The Octopus and the Interview

We are working on something new! Come see what we are up to.

A delicate work that makes space for simple acts of listening. A bold process that lays out impossible feats of togetherness. Born out of research in oral history interview practice, vocal explorations and writing for performance, this dance improvisation performance is finding its legs. We’d love to have you in the room to witness it in this nascent stage.

And please join us afterwards for snacks, drinks and some great raffle items!

The Octopus and the Interview
Wednesday, June 6th, 6:30pm
at The Performance Garage
1515 Brandywine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130

Tickets available HERE

Performers
Eun Jung Choi
Meg Foley
Helen Hale
Jennifer Kidwell
Scott McPheeters
Guillermo Ortega

Music/Sound: Pax Ressler
Lighting: Masha Tsmiring

More about the project

How do we forge connections between disparate modes of expression? Can we register information in many ways simultaneously? Through kinesthetic touch, visual understanding, vocal resonance, vocal sound, verbal meaning, physical and emotional empathy? What does it mean to ask each other questions in all these different channels of information? We are working to define a performance practice that allows us to register and structure information in multiple ways.

Two years ago, Nichole Canuso worked with six collaborator/performers (Meg Foley, Jennifer Kidwell, Guillermo Ortega, Scott McPheeters, Helen Hale, Eun Jung Choi) and Oral Historian Suzanne Snider, choreographer/writer/philosopher Karinne Keithley Syers and vocal teacher Jean Rene Toussaint. Together this group of ten artists explored and researched the relationships between modes of expression. More about that process HERE. Since then the Nichole and the performers have been getting together periodically to build a performance work born out of these practices and philosophies.