Monthly Archives: July 2015

1 Jul, 2015

Text on stage

2015-07-01T02:01:41-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

Text does strange things on the stage. For a trained actor, a bit of Chekhov can inaugurate an entire style of performance, with certain assumptions about what's real, what kind of feeling is most powerful, how to get to that feeling. After turning away from text, towards gesture, task, state, other ways of articulating presence, we've been returning to our theatrical training to try to see what happens when a fiction is established on a stage. We've been trying to

25 Jul, 2015

The River

2016-02-02T02:57:22-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Liz Tenuto|Tags: , , , , , , |

Focusing on wellness and self help during the process of creating "This Year Is Different..." has been both illuminating and challenging. This morning I read "The River" by Thich Nhat Hanh. I'm sharing it here because it describes a process of self understanding similar to my personal transformation instigated by creating this piece for the Artist-In-Residence Program. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Once upon a time there was a beautiful river finding her way among the hills, forests, and meadows. She began by being a

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