TERRA INCOGNITA
Presented as part of the New Voices in Live Performance Series
CPR (Center for Performance Research)
May 17 + 18 at 7:30pm
Created and written by:
Gabriel Baron
Melissa Brown
Ross Cowan
Mike James
Rachael Richman
Directed by Jess K Smith and Anna Brenner
Choreography by Yael Nashajon
Environment by Julia Przedmojska
Lighting by Dante Olivia Smith
About the piece:
We came together as friends and frequent collaborators excited to create something new together, using improvisational and generative techniques to enhance our practices of storytelling, theatre, and dance. We began the work by sharing photographs and writing fictional and true stories about them. These became maps for possible performance. We decided that having a map allowed us to wander off the path. The essence of this project has been to explore and be open to the unknown and to communicate intangible experience to an audience. We strive to be precise, but open and present; we strive to find real meaning in the immaterial.