public event history
Since
1977 about eighty percent of our work has been executed
behind closed doors in
private ritual labs.
Once in
awhile, the results of our experiments have developed
into work
deserving of an audience. Since 1999,
we
have witnessed a greater frequency of these public
performances and events.
Directed
by Antero Alli. (click
images for production details)
Public Witnessing of a Paratheatre Session
Monday Dec. 18th, 2006. 9pm, Finnish Brotherhood Hall
1970 Chestnut, Berkeley. Free admisson.
participants
SYLVI ALLI, JULIAN SIMEON, JOJO RAZOR,
NICK WALKER, ROBIN COOMER, ANTERO ALLI,
JOSHUA BEWIG, KATE GIBSON, ALASKA YAMADA
Sylvi Alli, Nick Walker, Antero Alli
RITUAL TRIGGERS
Paratheatre Demonstration
with Sylvi Alli, Nick Walker and Antero Alli.
Sun. March 5th, 2006. 7:30pm, Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut, Berkeley
This is a rare public demonstration of paratheatre techniques that can act
as "triggers" to the spontaneous expression of energy sources in the body.
When used correctly they can be applied towards live performance, private
work on self and in conjunction with almost any medium of group ritual
dynamics. This demo also introduces the upcoming ALCHEMY LAB.
Rainer
Maria Rilke's "REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND"
An
Intermedia Performance Ritual (May
2005)
Leah
Kahn, Sylvi Alli, Felecia Faulkner, Paradox Pollack,
Nick Walker, Lee Vogt, Antero Alli .
A reprise of the
1990 paratheatrical treatment (see below) of Rilke's
lyrical lament as a live
performance that
was filmed and then, incorporated into "The
Greater Circulation" a
feature
dv-film project. Translated by Stephen Mitchell.
Music by Sean Blosl and
Songs
as Vehicles.
ParaTheatrical ReSearch. May
21, 22, 28, 29, 2005. Finnish Brotherhood Hall, Berkeley .
"Songs as Vehicles" (12/20/04)
A
Winter Solstice Performance Ritual. Each
performer worked with one song each for three months,
chosen from their genetic ancestry, towards building
a kind of vehicle for expressing that song’s
mystery.
Ten ancestral sources, ten songs -- six with
lyrics, four wordless melodies -- presented as solos,
duets, trios,
quartets, quintets and ever-expanding
arrangements of group cacophonies. Everybody was singing
a different
song. At Finnish Brotherhood Hall in Berkeley. Click
this for ritual lab notes.
Audio recordings of these songs on CD, available 2/20/05. Click this for more info
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"Orphans of Delirium" (March 2004)
Performance
ritual incorporating Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla
Khan. Haunted by the deaths of his
friends
and loved ones, an actor drifts through the reveries
of an
absinthe binge that erupts in a bevy of
strange ritualistic
dreams from which he periodically awakens and lapses
back into. This story unravelled
throughout a series of four
convulsive initiatic
rituals executed by eleven performers. Click
this for
director's ritual journal entries.
One night at CELLspace in San Francisco and two
nights at
Wildcat Studio in Berkeley.
DVD Available: click this for details
"Initiations" (11/15/03)
A rare lecture demonstration
on paratheatre techniques with Antero Alli, Nick Walker,
Paradox Pollack,
Serene Zloof, John Michael Doyle
and Gabriel Dietz at CELLspace, SF. This event also
served as an
introduction to the winter 2003/04
initiations
lab
"Hungry Ghosts of Albion" (May 1999)
A Two-Act Dream Play written by Antero Alli.
The ghosts of Sir Isaac Newton
and William Blake
are shipwrecked on a raft
and lost at sea. They also have a few bones to pick.
When not driving each
other mad with empirical proofs
and visionary deleriums, they fall asleep and dream
Zak and Aggie into
existence: two modernday
lovers making a short film together based on a scene
from Anton Chekhov's,
THE SEA GULL. Paratheatre
techniques were used in rehearsing two other characters,
Anima and Daemon
(above right image) who orchestrate
the two couples' dreams into a quizzical ritual of
mystical madness.
Three weekends at Noh Space, San
Francisco.
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"Requiem For a Friend" (October 1990)
An
Intermedia Performance Ritual based on Rainer Maria
Rilke's lyrical lament, "Requiem For a Friend"
(translated by Stephen Mitchell). Three women portray
three facets of one woman -- the mother, the
artist
and the soul torn between -- while
simultaneously
undergoing their own distinct ritual actions within
a
physical set of one black wall (40ft wide x 8ft
high), through which each woman is seen behind her
own
large framed opening: the mother rocks
an infant to sleep (within a large painting frame),
the artist creates
a painting (as seen through
a large window) and the soul torn between slowly
unfolds an abstract dance
of death (inside a large "mirror"). Two weekends at the Bell Gallery
in downtown (Belltown) Seattle.
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