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ANTERO ALLI
founder/director (since 1977)

This website documents a group paratheatre medium
developed by Antero Alli that combines techniques
of theatre, movement, song and Zazen meditation
 in non-performance and performance modalities
to access and express the internal landscape.

Participation by invitation and/or an interview
 with the director. All inquiries welcome.
(contact points at bottom of page).

WHAT'S NEW?
(updated 1/8/2012)

who we are, what we do, the entry interview, f.a.q.





WHO WE ARE
The Core Group, List of Past Participants,
Testimonials, Director Bio

WHAT WE DO
Lab Schedules and Prerequisites, Introductory Reading Material,
Public Event History, Previous Lab Themes & Journals

THE ENTRY INTERVIEW
For those interested in doing this work

paratheatre f.a.q
what is paratheatre?

 

three areas of paratheatre work



PARATHEATRICAL RESEARCH WORKSPACE, BERKELEY CALIFORNIA

After three decades in this paratheatre medium I have noticed three overlapping areas of work through which our process develops and evolves. These stages unfold as a continuum -- no graduations, no final arrivals -- with each area of work nurturing and influencing each other. -- Antero Alli

 

SHADOW WORK
Rituals and movement forms that serve the exposure of unconscious and sometimes self-destructive attitudes, complexes, and beliefs towards their transformation into more conscious, creative expression. Shadow work aims to make the unconscious conscious with the assistance of technique work.

TECHNIQUE WORK
 The structural integrity of this ritual technology is maintained by a web of techniques that include: No-Form, Polarizations, Contact Point, Vocalizations, Verticality, The Warm-Up Cycles, Resonance, Service, Containment, Immersion, Movement Vocabulary, Spatial Awareness, Jogging Forms, and Ritual Actions. The overall purpose of paratheatre technique is to bring more precision and clarity of form to the expression of source work.

SOURCE WORK
 Any process that enables more direct experience of the currents of energy in the body itself and its enveloping field or aura, and the internal landscape of the soul's domain. The aim of source work is to expand the capacity to give of oneself to a given source, force, or energy state, towards its embodied expression in amplified presence, physical movement, ritual action, sounds and songs, and symbolic gesture.

 

director interviews, manifesto, artifacts, essays, links




Antero Alli

ANTERO ALLI INTERVIEWED
 on paratheatre techniques, principles, processes
"State of Emergence"
A Paratheatre Manifesto by Alli




ARTIFACTS
 "Towards an Archeology of the Soul" (workbook)
 "Crux", "Archaic Community", "Orphans of Delirium" (3 dvds)
"Songs as Vehicles" (CD); other books and films by Antero Alli
and Music CDs by Sylvi Alli

PARATHEATRE ESSAYS
by Antero Alli and others

 

 


paratheatre sites -- intermedia performers -- dangerous ideas -- dreaming cultures

 

 

contact points



Address all correspondence to Antero Alli
[email protected] OR [email protected]
 P.O. Box 10144, Berkeley, CA 94709 USA
voice-mail (510) 464-4640

site map

 

MP3
SONGS HEARD ON THIS WEB PAGE ARE SUNG SIMULTANEOULSY BY
SYLVI ALLI ("Wayfaring Stranger") and ROBIN COOMER ("Danny Boy")
as part of the ParaTheatrical ReSearch "Song as Vehicle" project and CD

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