NOTE: all Workshops and
Performances suspended until further notice.
NOTE: all Workshops and
Performances suspended until further notice.
~ DOCUMENTATION ~
THE DIRECTORS, VIDEOS, NEW WORKBOOK, PARTICIPANT STORIES,
DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES, PARATHEATRE MANIFESTO
"Bardoville" (performance, May 2017; Portland) -- click image for details
The Poet performs his work, accidentally invoking the spirits trapped in his words.
THE DIRECTORS
Sylvi Alli, Music director & Vocal training
Antero Alli, Artistic director & Paratheatrical training
VIDEO DOCUMENTS
Performance & Non-performance modalities (since 1991)
THE NEW WORKBOOK (2020)
"STATE OF EMERGENCE"
Experiments in Group Ritual Dynamics
"Fallen Monsters" (May 2018 rehearsal for performance; Portland OR; click image)
Children playing with masks that transform them into gentle monsters
PARTICIPANT STORIES
from those who have done this work
DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS
On various facets of this work
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
On Paratheatre and related topics
PARATHEATRE MANIFESTO
"Undoing The World" by Antero Alli
~ THE WORK ~
FOUR STAGES OF WORK (Video), THE ASOCIAL CLIMATE, NO-FORM,
TRIGGER METHODS, THE FIVE INTENTIONS, RITUAL FACILITATOR,
MUSES DIALOGUE, and THE DREAMING RITUAL
NOTES ON THE ABOVE VIDEO
A group of seven demonstrates what typically occurs in the
first hour of a 3-hour session (condensed to 10 minutes):
1) The physical warm-up 2) Non-directional jogging
3) No-Form practice 4) Conscious projection.
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 (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
THE DREAMING RITUAL
Choreography of movements recalled from dreams
Click this for video production details
"Escape from Chapel Perilous" (Dec. 2018 performance; Portland OR) click image
After living souls leave their bodies, do they yearn to return to their mortal coils?
THE HISTORY OF THIS PARATHEATRE MEDIUM
Where, How and When; 1977 genesis to present day
LIST OF PAST LAB THEMES
1996 - 2019; with ritual journal entires
LIST OF PAST PARTICIPANTS
since 1977
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Seattle, Portland, SF/Berkeley
VERTICAL POOL, CONTACT US, LINKS, SITE MAP
Antero and Sylvi
VERTICAL POOL PRODUCTIONS
Films, Books, and Music by Antero and Sylvi
Send correspondence to
verticalsource@gmail.com
site map
©1977-2020 Antero Alli.
All rights reserved.
No part of this website, in part or in whole,
or utilized, in any form or
by any
means,
electronic or mechanical, including
photocopying, recording,
or
by any
information storage and retrieval system,
without permission
in writing
from the owner, except for brief quotations
in critical articles,
books and reviews (see contact e-mail above).
