PARATHEATRICAL RESEARCH PRESENTS
"ORPHANS OF DELIRIUM"
"In
this lively treatise, eleven participants writhe,
grunt, and spasmodically
twitch
live onstage to achieve
spiritual intoxication.
Despite the way-outness of the
material, Alli's
style is fluid,
thoughtful and elegant... an intriguing
challenge."
--
Gregory Weinkauf, East
Bay Express
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a paratheatre video document by antero alli
(2004; 84 min., digital video, B/W & color)
In 1977, Antero Alli initiated the development of a paratheatre
medium,
inspired by the late Polish theatre director, Jerzy Grotowski,
combining techniques of physical theatre, abstract dance and Zazen
meditation to access and express the internal landscape. Over the next
twenty years,
Alli works in almost exclusive privacy with dancers,
singers
and performers helping them expand their craft. In 2003, his paratheatre
workbook "TOWARDS AN ARCHEOLOGY OF THE SOUL" is published and
in 2004, he produces "ORPHANS OF DELIRIUM", a video document of
eleven performers applying his methods before a live audience at CELLSpace,
San Francisco. In this video, Antero also discusses the "Delirium" experiment with two of its performers, Nick Walker and Paradox Pollack, as they grapple with finding the language
to
convey their often overwhelming experiences.
Nick Walker (left) and Paradox Pollack (right)
"Occasionally our private paratheatre work develops, matures and ripens
towards
public performance. This happened with the processes
leading up
to
Orphans of Delirium,
a four-part ritual story
of eleven archetypes vying
for domination within the psyche of an actor on an
absinthe binge;
I see it as a kind of an extreme symbolist ritual." -- Antero Alli
featuring
PARADOX
POLLACK,
NICK WALKER, ANTERO
ALLI,
BRIAN LIVINGSTON, JULIAN SIMEON,
ALASKA
YAMADA,
SERENE
ZLOOF, JUSTIN PALERMO, JAKOB BOKULICH,
DESMONDE
DAISY, GABRIEL, and ADAM PALERMO.
Videography
by Steve Mobia, Sean Christopher and Antero Alli.
Music & soundscape by Sylvi
Alli. Edited by Chris
Odell and Antero Alli.
Directed by Antero Alli. Produced by Vertical
Pool & ParaTheatrical ReSearch.
THE DVD
available only from the filmmaker
ABOUT
THE LIVE PERFORMANCE
story, program notes,
more pix
DIRECTOR'S
RITUAL JOURNAL ENTRIES
observations from the
pre-performance lab
PRODUCTION NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR
AND TWO PERFORMERS
Antero Alli, Jakob Bokulich
and Nick Walker on their experiences
about the filmmaker
Antero Alli has been producing work in the mediums of paratheatre and theatre since 1975 and, experimental video documentaries and feature fiction films since 1993. His paratheatre work is documented in his book, "Towards an Archeology of the Soul" (Vertical Pool, 2003) and in his videos "CRUX", "Archaic Community" and "Orphans of Delirium". Alli's 2005 docufiction feature, "The Greater Circulation", incoporates paratheatre processes in a critically acclaimed cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend". Since 1996, Antero has been conducting group paratheatre labs in Berkeley California where he currently resides with his wife, the singer/composer Sylvi Alli.
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