From 1977 to 2015, ParaTheatrical ReSearch Labs explored a spectrum of themes in primarily non-performance modalities in Berkeley CA with a few additional labs conducted in Boulder CO, and Seattle WA. Between Autumn 2016 and Winter 2018, our previous non-performance orientation transitioned into performance rituals with five different productions staged in Portland, Oregon (featuring the poetry of Rimbaud, Bukowski, HD, Blake and Plath). After September 21st, 2019, all workshops, labs & performances ceased until further notice. Links to lab reports and ritual journals can be found in the bottom half of this page.
Portland LABS & *Peformance Rituals: 2016 -2019
MUSES LAB - Summer 2019 - Non-Performance
Once a week (Sundays nights) for 8 weeks; vets only
"DREAMING RITUAL Lab" - Spring 2019; Non-Performance
Paratheatre training and dreaming rituals. 8 Sunday nights
*"THE LABYRINTH PERFORMANCE LAB " Autumn 2018
Once a week (Sundays) for 11 weeks; vets only
Resulted in performance "Escape from Chapel Perilous" Dec. 2018
Also made into a video document.
"THE CHAKRA LAB" Summer 2018 - Non-Performance
Once a week (Sundays) for 7 weeks; vets only
*"THE CONTRACT" PERFORMANCE LAB Spring 2018
Once a week (Sundays) for 10 weeks plus 2 rehearsals; vets only
Resulted in the performance of "Fallen Monsters" May, 2018.
Also made into a video document.
*ALCHEMY PERFORMANCE LAB Autumn 2017
Once a week (Sundays) for 10 weeks plus 2 rehearsals; vets & newbies
Resulted in the performance of "Soror Mystica" December, 2017.
Also made into a video document.
ANCESTORS LAB Summer 2017 - Non-Performance Ancestral Altar rituals
Once a week (Sundays) for 5 weeks; vets only
*2-FACED CLOWNS PERFORMANCE LAB Spring 2017
Once a week (Sundays) for 10 weeks plus 6 rehearsals; vets & newbies
Resulted in the performance of "Bardoville" May 2017.
Also made into a video document.
*THE MUSES PERFORMANCE LAB Autumn 2016
Once a week (Sundays) for 7 weeks; vets & newbies
Resulted in the performance of "A Turbulence of Muses" December 2016.
Also made into a video document.
DREAMING Lab Early Summer 2016 - Paratheatre training
and dreaming rituals. 6 Sunday nights; newbies
ZERO Lab Spring 2016 - Paratheatre training
Once a week (Sundays) for 8 weeks; newbies
Berkeley Non-performance LABS
plus *3 Public Peformances: 1996-2015
MUSES Lab Summer 2015
Once a week (Mondays) for 7 weeks; vets & newbies
RITUAL SONG Lab late Spring 2015
Once a week (Thursdays) for 9 weeks
sourcing a Bulgarian folk song in movement and ritual
BASICS LAB early Spring 2015
Once a week (Thursdays) for 8 weeks of basic training.
CHARACTERS Lab Winter 2014-2015
Once a week (Thursdays) for 9 weeks; vets only
developing source-animated characters
BASICS LAB Fall 2014
Once a week (Thursdays) for 8 weeks of basic training.
MUSES Lab Summer 2014
Once a week (Thursdays) for 9 weeks; vets & newbies
TRINITY Lab Spring 2014
Once a week (Thursdays) for 9 weeks; vets & newbies
working to excavate one's core or holy trinity .
BASICS LAB Winter 2014
Once a week (Thursdays) for 7 weeks of basic training.
ANCESTORS' Lab 2 Autumn 2013
Once a week for 9 weeks working with a song, poem
or prayer inherited from our ancestral heritage. Vets only.
INTERPLAY Lab 2 Summer 2013
Once a week for 7 weeks for asocial group interaction.
Vets only.
INTERPLAY Lab Winter/Spring 2013
Once a week for 8 weeks for asocial group interaction.
Vets only.
SOURCES Lab Fall 2012
Twice a week for 8 weeks for multiple sources & ritual actions.
Vets and experienced newbies only.
DREAMING RITUAL Lab Spring 2012
Once a week for 7 weeks; ritual choreography of dream movements.
Vets and experienced newbies only; made into a video document.
BASICS Lab Spring 2012
Once a week (Sundays) for 7 weeks of basic training.
Newbies only.
