The five nights of Feast Your Famine: a watch-and-play concluded quietly on Sunday. Small, somehow, in the cavernous universe-womb-model of West-Park Presbyterian Church, but warm and full. The evenings brought unexpected questions and curves. Some moments of great glee. Some of quiet power throbbing in the darkness of mid-November in New York. Each night felt very different, and we want to thank the activists and … Continue reading Feasting on famine…
— a realm of lost birds, a tree that got cut down, and Ronald’s horse who went awry. a devised stage performance that emerges from a collage of ancient sacred texts, modern academic writing, “found” popular elements, and original material, exploding the mythology of myths, dominant traditions’ suppression of elemental (often woman-centered) streams, U.S. living-history exhibitions, and contemporary gender/power dynamics. Developed through the LEIMAY … Continue reading a new work by Wistaria Project…
Check out our website for Feast Your Famine: a watch-and-play for details on the event and to get tickets. We’re excited to bring you into the work of exciting artists and fervent activists November 13-17. Each night is a different program, and the five days are crafted together to be a journey of challenge and discovery that we can all take together. You’ll be able … Continue reading Feast Your Famine website is live
November 13-17. An experiment in collaboration, creativity, and consciousness. With possibilities for multi-day game play or a single night’s experience, audiences can join a diverse body of artists and activists in a journey of boundary crossing, soul-troubling, and action through both avant garde and traditional performances and social-action events — set inside the framework of a subverted medieval feast. Join us for an interactive five-night … Continue reading Join us in November…
Wistaria Project just returned from two weeks as visiting artists at Camp Ballibay for the Fine and Performing arts. We worked with campers to create a devised, outdoor, ambulatory performance, called Dichotomy, Mother of Thousands, about the cycles of life in the universe, with artists 10 to 17 years old — and a horse. Continue reading Dichotomy, Mother of Thousands
Sunday, June 23, from 2:30-5pm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Application info below. Wistaria Project seeks collaborating performers and other artists to join this small collective for the continuing development of a devised work already in progress (Mosh-Pit Daisies) and possible collaboration on the creation of a festival/social-performance work (Feast Your Famine). The works will appear through our residency at The Center at West Park in Manhattan, … Continue reading June 23: Open rehearsal to meet new collaborators
We will present several days of social-action workshops and performances from a diversity of artists sculpted together into something like a non-religious Holy Week, a kind of art-and-action odyssey, that seeks to engage and subvert the myths of white male Christian heroism received through the medieval tales of Western Europe and to share space and time together across societal and art-world boundaries. Inside of this … Continue reading Wistaria Project receives The Center at West Park Performing Artist Residency, Fall 2019
We traveled to the Detroit/Hamtramck borderlands for a week-long exchange and collaboration experiment with our friends at The Hinterlands. Jenna also presented an early-in-development version of her new solo work. Continue reading A Journey to The Hinterlands
Returning to CAVE, where Wistaria and You Will Make A Difference were born, Jenna and Jeremy will spend the next year working on new projects and old — with old friends and new — thanks to being selected for the LEIMAY Fellowship. Continue reading A New Year of Artistic Fellowship Begins with LEIMAY
Wistaria Project traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, this month for a four-day work and training exchange with kindred spirits at XOXO Performance who were in development for their piece-in-progress The Children’s Crusade (all our little innocence). Continue reading From Wistaria Project with XOXO in NC
at the Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht in Havana… Continue reading Wistaria Project Workshop in Cuba
We are excited to travel to Cuba to have a cultural exchange with Havana artists. Continue reading Wistaria Project travels to Cuba
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