"SACRED RITES"
...from ritual into theatre...
In-Person Discussion & Book Signing with Antero Alli
Author and director/founder of ParaTheatrical ReSearch PDX
4 STAGES OF PARATHEATRE WORK (2020; 10 min.)
Group demonstration of what typically occurs
in
the
first hour
of
a
3-hour session:
1)Physical warm-up
2) Non-directional jogging
3) No-Form practice
and
4) Conscious projection/Sourcing.
PerformanceWorks NW; seating limited to 50.
4625 SE 67th Avenue (nr Foster) PDX; doors open 6:45pm
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Inspired by the Paratheatre of Jerzy Grotowski, Mr. Alli will discuss the principles and methods of his own Paratheatre medium that he has been developing and applying in groups since 1977. Alli's Paratheatre combines methods of physical theatre, dance, embodied voice and standing Zazen to access the internal landscape of vital currents in the Body as movement and vocal resources - expressed through presence, symbolic gesture, embodied voice, ritual actions, and asocial interplay. This informal Talk will focus on the relevance of Paratheatre to the creative states of actors, dancers, singers, ritualists, non-performance and performing artists, alike. The four levels of Paratheatre work - Unconscious Projection, Experimentation, Development, and Performative - will also be covered. Brief Q&A to follow. Signed copies of Alli's three Paratheatre workbooks - "Towards an Archeology of the Soul" (2003), "State of Emergence" (2020) and "Sacred Rites" (2023) - will be available at the event for $20 each (cash or PayPal). Covid precautions left to those attending; no masks or vax-proof required for entry.
Your book is a wonderful compendium of wisdom and experiences during
your
long
commitment to the performing arts. Aware of the dangers of
inflation
and
self-centeredness that are a part of the path to
the
invisible,
I am
glad to
have
"The Theater And Its Double",
"Towards a Poor
Theater"
and your "State
of
Emergence" in my library. - JOHN O'KEEFE, playwright, Project Artaud, S.F.
.
Antero Alli, author/director/filmmaker
Antero's paratheatrical work is documented in his three books, eleven videos (1992-2023), and in academia by Nicoletta Isar, Professor at Copenhagen University. Between 1975 and 2018, Antero wrote and directed sixteen experimental theatre productions, including five in Portland at PerformanceWorks NW between 2016 and 2018. Since 1993, he has written and directed fifteen feature-length art films including "The Greater Circulation" (2005) a critically acclaimed cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria Rilke's epic prose work, "Requiem for a Friend", and "The Invisible Forest" (2008) inspired by the radical theatre of Antonin Artaud. Antero and Sylvi, his partner and artistic collaborator of thirty years, reside in Portland (since 2015).
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