"...dazzling sophistication, virtuoso level of characterization..." wrote Kyle Gann in The Village Voice
Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo
A composing and performing movement based theatre duo since 1991, who apply composed structures to ordinary human behavior. Contradictions play out with an air of stubborn continuity.
LINKS HALL has joined with the Prop Thtr to offer two extraordinary workshops led by this Duo, a valuable opportunity to experience the well founded craft they have refined:
1. Conjured Worlds/ Embodied Terrain, a one day workshop on Saturday October 1st which introduces both their compositional and their performance work. They will demonstrate and then allow participants to experiment with, the relationship between score, performer and audience. Compositional propositions (conjured worlds) and performance techniques (embodied terrain) will coax forth new ground for live performance and present challenges to the performing body. This workshop is open to all. Materials provided.
2. Embodied Composition: movement theatre laboratory, Oct 4th-8th is an intensive which immerses participants in an experimental movement theatre laboratory. The work is meticulous while open to surprises, counter-intuitively small, analogue, acoustic and on a fine scale - leading to performance pieces by the participants best seen in intimate settings -like that of Links Hall - where what seems impossible, is undeniably live. Composition and timing of each frame is needed for the whole to work, like with animation. Then those will be developed into movement theatre pieces: embodied composition. Participants should be ready for a rigorous hands-on compositional laboratory with an emphasis on the performance of laboratory generated work. This workshop will culminate in an open performance at Links Hall on October 8th.
See The Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo perform from their repertoire at the Prop Thtr, 8pm Thursday, September 29th, Friday, September 30th and Saturday, October 1st. $15 or pay what you can!
"Surreal Vaudeville, Lisa Fay
and Jeff Glassman belong in
some kind of genius category.
One is reminded of silent film
comedians and European circus
clowns, who hone their material
to its essence"
David Cuthbert
New Orleans Times-Picayune www.lisafayandjeffglassmanduo.org
# * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + *
October 8th at 10:30pm Prop Thtr presents the second of four nights honoring and looking at the video, film, painting, graphic, photographic work of Tom Pallazzolo, our Lolapalooza. Our lobby is at its historic finest as a gallery of his work and we will show his media work that Saturday night as well as the second Saturdays of November and December. A gifted Chicago Artist!
# * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * +
Our October guest Company: the Consortium Project with Den Of Thieves:
What: Den of Thieves
Why: Maggie is a newly single, junk-food-binging shoplifter looking to change her life and herself-hating ways. Paul is her passionately convicted, formerly four-hundred-poundcompulsive-overeating sponsor in a twelve-step program for recovering thieves. Maggie's jealousex-boyfriend is a charismatic wannabe Puerto Rican small-time thief of uncertain ancestry namedFlaco who spins a grammatically challenged but persuasive yarn about seven hundred and fiftythousand dollars in unprotected drug money sitting in a safe in a downtown disco guarded by aneasily distracted crackhead. This dubious and ragtag would-be criminal crew is rounded out byFlaco's new girlfriend, the fabulous Boochiea malaprop-slinging topless dancer who refuses to lether troubled childhood or her third-grade reading level stand in the way of her inevitable path tofame, fortune and fur. When things don't quite go according to plan, this bickering quartet ofhapless thieves finds themselves at the mercy of Louie "The Little Tuna" Pescatore, a reluctant,
donut-ingesting heir to the criminal empire run by his father"The Big Tuna"who has left him incharge for the weekend. The penalty for stealing from the Tuna is death"Ba Da Bing, Ba Da Boom." ButLouie offers them a break: "I need one body and three thumbs, you can choose the who, whys andwherefores among yourselves." Tied to chairs and able to move only their mouths, they must now fightfor their lives by out-arguing each other as to who deserves to live. Verbal gymnastics and thestruggle for self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-love produce a high-octane battle for survivalthat's not resolved until the last donut falls. - Dramatist Play Service, Inc.
When: Oct 06, 2011 8:00 PM - Oct 23, 2011 2:00 PM
Where: Prop Theatre, 3502 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL
Followed by: Point Of Contention's "All The Girls Love Bobby Kennedy" look out for that opening Friday October 28th!
# * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + * # * @ * + *
Coming in 2012: The longest running fringe festival in Chicago, January 13th - February 12th, 2012.
Coming January 13th - 
- February 12th, 2012
- February 12th, 2012
No comments:
Post a Comment