Bridges: Red Dirt Rites, Bbbl, and Conjuré
A performance Triptych emerges from the Bridges project:
Red Dirt Rites, Bbbl, and Conjuré
Red Dirt Rites is an invocation. A threshold crossed, traveling. The wounded healer manifest, she/he is easy on the eyes and covered in red dirt. (Re)memebering in the blue light is the holding on, the letting go.
In Bbbl‘s dreamlike world, the construction of specific language, technology, materialism, and isolation results in the demolition of language, meaning and the exploration what it truly means to be human.
Developing, raw & organic, Conjuré navigates a performative pathway unearthed during the unsettling merging of variant cultural legacies; culling the collective creative process of sharing truths, ancestral traditions and “recipes”.
The Bridges program is a new multidisciplinary performance event creating passageways across art forms, cultures, aesthetics, borders, and traditions.
Bridges artists 2009:
Reginald Edmund, Virginia Grise, Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe, Jessica Huang, Stacy Lee King, Teresa Konechne, and Baraka de Soleil
Curated by: Dipankar Mukherjee, Meena Natarajan, and J. Otis Powell!
Bridges has used Open Space Technology as methodology for our work since the program was conceived in 2006. OST assumes the resourcefulness of the artists we invite into the circle and encourages them to teach each other and us (the curators) how to arrive at points of theatrical productions. We “journey together” as Dipankar – curator and artistic director of Pangea World Theater is fond of saying, through this technology as a vehicle. We use Open Space Technology because the hierarchy of conventional theater is like the structure of Western Civilization and we want another paradigm for our work. We want form to follow content and our substance desires different shapes. Meeting in openness and gathering in a circle are ancient and simple ways of acknowledging the value of our associates and working together as collaborators is how we believe the world was made. So we begin this way again to remake it like it was before it went astray.
J. Otis Powell! – Writer, performance artist, educator, curator, producer, consultant and arts administrator. He is a practitioner of Open Space Technology and has used OST for more than seventeen years with notable success in various productions, in educational scenarios, in administrative consultations and as a means to resolve conflicts.
Co-presented with Intermedia Arts through their Catalyst Series
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