ANTERO ALLI
founder/director (since 1977)
Berkeley California USA



This website documents a paratheatre medium
developed by Antero Alli that combines techniques
of theatre, movement, song and Zazen meditation
in non-performance and performance modalities.
Participation by invitation and/or an interview
with the director. All inquiries welcome.
(see contact info at bottom of page).

Participation Prerequisites
(interested parties, read this first)

WHAT'S NEW? (updated 8/25/10)
INVISIBLE FOREST (SCREENING),'BASICS' LAB,
'RITUAL ACTIONS' LAB,
PUBLIC LECTURE, VOICE WORKSHOPS & LESSONS FOR WOMEN,
VIDEO CLIPS & PODCASTS





who we are and what we do





who we are
Past & Current Participants, Testimonials,
Director Bio, Collaborators

what we do
Introductory Reading Material,
Lab Participation Prerequisites,
Lab Schedules, Public Event History, Previous Lab Themes & Journals

Paratheatre F.A.Q.
Infrequently Asked Questions


 


three areas of paratheatre work





After three decades in this paratheatre medium I have noticed three overlapping areas of work through which our process develops and evolves. These stages unfold as a continuum -- no graduations, no final arrivals -- with each area of work nurturing and influencing each other. -- Antero Alli

 

SHADOW WORK
Rituals and movement forms that expose unconscious and often self-destructive attitudes, complexes, and beliefs towards their transformation into more creative expression and spontaneity. This process
can be supported by and accomplished with technique work.

TECHNIQUE WORK
The structural integrity of this ritual technology is maintained by a web of techniques that include: No-Form, Polarizations, Contact Point, Vocalizations, Verticality, The Warm-Up Cycles, Resonance, Service, Containment, Immersion, Movement Vocabulary, Spatial Awareness, Jogging Forms, Ritual Actions, Prayer. The purpose of technique is to bring more precision and form to the expression of source work.

SOURCE WORK
Nurtures a more direct experience of the currents of energy in the body itself and also, throughout the internal landscape of the soul's domain. This process deepens the capacity to give oneself totally to a given source, force, or state, towards a more full-embodied engagement and expression of ourselves in presence, action, sound, and gesture.

 

Also see:
CELLULAR CHOREOGRAPHY

 

 


artifacts, interviews, manifesto, essays

 


artifacts
"Towards an Archeology of the Soul" (workbook)
"Crux", "Archaic Community" and "Orphans of Delirium" (dvds)
"Songs as Vehicles" (CD); other books and films by Antero Alli
and Music CDs by Sylvi Alli

 


As seen on freewillastrology.com

 

director interviews and podcasts
techniques, principles and processes of paratheatre

 


"Orphans of Delirium"(2004)

paratheatre manifesto
'State of Emergence' by Antero Alli

essays and articles
on the many facets of paratheatre



paratheatre sites -- intermedia performers -- dangerous ideas -- dreaming cultures

 

 


CONTACT POINTS
All inquiries welcome.


For Those Requesting Participation
The Interview Process and What To Expect Once Accepted

Lab Participation Prerequisites
Preliminary Conditions for Doing this Work

Address all correspondence to Antero Alli
P.O. Box 10144, Berkeley, CA 94709 USA
voicemail: (510) 464-4640
noform@paratheatrical.com

 

MP3
THE SONGS HEARD ON THIS WEB PAGE ARE SUNG BY
SYLVI ALLI and ROBIN COOMER; "Wayfaring Stranger" and "Danny Boy"
as part of the ParaTheatrical ReSearch "Song as Vehicle" project and CD

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