Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
Do you have a work-in-progress that you wish to share with the community, or build upon - using more voices and bodies than just your own? Do you wish to build a performance art piece from scratch along with other performing artists? Are you excited about the idea of showcasing your work in a beautiful outdoor setting?
LET’S DO IT!
Theatre in the Field 2021
Call to Audition!
Seeking Performing Artists for:
“In Defense of Dandelions” - A workshopped collaboration exploring shifting energies of our time.
About:
This is a first-time free alternative theatre workshop with the goal of building new performance artwork through director-led and self-led movement, sound, and improv work. Participants will be led in intimate direction through a series of performance exercises, with the goal of crafting their works in progress, and developing new works together. We welcome new and seasoned performers. Seeking people with passion, imagination, and a desire to collaborate. Auditions, rehearsals, and final performances will take place in a field on the side of Mt. Kearsarge - at Kearsarge Gore Farm in Warner, NH.
Auditions:
Auditions will be held at Kearsarge Gore Farm in Warner, New Hampshire on Monday, June 21st, 2021 from 5:30-7:30 pm, and Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 from 5:30-7:30 pm.
Ringing in that summer solstice light! Rehearsals set to begin the week following July 4th weekend.
Please email bower.abigail@gmail.com with any questions and inquiries, and to schedule your audition slot. Please indicate whether you are available on both or only one of the slotted audition dates. Directions to the farm will be sent upon sign up.
All ages 18+ welcome, this time around.
Audition Prep:
Auditions will take place in a group format and consist of group work. Participants are also encouraged to bring an individual piece or work-in-progress that you may have worked on over the last ~year, that you are ultimately interested in sharing with the collective, and incorporating into a larger scale collaborative piece. To begin, these pieces will be shared individually with the director. Poetry, prose, scenes, monologues, art - which inspire you, the performer. (It is not mandatory that participants bring a piece of their own, to begin.)
All rehearsals will be held outdoors, through July and August, 2-3 days a week. Final performance dates - set to be in September - will be discussed amongst the group, as will potential rain dates. Please plan to share any conflicts in your schedule with the director at auditions.
The theme of this workshop is generally focused on but not limited to the earth - and our connection to the earth, energetic shifts in society, our existential existence, and the meaning of life as according to - whom.
Notices:
KGF:
Kearsarge Gore Farm is a working farm. Wear clothing that supports movement, and footwear that is appropriate for moving in a field. Long pants are recommended.
Feel free to check out KGF’s website to learn a little more about the farm — www.teamkgf.com
Covid the Elephant:
Ongoing vigilance will be paid to and discussions had as a group around Covid safety and precautions, as we approach auditions, rehearsals, and final performances.
In hoping to commit fully to the integrity of our work, it is our intention that masks will not be worn during final performances, unless a scene calls for a mask.
Your Travels to Rehearsal - Thoughts
KGF is about a 10 minute drive up the mountain from downtown Warner. It is possible that some rehearsals will take place in downtown Warner, in order to lessen driving time, some days. Discussions for a potential downtown (outdoor) rehearsal space are currently in progress.
About the Director & her Vision
Workshop leader Abigail Bower will be pulling from her theatre experience and training from many walks of life over the years. Inspirations for this project are rooted most firmly in (but not limited to) her collaborative work and puppetry training with Peter Schumann and the Bread & Puppet Theatre in Vermont, Boston and New York; her theatre studies and actor training in the Box What Box workshop process with the Center for Alternative Theatre Training’s Michael Devine in Nova Scotia, Canada and Rome, Italy; and in Abigail’s studies of Transpersonal Drama Therapy through Saphira Linden’s Omega Theatre Company in Jamaica Plain, Boston. Big time, every day inspirations also include — hands digging into dirt, and feet pounding pavement.
The title to this workshop - “In Defense of Dandelions” - Is inspired by a series of poems that came to be written by Abigail over the course of the past year. One poem in particular — “The Battle Against the Dandelions”, was read out loud to a group that encouraged it be put out to the public in some way shape or form. With this thought in mind, the vision of this workshop grew more clear. So many artists work on pieces in their own time that don’t always “see the light of day” - so often with bigger dreams or ideas for them than can always be realized. Let’s bring them to life, together.