NOTE: all Workshops and
Performances suspended until further notice.
NOTE: all Workshops and
Performances suspended until further notice.
~ DOCUMENTATION ~
THE WORKBOOKS (2), THE DIRECTORS, VIDEOS, PARTICIPANT STORIES,
DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES, PARATHEATRE MANIFESTO
Featuring the poetry of Charles Bukowski
Click this for "Bardoville" production details
WORKBOOK #1
"TOWARDS AN ARCHEOLOGY OF THE SOUL"
by Antero Alli & Friends (2003)
WORKBOOK #2
"STATE OF EMERGENCE" by Antero Alli (2020)
Experiments in Group Ritual Dynamics
THE DIRECTORS
Sylvi Alli, Music director & Vocal training
Antero Alli, Artistic director & Paratheatrical training
VIDEO DOCUMENTS
Performance & Non-performance modes (since 1991)
"Escape from Chapel Perilous" (Dec. 2018 performance; Portland OR; click image)
Featuring the poetry of Sylvia Plath
PARTICIPANT STORIES
Reports from those who have done this work
DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS
On various facets of this process
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
On Paratheatre and related topics
PARATHEATRE MANIFESTO
"Undoing The World" by Antero Alli
~ THE WORK PROCESS ~
FOUR STAGES OF WORK (Video), THE ASOCIAL CLIMATE, NO-FORM,
TRIGGER METHODS, THE 5 INTENTIONS, RITUAL FACILITATOR,
THE MUSES DIALOGUE, and THE DREAMING RITUAL
FOUR STAGES OF WORK (2020; 10 min.)
A group demonstrates what typically occurs in the
first hour of a 3-hour session: 1) The physical warm-up
2) Non-directional jogging 3) No-Form practice
and 4) Conscious projection/Sourcing.
THE ASOCIAL CLIMATE
The social bypass of paratheatrical process
NO-FORM: THE CRUX OF THIS MEDIUM
Inner and outer adjustments; source work
TRIGGER METHODS
The ritual technology within this medium
THE 5 INTENTIONS
On advancement in this work
"Dreaming Rituals" Lab/Video (March 2012; Berkeley CA) click image for info
Choreography created from movements recalled from nocturnal dreams
THE RITUAL FACILITATOR
On Set, Setting, and Guidelines for Group Work
NOTES ON THE MUSES DIALOGUE
Pearls and Perils of Courting the Muses
(includes "Courting the Muses" video)
THE DREAMING RITUAL
Choreography of movements recalled from dreams
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PARTIAL LIST OF PAST PARTICIPANTS
since 1977
PAST RITUAL LAB THEMES
1996 - 2019; with journal entires
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Seattle, Portland, SF/Berkeley
VERTICAL POOL, CONTACTS, LINKS, SITE MAP
Antero and Sylvi
VERTICAL POOL PRODUCTIONS
Films, Books, and Music by Antero and Sylvi
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