The first group of artists-in-residence for the spring season at the Watermill Center present a three-part physical warm-up, followed by several short pieces based on themes and topics covered in their first week at the Center. Tentatively, this will revolve around, or at least touch on, the enormous amount of [...]
Artist Daria Martin, composer Zeena Parkins, and actor Nina Fog present an evolved iteration of their performance Object Relations. At the Watermill Center, they will be pushing their collaboration in a new direction, adapting it for a film dealing with childhood anxieties, Martin's Harpstrings and Lava. This open rehearsal, then, [...]
A one-hour lecture/demonstration for adults. Elke and her colleague, Kira Alker, will perform some of the Decroux technique, show some video footage of Decroux and Thomas Leabhart, and show a selection from Elke's contemporary piece Happy Songs for Sad Days. About Corporeal Mime Developed by Etienne Decroux (1898-1991) in the [...]
The Cenci is Antonin Artuaud's only fully realized attempt at putting on stage what he set out to describe in his revolutionary Theater of Cruelty manifestos. Based on an infamous trial and inspired by Stendahl's sordid case history, as well as Shelley's impassioned venture into realms theatrical, Artaud's version of [...]
Makram Hamdan introduces his new company, Makram Hamdan Dance Company, at an open rehearsal of a new work-in-progress. The choreographic work being explored by Makram Hamdan is based on the traditional Arabic music compositions, maq'am and taqsim. It dissects and reassembles movement as a musical composition, utilizing the virtuosity of [...]
As an integral part of the third biennial New York Butoh Festival, Ximena Garnica directs a new interdisciplinary performance piece inspired by traditional Japanese ghost stories (kaidan) and the Edo-era practice of telling these tales by progressively diminishing candlelight (hyaku monogatari). Collaborating artists include composer Billy Fox, the Kitsune Ensemble; [...]
Chevaux Légers, a Brazilian theater company that focuses on audience participation, research, and adaptation of literary works for theater, will spend a month at the Watermill Center working on JULIETTE, an adaptation of the Marquis de Sade work, Histoire de Juliette. They will work on staging, costume design, and set [...]
The Gospel According to Jack Vitrolo is an experimental tragi-comedy that examines the conflict between the individual and the health care establishment. Following the struggle of one man's search for his pregnant wife, kidnapped by paramedics in an ambulance and now lost in a large municipal hospital, The Gospel According [...]
