BUY TICKETS ONLINE: http://www.dktm4.eventbrite.com

SHOW INFO: www.kingsnthings.org

The show is all ages, but take note that the show may include mature language and themes.

*Standby line: In the instance that tickets sellout online, a standby line will be available the night of each show. If tickets are not claimed prior to 15 minutes before the show starts, they will be resold to the public for $10 cash (per ticket).

THE GENERIC ENSEMBLE COMPANY PRESENTS
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

UNA CORDA (A RITUAL)

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY KT SHORB      

DIRECTED BY YVAN GREENBERG

SEPTEMBER 10–12

Friday, September 10 at 8pm

Saturday September 11 at 2pm and 8pm

Sunday September 12 at 2pm

BLUE THEATRE MAINSTAGE, 916 Springdale Road, Austin, TX

Tickets are $15, $12 for students, seniors, and starving artists. Cash or check accepted at the door. Tickets can be reserved online at http://www.genericensemblecompany.blogspot.com.

Una Corda is a ritual meditation on the spiritual and emotional effects of cancer and the experience of witnessing the destruction and loss caused by the disease. This solo show is an original rite, using rigorous physicality and stream-of-consciousness text based on shorb’s experience nursing three women undergoing cancer treatment. Blurring the line between ceremony, happening, and autobiography, Una Corda asks the question: How do we not lose sight of ourselves when surrounded by loss itself?

Created by performer/writer kt shorb in collaboration with director Yvan Greenberg, Una Corda uses Greenberg’s signature layering of choreography, text, imitation and indeterminacy alongside shorb’s explorations of intimacy, failure, and frenetic action to create visceral movements, objects, and atmospheres. Drawing influences from Noh theatre, Bugaku, and Japanese Buddhist ceremonies, the ritual takes place in the liminal spaces between life and death, presence and oblivion, redemption and loss.

The piece also includes scenic painting by Sarah Sage, costuming by Irene Roderick and poetry by Kimberly Alidio.
Una Corda was made possible by the Alma de Mujer Artist in Residence Program, Co-Lab, The University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.

MORE MORE MORE

 What people are saying about the artists’ work:

shorb:
“I love what kt shorb does and how she does it, both onstage and off.  Whatever she is up to is not to be missed.” –Anne Bogart, Artistic Director of the SITI Company

“…entertaining, controversial, memorable…”–Emily Ascolese, The Oberlin Review

Greenberg:
“…ironic, weird, experimental, anti-dramatic, and compelling…” –Alisa Solomon, The Village Voice
“Inane, insane, mundane…esthetic purity under the guise of the absurd.” –Amanda MacBlaine, NY Press
“Yvan Greenberg’s choreography [is] a strange brew of awkward gestures and simple but evocative movement phrases.”   –Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

Bios:
kt shorb is a director, performer, writer and founder of the Generic Ensemble Company. She has trained in Suzuki Actor Training and Viewpoints with the SITI Company and Zen Zen Zo. She was a founding member of Stamp Lab, winner of the 2008 ArtSpark Festival and the 2009 FronteraFest “Best of Fest.” Acting credits include: “Sadako” in Relativity, “Nina” in T.A.G., “Claude/Ventriloquist” in HUSH, “Reverend” in Why Koreans Don’t Hug, and in the solo show of chicks, dicks, and chinks. Directing credits include:  Eagle Woman Poems, Stuck on Gee-Dot, Drawn and Quartered, Piri!, and by a quiet sea. shorb has presented her work on multiple college campuses, including Oberlin College, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin.

Yvan Greenberg founded Laboratory Theater in 2001 and has since directed the ensemble in eleven original pieces. His work has been presented in New York by PS 122, HERE Arts Center, The Brick Theater, Dixon Place, The Tank, chashama, TIXE, New Dramatists, The Performing Garage, The Knitting Factory, and Movement Research, among others. In February 2007, Laboratory Theater was the first Artist-in-Residence at Dixon Place, helping them establish an on-going residency program. Greenberg was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2006. In addition to his work with Laboratory Theater, he directs Murphy, an experimental music-theater piece by composer Corey Dargel and playwright Honor Molloy, which was awarded the New Dramatists’ 2007 Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater. Laboratory Theater will premiere their newest piece, GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES, October 14–30 at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, NY. Greenberg is also an associate of The Wooster Group. http://www.laboratorytheater.org/

