1977 to 2019

All Paratheatre Labs, Productions and Workshops ceased after Autumn Equinox 2019



"Orphans of Delirium" (2004; performance and video document) CellSpace, San Francisco CA
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Coming Soon!
 "SACRED RITES: From Ritual Into Theatre"
 Discussion and Book-Signing with director/author, Antero Alli
Sunday June 11, 7pm, 2023. PerformanceWorks NW, Portland

~ DOCUMENTATION ~





"BARDOVILLE" - 3 min. excerpt from the performance. Poetry by Charles Bukowski
(May 2017, Portland). Nothing is choreographed here. All the actions are spontaneous
expressions of personal hypocrisies within each performer as a basis for characters
developed in the previous ten-week 2-Faced Clowns Lab ~ Production details

VIDEO DOCUMENTS
Performance & Non-performance modes (since 1991)

PARATHEATRICAL RESEARCH WORKBOOK #1
"ARCHEOLOGY OF THE SOUL" by Antero Alli (2003)

PARATHEATRICAL RESEARCH WORKBOOK #2
"STATE OF EMERGENCE" by Antero Alli (2020)
Experiments in Group Ritual Dynamics

"SACRED RITES" (APRIL 2023)
"Ritual Journal Entries & Production Notes" by Antero Alli



"FALLEN MONSTERS" (excerpt) ~ Poetry by William Blake; sung by Sylvi Alli
May 2018, Portland OR (neither improvised nor choreographed, these actions
erupted spontaneously from specific internal sources within the performer). 
 Production details


THE DIRECTORS
Sylvi Alli, Music director & Vocal training
Antero Alli, Artistic director & Paratheatrical training

PARATHEATRE BEYOND GROTOWSKI
On the term "Paratheatre" and its offshoots

INTERVIEWS
Antero and Sylvi on Paratheatre

ARTICLES & ESSAYS
Paratheatre and related topics



~ THE WORK PROCESS ~




FOUR STAGES OF WORK (2020; 10 min.)
 Demonstration of what typically occurs in the first hour of each 3-hour session:
1) The physical warm-up 2) Non-directional jogging 3) No-Form practice
and 4) Conscious projection/Sourcing.

ORIENTATION
 Guiding principles of this work

THE ASOCIAL CLIMATE
The social bypass of paratheatrical process

NO-FORM: THE CRUX OF THIS MEDIUM
Inner and outer adjustments of source work

ON VERTICALITY
Opening the door to the internal landscape


"Soror Mystica". Poetry by Hilda Doolittle (aka H.D.) Dec. 2017, Portland.
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TRIGGER METHODS
The "nuts and bolts" of this ritual technology

THE 5 INTENTIONS
On advancement in this work

THE EMBODIED VOICE
Methods of vocalization in motion

THE RITUAL FACILITATOR
Set, Setting, and Guidelines for Group Work



PERFORMANCE/2004-2018

 



6 min. excerpt from "ESCAPE FROM CHAPEL PERILOUS" (Dec. 2018).
Poetry by Sylvia Plath performed by Ed Welsh as "Father Timeless"

ORPHANS OF DELIRIUM (2004)

REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND (2005)

A TURBULENCE OF MUSES (2016)

BARDOVILLE (2017)

SOROR MYSTICA (2017)

FALLEN MONSTERS (2018)

ESCAPE FROM CHAPEL PERILOUS (2018)

 

~ OUR BACK STORY~





"A Turbulence of Muses". Poetry by Arthur Rimbaud. (Dec. 2016; Portland)
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TESTIMONIALS
Stories shared by past participants

ORIGINS OF THIS PARATHEATRE MEDIUM
Early training, inspirations, developments, 1970 - 2023

PRODUCTION HISTORY
 Berkeley, Seattle, Portland, 1978-2018

VERTICAL POOL (CURRENT & FUTURE PROJECTS),
PARATHEATRE MANIFESTO, LINKS, CONTACT, SITE MAP









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