2-Faced Clowns?!
A ParaTheatrical ReSearch Lab - 10 Weeks
10 Sundays: Feb. 5 - April 9, 7:30pm-10pm plus six rehearsal sessions.
Performances: May 12, 13 & 14, 2017 @ PerformanceWorks NW, PDX
Directed by Antero Alli. Vocal training with Sylvi Alli.
Sourcing hypocrisy as a
resource
for
movement, voice, characterization, and performance.
The word "hypocrisy" commonly carries negative social connotations
felt as displeasure or annoyance when we contradict ourselves or
when
our politicians, friends, and parents contradict themselves; saying this but
doing
that, meaning this but saying that.
What we call
hypocrisy
may actually
be a social
misinterpretation of the
innately
contradictory
nature
of
being
human. Are you strong enough to be weak? Are you smart enough to
confess
ignorance? Are you right enough to be wrong?
Independent
enough
to be dependent?
Good enough to be bad? Embracing these contraries, we come
alive
in
the pulsating
heart
of our human contradictions. - Antero Alli
LAB Intent - from RITUAL into THEATRE
The 2-Faced Clowns Lab explores (the often difficult) exposure of personal and collective hypocrisy that can, with enough self-compassion, heal our relationship with the Personal and Collective Shadow (our repressed and projected negatives). Paratheatre methods will be applied to access, embody, and express this shadow work in movement, vocal creations, and 2-Faced Clown characterizations. For the first six weeks, these processes will be explored in a non-performance spirit of self-discovery. Over the final four weeks, we will develop these characters towards the creation of a new experimental theatre work, "Bardoville", conceived and directed by Antero with music by Sylvi and E.V.E.
Rehearsal & Performance Schedule
After this 10-week Lab, we rehearse four more Sunday nights (April 16 through May 7th)
plus two additional rehearsals (Wed & Thurs. May 10 & 11, 3pm to 6pm). Three peformances
of "Bardoville" are scheduled for Fri/Sat/Sun nights May 12, 13, & 14 at PerformanceWorks NW.
CONTACTS
Antero Alli, call 503-299-4064 leave a message
or e-mail: antero@paratheatrical.com
PARTICIPANTS
ANTERO ALLI, SYLVI ALLI, MEMORIE EDEN,
WES MARTUSEWICZ,
HANK PETERSON, WENDY ALLEGAERT,
STARLETTE NITE,
MAPLE HOLMES, MICHAELA, and CIBYL KAVAN