1) TEXT/PLAY/ORCHESTER: More like staged visual art than a traditional play, TEXT/PLAY/ORCHESTRA is a series of four group performances that elaborately explore that ways in which cellular technology can inform/impact a coordinated group action. The piece is context-less and abstract; participants are asked for a cell phone so that they can receive a series of simple messages. Spaced and sat among the audience in an orchestra-like arrangement, each "section" of performers is given a specific charge of items, and over the course of the piece a number of obscure obstructions via text messages, which they must attempt to perform in synchronization to the group around them. A conductor is responsible for the arrangement of the texts; though there is no story, an arresting set of uniformed actions, visuals and sounds play out.
TEXT/PLAY/ORCHESTER premiered at the 2010 IN/OUT FEST, September 17th, 2010.
2) PINEAPPLE LUST: A t 15 minute work about memory, love and survival, set in post post post post apocalyptic space. Two women in a spacecraft are continually, obsessively haunted by visions of fruit they've not ever tasted, so much so that one of them becomes pregnant with the collective memory. Presented using expressive narration, the show was originally scored for an overhead projector, shadow puppets, mild ballet, old family slideshows, and a string quartet.
Performed at Greenpoint Open Studio Performance Gallery in a stripped-down version. Full version forth-coming, at the Goddamn Cobras Supper Club, 2011.
3) ACRES OF CLAMS: Come one, come all to the mythical land of Western Washington, the Pacific Northwest, where the rivers flow with the sweat and tears of hard-skinned loggers, where the air smells of cedar trees and salmon skin, where the rain tastes like the salted tears of Kurt Cobain, and where pioneer sasquatches run heartily through the wood-planks streets! Based on Linda Allen's epic collection of Washington State folk music, WASHINGTON SONGS AND LORE, (originally compiled for the State Centennial), ACRES OF CLAMS: A TOUR THROUGH THE COMPLEX, DAMP, and POIGNANT HISTORY OF WASHINGTON STATE gives audiences an overview of all things Washington History; through the eyes of a hopeful pioneer woman, and her backup band of loggers, dancing Dungeness crabs, the state's famous exports, this is a variety show telling of a people, their state, and the rain-soaked forging of a regional identity.
Premiered at Arts in Bushwick's Bushwick Open Studios at the Bushwick Starr, March 6, 2011.
