue is inspired by watching loved ones suffer because of an inability to talk about or express enormous life changes. The series is built out of a map that charts the rhythms and patterns of the 7 days of the week and outlines a vocabulary and aesthetic for each day. Contemplate the different qualities and energies you experience on a Wednesday versus a Sunday. The map of the week then serves as a container to deconstruct and explore 7 phases we may go through when coping (or not) with something very difficult to talk about.

PHASE III is paralleled with the energetic qualities of a WEDNESDAY.

Rhythm.
Living in Denial with Distraction.
Determined Dependency.
Syndrome.

In our own alley way space,
DENVER PERFORMANCE RESEARCH:


The following photos were taken during the evening's Sculptformance (our apologies to some of their blurriness) and the text was spoken and repeatedly integrated into the improvisational performance:

When face by outside threats there is safety in numbers,
but inside such an enclave there is never lasting security or peace.

I'm afraid of looking at things that confuse me.
To be confused and not know you are confused is the definition of stupidity. Contorted Bodies seeking sustainable posture
If you fear abandonment,
it keeps you in a state of dependency, which
makes you feel you are unable to cope. Pathology.




Syndrome is a very, very good word.
It is the concurrence of a set of symptoms, a repetition.
That shows a pathology.

Reinventing The Infinite

This past Wednesday, June 15th, Denver Performance Research participated in a "Play Crawl," which was part of a fundraising benefit for And Toto too Theatre Company (a local theatre company that focuses on giving female playwrights and artists opportunities to show their work). And Toto too Theatre Company Executive Director, Susan Lyles, hosted the event at The Oriental in the Berkley/Highlands neighborhood and collaborated with a number of locally owned businesses on Tennyson Avenue to participate in the event by hosting site specific performances that audience groups would tour around to throughout the evening. Audience groups were witness to a total of nine 2 - 5 minute performances created by female playwrights, directors, musicians, and performers. Our modest alley space was invited to participate as one of 9 venues.

I decided to reinvent one of the environments from a past work titled, Pathways, to develop a new Sculptformance called, The Infinite.

The Infinite is difficult to explain because it originates from the experience of living in the unexplainable. What I can say is this: There is timelessness in the infinite. I am a giant ground sloth in the infinite.

The following photo is of The Infinite from the original Sculptformance, Pathways taken by LeAnn Brubaker:

It was my intention to expand the experience of being in The Infinite environment more largely around the body. Cocooning a bigger space where I could share the experience of that "within-ness." I simply wanted the material to surround and out stretch, like it was it's own organism that was growing arms and reaching out. The following photos are from this past Wednesday evening's Sculptformance:

Sculptformance in the alley

This past Friday, June 3rd, Denver Performance Research held it's 3rd First Friday event, a work in progress showing of one part in a 7-part Sculptformance Series, The Residue.

Some of this is articulated in previous writing, but to reiterate: The work is inspired by watching loved ones suffer because of their inability to talk about an enormously life changing event. The series is built out of a map that charts the rhythms and patterns of the 7 days of the week and outlines a vocabulary and aesthetic for each day. Contemplate the different qualities and energies you experience on a Monday versus a Saturday. The map of the week then serves as a container to deconstruct and explore 7 phases we may go through when coping with something very difficult to talk about.

This Friday we presented PHASE II, which is paralleled with the energetic qualities of a TUESDAY.
The following photos are from that evenings performance. The text exerts are taken from the script which was heard as a voice over with a home produced sound scape.

The resistance itself is unconsciousness
My inability to progress puts me
in a stage of rage.

When you are angry you become not sinful but ugly.
Look in the mirror.

Pain is like a stone. It is indestructible.
It comes from the rage of not knowing how to understand.
Of not knowing how to learn.





Violence.