MUSES TRINITY Lab Winter 2011-12
Once a week for 9 weeks; the third Muses Lab.
Vets and experienced newbies only.
BASICS Lab Autumn 2011
Once a week (Sundays) for 7 weeks of basic training..
Newbies only.
BASICS Lab Autumn 2011
Once a week (Mondays) for 7 weeks of basic training.
Newbies and vets.
SOURCES Lab Summer 2011
Once a week for 6 weeks for technique and source work.
Vets only.
BASICS Lab Spring 2011
Once a week (Mondays) for 8 weeks of basic training.
Newbies and vets.
Ritual Actions of the Muses Lab Winter 2010-11
Twice a week for 8 weeks; the Muses and ritual actions.
Vets and experienced newbies only.
BASICS 2 Lab Autumn 2010
Once a week (Sundays) for 9 weeks of basic training..
Newbies only.
BASICS 1 Lab Autumn 2010
Once a week (Mondays) for 6 weeks of basic training..
Newbies and vets.
THEATRE OF SOURCES lab Summer 2010
Once a week for 8 weeks for technique and source work.
Vets and experienced newbies only.
MUSES Lab Spring 2010
Twice a week for 10 weeks dialogue with
the Muse Archetype. Vets only.
BASICS Lab Spring 2010
Once a week (Sundays) for 8 weeks of basic training.
Newbies only.
DREAMING RITUAL Lab Autumn 2009
Twice a week for 8 weeks for dream movement choreography.
Vets only.
PRECISION lab Summer 2009
Once a week for 8 weeks to apply techniques of "body as unit"
and "sustaining care". Vets only.
DREAMING RITUAL Lab Spring 2009
Twice a week for 8 weeks for dream movement choreography.
Vets only.
DREAMING RITUAL Lab Autumn/Winter 2008
Twice a week for 10 weeks for dream movement choreography.
Vets and newbies.
PRECISION Lab Summer 2008
Once a week for 8 weeks to develop precision of expression.
Vets only.
DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY Lab Spring 2008
Twice a week for7 weeks for dream movement choreography.
Vets and advanced newbies.
BEGINNER'S MIND Lab Autumn 2007
Twice a week for 8 weeks for rituals of the energetic body.
Primarily newbies.
CHAKRA Lab Spring 2007
Once a week for 8 weeks, each session a different chakra
Vets only.
*SONG AND PRAYER Lab Autumn 2006
Working with the interplay of melody, song, movement, action
This lab shifted its intention twice in its duration. Public witnessing.
ALCHEMY Lab Spring/Summer 2006
Exploring the internal landscape as alchemical process
Mapping a series of self-created mandalas; wilderness trip
Two-faced Clowns/Experiments in Hypocrisy Fall/Winter 2005
Performance lab focussing chiefly on character development
Comic charaterizations stemming from personal sources of hypocrisy
TECHNIQUES Lab Spring 2005
Returning to the basic infrastructure of this ritual technology
A clinic for developing specific physical, vocal and ritual skills
*SONG-AS-VEHICLE Lab Fall/Winter 2004
Immersion in songs of personal ancestry and their ritual actions
Embodiment of a song within an intercultural context; wilderness trip
This lab culminated in performance and an audio CD
*INITIATIONS Lab Winter 2003/04
Developing ritual forms for triggering exposures to initiatic experience
Heightening commitment to physicality and public performance
This lab culminated in performance of "Oprhans of Delirium"
Also made into a video document.
TRINITY Lab Summer 2002
Towards the discovery of core life trinities
Triadic ritual structures of worship; the personal holy trinity
ANCESTOR'S Lab Autumn/Winter 2001
Towards an archeology of the family soul
Excavating & embodying clan-defining needs, patterns, stories
ANIMA/ANIMUS Lab Spring 2001
the Masculine/Feminine archetypes as autonomous forces
Merging with, disengaging from and relating with Anima and Animus
DREAMING RITUALS Lab Autumn 2000
Twice a week for 9 weeks for a dream movement choreography.
Non-interpretive dreamwork for the active body
SACRIFICE Lab Spring 2000
Theme of sacrifice; the scripting, rehearsal, production of TRAGOS,
a feature-length cyber noir witch hunt film; newbies and vets.
CRUX LAB Summer 1999
Unearthing personal and non-sectarian crucifixion archetypes
Exposing points of worship. Also made into a video document.
Antero Alli interviewed on CRUX
IMAGO LAB, late 1996 to early 1997, Berkeley.