The Generic Ensemble Company (GenEnCo) makes the invisible visible through bold, socially relevant, body-centered theatre. http://www.genericensemblecompany.blogspot.com/ ]]> http://bluetheatre.org/2010/08/1037/feed/ 1 http://bluetheatre.org/2010/08/i-witness/ http://bluetheatre.org/2010/08/i-witness/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:59:09 +0000 BLUE THEATRE http://bluetheatre.org/?p=788 I WITNESS

AN EVENING OF DANCE AND SPOKEN WORD

WITH CHOREOGRAPHY BY AMANDA OAKLY, SHAWN NASRALLA AND JENNIFER MICALLEF

LIGHTING AND SET DESIGN BY NATALIE GEORGE

20 August – 4 September

Friday, August 20 at 8pm  OPENING NIGHT!

Saturday, August 21 at 8pm

Thursday-Saturday, August 26, 27, 28 at 8pm

Thursday-Saturday, September 2, 3, 4 at 8pm

BLUE THEATRE MAINSTAGE, 916 Springdale Road, Austin, TX

Special Advance Purchase Ticket Pricing is Available at http://www.tuttotheatre.org for purchases made before midnight, THURSDAY, 19 August, powered by PayPal.

TICKETS: THURSDAYS – SATURDAYS $15 Cash or Check at the Door

(Starving Artist Rate: $12; Starving Theatre Co. Rate: $20)

THURSDAYS ARE PAY-What-You-CAN w/Donation of Non-Perishable Canned Food Item. (Otherwise: $12)

Donations to Benefit Hope Food Pantry of Trinity United Methodist Church

. . . . .

We are witnesses to the world around us, and yet we are also an inexorable part of each scene, often simultaneously, the viewer and the viewed. As such we are presented with a deluge of choices: Detachment? Attachment? Do we choose to see? To see nothing? To look too intently? To look away? How many of us simply stand apart from our own lives? What do we choose to witness? Our lives? Our truth? Our discoveries? Our growth? Our failures? Our friends? Our neighbors? What happens when we truly see an object, an event, a scene, or another individual? What is really there? Who do we become?

I Witness features the artistic contributions of dancers: Amanda Cevallos, Kalani Hawks, Jennifer Micallef, Shawn Nasralla, Amanda Oakley, Ryan Parent, and Randi Turkin; Lighting Designer Natalie George.

Founded in 2002, TUTTO Theatre Company set out to elevate cross-disciplinary communication in the Austin artistic community. In 2008, the artistic ambition to enhance the expanding arts community in Austin was fused to our original purpose. We remain committed to a re-investigation of history, both in the modern sense of what has come before us and in the ancient and medieval sense of a story to be told. For, we believe, it is by gazing unflinchingly at this doubled horizon: history, that we may seek to re-envision the world. For, in theatre we may imagine a history, tell a story, which allows us to build a more desirable future. ‘Tutto’ is Italian for ‘everything,’ the name celebrates this conjunction.

photo by: Daniel Brock | http://www.danielbrock.com/

The Basics of Lighting Workshop

Monday, July 26th 7-10pm at the BLUE THEATRE

Learn the basic elements of lighting and explore the anatomy of the lighting of a scene.

We’ll play with a wide range of actual light fixtures and study light they create.

Do you have a light fixture you can bring? Please email me@austinfilmmeet.com.

FRIDAY, JULY 23 @ 8pm
There Be Dragons by Jenny Connell

There Will Be Dragons is the story of a three-hundred-and-twelve-year-old dragon girl who falls for a boy from Texas, the story of a young Minnesota mother whose old lover, a dragon, flies in for a visit one cold winter night, and a meditation on what happens when our stories get real.

Mosey on over to the BLUE for a frosty cold one, some tasty BBQ, and one heckuva sweet new play. We’ll b kicking up our heels to some great live music after the show!

Tickets are $12 online or $15 at the door  Click here to purchase

Show Info: http://www.shrewdproductions.com