Participant: Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman
Format: Workshop
Themes: recursion, praxis

Following our live evening performance and taking that performance as the starting point, this workshop will reveal the inner workings of the pieces that were concealed by the performing. Hiding reveals, obscuring makes obvious – these and other counter-intuitive, stability-seeking phenomena create the dynamic tension we name live theatre. We will engage ideas through discussion, view working scores (graphic notations used in composing our movement based theatre pieces) and try out ideas with our bodies (embodying ideas).

While our pieces are imbued with humor and what seem like physical impossibilities, our concern is with the social implications that can be drawn from the work. The material of our work is decidedly small, analogue, acoustic and on a fine scale – leading to theatre pieces best seen in intimate settings where the seeming impossibilities are undeniably live. And as with animation, exacting composition and timing of each ‘frame’ is necessary for the whole to work. This scale is not trivial – neither in our work nor in considering social phenomena.

Finally, our work is meticulous while remaining open to the surprises and insights of new form. We make in order to know something we don’t yet know. We would like that this premise be our starting point for discussion.