Performance
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Iteration Opening Tonight
The LeAb Iteration Lab is a creative partnership that Leah Souffrant and I began in 2023 to explore the places where our creative practices overlap, particularly a shared commitment to the processual — iterating, risk-taking, mistake-making, repetition, rehearsal, revision. We’ve come to think of our collaboration as performance research, a practice focused on understanding what performance does and…
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Fall Events
The world feels heavy right now, especially if you’re living in the United States — the weight of violence, fear, and uncertainty as the systems that are supposed to hold things together seem to be cracking in some places and falling away in others. I feel it every day in waves, as though we’re on…
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The Revolutionists
It’s a privilege to be working on a play like Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists right now. This fast-paced comedy tells the story of four women trying to survive the French Revolution, and the unique forms of courage with which each of them faces the uncertainty and violence surrounding them. Gunderson’s work often focuses on powerful female…
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Samedi à la frontière! | On the Border this Weekend!
Meet me at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House this weekend! I’ll be doing a special borderland book launch event to celebrate Piecework and the cross-border ties that brought the book into being. This special afternoon event will include performances, music, conversation, and celebration in English and French. J’espère vous voir! Rejoignez-moi à la…
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Know Where You Stand
It’s a tricky time to be a person with their feet in two cultures. If you’re someone who crosses borders frequently, you understand that borders are places of friction, where identity shifts or slips, where we are made vulnerable. This is what is beautiful about borderlands — and also what makes them sites of conflict.…
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Piecework est arrivée !
I had an unforgettable few days in Orono this weekend, celebrating the launch of my new book at an annual gathering of Franco American artists known as the rassemblement. It’s a fascinating feeling to hold my work in my hands in its new (and beautiful!) form, and it was deeply meaningful to celebrate with friends,…
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Piecework in Orono this Weekend
I have the great good fortune of heading to Orono, Maine this weekend for the rassemblement, a gathering of Franco American artists, writers, and culture-workers hosted by the Franco American Center of the University of Maine. This annual event provides an invaluable space for us to cultivate Franco culture by sharing our work with one…
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The LeAB: (re)iterating
Last summer Leah Souffrant and I started working together on a devised performance project. We’re calling this collaboration the LeAB iteration LAB, to emphasize a shared commitment to the processual — experimentation, risk-taking and mistake-making, and the revelations that emerge from repetition, rehearsal, and revision. Thinking together about routine, duration, narrative, and witness, we created…
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‘Sam & Jim in Hell’ World Premiere
During the pandemic, I had the good fortune to participate in a number of on-line readings of plays in progress. Remember those days of on-line-only theater? I am not nostalgic — except perhaps for the fact that, at the time, lots of people were making new work. And there is something especially exciting about a…
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A Reiteration in Progress
This summer I’ve been privileged to collaborate with my friend Leah Souffrant on a new performance project, combining our forces to create what we’re calling the LeAB Iteration LAB. During two generative, self-directed residencies in July on Leah’s turf in Brooklyn (thank you, BAX!) and in August close to my home in Burlington, VT, we’ve…
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