NEXT:

(+/o) Cuerpo-Real* (o/+)

(*SUR)

A new performance piece by

Chris Danowski

with Matt Watkins (dramaturg, etc.)

& performance/collaborations with

Portia Beacham, Courtenay Cholovich, Tiffinie Greer, Jonathan Hernandez, Xchel Hernandez-Zendejas, & Wilana White Coyote

July 17th & 18th.

8pm

915 W. Fillmore, 85007

$5.50 (cheaper than a movie)

((and it is a movie too))

(((and the performers are all in 3-d, just like u)))

Before heading out to Europe while things cool down here, we're presenting a work-in-progress version of this multi-media performance work.

The version you'll see here will be rough, the rituals will be in the middle of their own transfigurations, and the video will be a blueprint. We're doing this in development stages, to try out what we have so far in front of a very intimate audience.

This would be you.

Space is extremely limited. So call 602 540-3225 to reserve space.

There are futons on the floor in this extremely well air-conditioned space, with a fuzzy old cat who will come and speak during the performance. There might be hookahs, but we're looking at the budget. Oh, so if you have a hookah, then feel free to bring it.

Smoking, as always, is on the spacious southern porch with a northern view.

And spread the word.

Taking the idea of bones in the ground, bones that speak, bones that walk over bones that decompose, bones that think from the land of the living, bones that think about other bones, the ones beneath the ground, bones that speak about speaking bones.  We start from here, and from here we excavate visions and images from the darkest parts of our darkest nights, and make things from the images, and play against the other thing we’re creating.

There is also a text, a text of a play that’s written but doesn’t really exist, not yet, and probably not after the yet.  This play is called “Gone Frozen,” and is a series of segments, or remnants, of an attempt to excavate dead desires from sleeping ghosts, in an experiment that did not go well at all. 

In Cuerpo-Reality, we are live performers performing live in front of projections of a movie version of a play called “Gone Frozen,” a movie that did not go well, not at all.  We are live performers but we are performing as if from the land of the dead, from the rehearsal halls of the decomposing, we are performing from the rehearsal halls of the decomposing.

Using the metaphors that live in the minds of the dead, we are playing the personas of the ones who are struggling for control of the bodies of the living, to tell the histories of the things that happened here, on the dirt, and the cycles of regeneration and decomposition that happen here, above and below the ground.

To be presented in parts at TIMB, June-July, 2009.

And at Space 55’s “7 Minutes in Heaven” June 27th

YOU CAN FIND US ON MYSPACE (www.myspace.com/sotano ) AND FACEBOOK, BUT IF YOU DON’T HAVE THOSE, AND WANT ANNOUNCEMENTS, SEND AN EMAIL TO christopher.danowski@gmail.com

Welcome to the official website for Theater In My Basement/SW Annex (aka TIMB, aka the BASEMENT, aka not aka 47, we are revolutionaries but not in armed resistance, pero vive la résistance...!)

We are Phoenix-based and dedicated to experimental performance, creating new, transcultural works of mediated visceral intelligence, and participating in all manner of collaborations (dada, zapatista, free trade coffee, rhizomatic speaking subjects, body art, glue).

Arriba arriba,

TIMB

http://www.myspace.com/sotano

We are dedicated to work that addresses where we are geographically and philosophically, and are interested in investigating the places where these intersect on a mutually determined glocal table/playing field. As a collective, we are already born with many tongues, and some of us have two or three, which makes speech difficult but entirely possible. We are developing a style of performance that speaks to bilingual (and multilingual) audiences, utilizing subaltern, alternative modes of presentation, technologically and philosophically reconfiguring the dna of a post-consumer idea of a thought of a notion. We do not dance.

To contact us, send an email to chris@timb.org or teatrocaliente@gmail.com

We are a Non-Profit, with 501(c)(3) status, and do accept tax-deductable donations. To make a donation, send a check payable to TIMB and mail to:

TIMB

915 W. Fillmore St.

Phoenix, AZ 85007

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Mandar obedeciendo."