THE otto CYCLE:

part iii: initiation into becoming animal

february 26 & 27th

8pm at TIMB

This is the third installment of the o++o cycle. You don't need the first two to see this one, but it won't hurt. In this story, we will learn more about the adventures of abstractions in lost mirrors, and in the performance, you will come to the house, and be invited inside for a party (you have to smoke outside is all). There, you will watch multi-layered media art mixed with live performance, and at one point, you will be taken into a room where you will be transformed, and have your fortune told.

The theme of this performance is Becoming Animal, and we intend to open up our instincts so that we can breathe easier in the world, and you are invited to do the same.

This is a performance that has some interaction, but no one will sing to you (maybe not entirely true, but not in the las vegas-y way), and you will not be asked to make funny quips for a happy crowd. This is a performance/ritual that will open up ideas about performance, and generate dialogue here in this desert community, because no city as big as this should be this absurdly closed in on itself...

tell people to come, and do that yourself--

love love love,

timb

www.timb.org

February 26 & 27th

8pm-10pm

$5.

Reserve at 602 540-3225

or at

christopher.danowski@gmail.com

ABOUT THE otto CYCLE

Because we are in Poland, that is to say, nowhere, and because it is my heart, 2009-2010 will see 4 new works of media/performance/ritual, called the otto cycle, based in structure around the Kongo notion of the four movements of the sun.

Every two months, we will be presenting one of each of these four works, for an invited audience, and perform the cycle in its entirety in May, 2010.

The first segment, “o++o: the city of death,” will be part of ¡Teatro Caliente! this year, October 29-31.

Keep an eye on this space for more updates, and write us or call if you are as tired as we are of performance without heart, head, and body, and want to hear from you.  Most of you.

This work is based on some of the things that happened in Berlin, some new ideas on how to merge technology that entrances with ritual that transports, without losing intelligence in the process of embracing those elusive salamanders. 

915 W. Fillmore, 85007

602 540-3225

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

Thank you for participating in this conspiracy.

And spread the word.

YOU CAN FIND US ON MYSPACE (www.myspace.com/sotano ) AND FACEBOOK (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phoenix-AZ/Theater-in-My-Basement/155071177428?ref=ts), 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."