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Returning from One Place to Another:
A Poet’s Theater Showcase
Curated by John Beer, Links Hall Artistic Associate
May 2-25, 2008
The works featured in Returning from One Place
to Another: A Poet’s Theater Showcase come out of a tradition
which seeks to use theatrical space as a medium for poetic composition.
While this description fits some major figures of the theatrical
avant-garde, such as Artaud or Richard Foreman, the artists that
are central to this work primarily view the theater as an extension
of their writing practice. Drawing inspiration from the operas of
Gertrude Stein or the plays of Frank O’Hara, each program
consists of a set of works for performance that retain a focus on
language and structure while potentially abandoning traditional
elements of narrative or staging. In each case, a visiting artist
is working with local collaborators for the first time to create
a novel theatrical evening.
Program One:
Rodringo Toscano/Collapsible
Poetics Theater, with Joshua Corey, Melissa Severin, and Fred Sasaki
Program Two:
Joyelle McSweeney
and Johannes Göransson, with Patrick Durgin, Jennifer Karmin,
and Jacob S. Knabb
Program Three:
Fiona Templeton,
with Joel Craig and Laura Goldstein
Program Four:
Carla Harryman, with
Pam Osbey, Jennifer Scappettone, and David Trinidad
SPECIAL
EVENT
Poet’s Theater Panel Discussion
Saturday, May 3, 2-3:30pm
at Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone
Free
This panel will provide context for and insight into the work of
the artists performing throughout the Poet’s Theater festival.
Panelists will examine such questions as: What is Poet's Theater,
and is it its own genre, a hybrid genre, or a way of resisting genres?
How have poetry and performance influenced one another over the
past century? How does the idea of Poet's Theater relate to larger
questions about the avant-garde? What is the future for Poet's Theater?
The panel will include poets, performers, and critics: Jenny
Magnus of Curious Theatre Branch, Matthew Goulish of Goat Island
Performance Group, Rodrigo Toscano, and Jennifer Scappettone.
www.experimentalstation.org
It’s only recently that the
idea of a Poet’s Theater could be anything but redundant.
What, after all, were Sophocles, Shakespeare, or Moliere up to?
But the last two hundred years saw a divorce between primarily realistic
modes of theater and a lyric poetry rooted in subjective experience.
The work presented here seeks a reconciliation that creates new
possibilities for both poetry and performance.
– John Beer, Curator
ALSO IN MAY:
Julia Mayer, Coffee Dance
Friday, May 2, 9:30am
Free
BYOC (bring your own coffee)
Once a month, Julia Mayer opens her weekly Friday morning solo movement
practice to the public. In this ongoing series of engaged, informal
performances, her idiosyncratic movement adventures are an invitation
to watch, feel, and find creative impulse in unexpected places.
The performance will last approximately 20 minutes. Julia Mayer
is a 2007/08 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist.
[her] movement is refreshingly off the map - Chicago
Reader
a delicately luminous, inquisitive stage presence - TimeOut
Chicago
UPRISING #5
part of Columbia College Chicago’s Manifest celebration
Friday May 16, 2008
Time and specific location TBD
More information on
UPRISING and its partner project EVIDENCE, by Nicole Garneau.
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