RAP 2013-14 | RESIDENT ARTIST SHOWINGS
KATHARINE SCARBOROUGH
MYTH KEEPER
Performances May 26 – 27, 2014
Written by Ariel Stess
Can we escape our stories or must we become them? An original work exploring a family’s crisis through original text, neo-fairy tales, and mythology.
NEW SALOON
TROPES
Performances May 26 – 27, 2014
Created by New Saloon
“I’m thirty-five and already worn out.” TROPES: a new play for the weepy by Anton Chekhov and New Saloon.
STEPHANIE HAYES & EMILY REILLY
THE INHERITANCE LAB
Performances March 26 – 27, 2014
Created by Stephanie Hayes and Emily Reilly
A cross-disciplinary research laboratory, investigating ways of making performance through the process of observation and inheritance.
EMMA WISEMAN
ANOTHER LONELY ASTRONAUT
Performances March 28 – 29, 2014
Created by Emma Wiseman
A work of puppetry, movement, and voice that takes a quirky and meditative look at a space explorer’s journey to the moon.
ARIEL STESS
THE CROWN HEIGHTS PROJECT
Performances May 28 – 29, 2014
Written by Ariel Stess
A monologue-diagram that investigates the changing neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
SOOMI KIM
TESTING TESTING
Performances May 28 – 29, 2014
Created by Soomi Kim
Through dance and performance, Soomi Kim and Mark Taylor reveal idiosyncratic and obsessive nature of famous recording artists.
ZAINAB MUSA
ENOUGH
Performances May 30 – 31, 2014
Created by Zainab Musa
Inspired by cultural observation, Enough is a selection of movement and text scores. An inquiry into a process that generates a movement vocabulary for the artist’s future live performance work.
GARDINER COMFORT
UNTITLED
Performances May 30 – 31, 2014
Created by Gardiner Comfort
A solo performance based on Comfort’s experience with Tourette Syndrome, using movement and original text.
ZILVINAS JUNSAS
THE CASTLE
Performances May 30 – 31, 2014
Created by Zilvinas Junsas
“This funny word ‘Suicide.’ Who goes for it and who takes the Plan B? Dance, movement, text and definitely somebody who almost drowns.”
PAULINA BARROS
THE COMFORT OF NUMBERS
Performances May 31 – June 1, 2014
Created by Paulina Barros
An exploration of the links between art & science, different cultures, and different people through the glass of theatre, dance and sound installation.