Twice a week for 10 weeks.
Theme: discernment between images and the reality represented
Newbies.
PARATHEATRE LABS & PERFORMANCES PRIOR TO 1996:
THE GENESIS LAB, Spring to Summer 1977, Non-performance. Berkeley
CORONATION AT STILLNIGHT, Fall 1977, Performance. Berkeley
SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE, Spring 1978, Performance. Berkeley
THE CONJUNCTION, Fall/Winter 1978. Performance. Berkeley
- NO LABS CONDUCTED BETWEEN 1979-82 -
CHAPEL PERILOUS: Dreaming Phases for Lovers 1983 performances, Petaluma & SF
- NO LABS CONDUCTED BETWEEN 1984-85 -
ADVANCED FUN, 1986-87, Performance Labs. Boulder CO
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD, 1988, Performance Lab. Boulder CO
ANIMAMUNDI 1989-90, Performances in Seattle, Portland, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Victoria Canada
ARCHAIC COMMUNITY, 1991, Seattle; Non-performance Lab. video document.
MASS OF THE ICONOCLASTS, Winter Solstice 1992, Seattle; Performance.
- NO LABS CONDUCTED BETWEEN 1993-95 -
LAB PARTICIPANT LIST
a partial list of those who have done this work
Lab reports, ritual journals, and performance vision statements
documented by Antero and others from Summer 1999 through
Spring of 2018:
"Fallen Monsters" Performance - Spring 2018
Vision statement by Antero Alli"Soror Mystica" Performance - Winter 2017
Vision statement by Antero Alli"Bardoville" Performance - Spring 2017
Vision statement by Antero Alli"A Turbulence of Muses" Performance - Winter 2016
Vision statement by Antero Alli.BASICS RITUAL LAB JOURNAL Spring 2011.
by Kyra Auerbach
Ritual Actions of the Muses lab Winter 2010-11.
Muses lab report by Antero Alli.
Muses lab report by Sylvi Alli
The Muses lab Spring 2010.
Project lab report by Antero Alli.
The Mountain Teaches the Dreaming 2008 and 2009.
The 2-year Dreaming Ritual Project
Project report by Antero Alli.
Dreaming ritual lab Winter 2008.
Lab reports by Sylvi Alli and Mayur Lunia
Observations after 10 weeks of indoor work.
Dreambody/earthbody lab Spring 2008.
Lab report by Antero Alli
Notes & observations from indoors to Mt. Tamalpais.
Beginners' mind lab Autumn 2007.
Lab reports by David Hunt, Brendan Ramsden, Mayur Lunia,
Jessie Woletz. A return to the fundametals of this medium.
The Song and a Prayer Lab Autumn 2006; Oct. 1st thru Dec. 18th.
What started out as an attempt to learn an Armedian choral song
for performance ended in a Public Witnessing event.
Lab report by Antero Alli.
Ritual mandalas Spring/Summer 2006.
Alchemy lab ritual mandalas created by the participants for mapping
their transformations. Reports and art by Nick Walker, Sylvi Alli,
Antero Alli, Jessica Bockler and JoJo Razor.
Experiments in compassion report Sept - Dec, 2005.
Journal Entries by Antero Alli
What started out as two-faced clowns turned into...
Techniques lab -- devices March - May, 2005.
Journal Entries by Antero Alli and Participants
Various forms, skills, and structural components of this medium.
Lab reports by Leah Kahn, John M. Doyle, and Sylvi Alli
Song-as-vehicle lab -- terms & definitions Sept.- Dec., 2004.
Journal Entries by Antero Alli. The ritual sources, techniques
and forms used to build the song as vehicle.
Initiation lab notes 2003/04.
Journal Entries by Antero Alli
From private ritual towards public performance
Lab reports also byLapo.
Trinity lab notes Summer 2002.
Journal Entries by Antero Alli
The charged trinary circuit of "Muse", "My Body" and "Ancestors"
Ancestors lab notes Autumn/Winter 2001.
Journal Entries by Antero Alli
Comprehensive ritual structures, observations and impressions
Anima/Animus lab notes Spring 2001.
Journal Entries by Antero Alli
Visual, physical and emotional impacts received from the Anima force
Dreaming ritual notes Autumn 2000.
Journal Entries by Antero Alli
Following the internal landscape of dreams into ritual actions
CRUX: Interview -- Behind the Scenes Summer 1999.
Antero discusses the non-sectarian crucifixion archetype
