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USA & Festival Newsletter - May 17, 2017
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NEW YORK PanNYC – May 30 to June 5. PANIC was Great Pan’s main epiphany; he himself would panic when he created panic, and he loved it! Especially stampedes! - So register soonest (places left in NY)!
TIRESIAS – will be welcomed and consulted at this year’s Myth and Theatre Festival in Southern France. June 18 to July 2. The festival is now full, but clever gate-crashers will be interviewed closely, maybe hired…!
Seriously : Pantheatre's 2017 projects address MANTICS - the Greek word for divination. We will explore and renew the links between performance and the divinatory arts, in their very aims and in their devising procedures: voices, texts, gestures - and above all in their interpretation modes: the workings of oracles by actor-interpreters.
New York will also lend a mantic and a musical ear to the voices of the Background Vocalists- voices that know bettter...
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G.B. Tiepolo, from Scherzi engravings suite
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New York PanNYC
May 30 - June 5 2017
Linda Wise and Enrique Pardo
workshops, master classes and lectures.
The voices that know better: Oracular voices. In choreographic theatre we want them to achieve divinatory rank: they are the ones who interpret the texts. Actor, hero, book, author, all have their own blueprints of interpretation, but, again, oracular voices know better. Background and underworld voices: James Hillman. The spirits of vodou are never far away. Such voices were already hovering over the chorus of Greek tragedies.
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Guest lecturers and artists |
Randy Fertel
Randy is a writer and philanthropist from New Orleans, the author of A Taste for Chaos: The Art of Literary Improvisation. He specializes in the literature of the Vietnam War and the literature of exile.
He met Pantheatre at the 1999 New Orleans festival: “Hermes – Quick, Cool and Crooked”.
He will lecture on Dark Hermes and Trump – with a guest appearance by Pinocchio.
ABOUT
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Wednesday May 31st 6pm to 8pm
Talk & Round Table
At Punto Space
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Rachel Pollack
Thursday June 1st Talk & Round Table
At Punto Space
6pm to 8pm
Snake Change --Teiresias, Hermes,
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the Image of the Caduceus
Rachel is one of the World's foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the Tarot. A poet and novelist, and a Tarot card and comic book artist. She lectured at Pantheatre’s 1993 Festival on the ritual sexual mutilations in honor of Goddess Cibele.
Note from Rachel: "Enrique… I would take issue with the term "sexual mutilations." In my (1993) talk I tried to make the point that these were a medically primitive form of transsexual surgery, done in a state of ritual ecstasy."
EP: point taken, in militant agreement. Teiresias (your spelling) is clearly with you.
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Gregory Shaw
Sunday June 4th
4:30 to 6:30
Talk & Round Table
At Punto Space
Gregory and Enrique meet for the first time - to talk about Hillman and Iamblichus.
Everyone should know James Hillman by now. He was the honorary president of Pantheatre and of the Festival.
Iamblichus - Iamblicus Chalsidensis, Syria, circa 250 - 330 AD, was a Neoplatonic philosopher, pivotal for performative magic - also called THEURGY. We will talk about theatre and theurgy...
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LILAC & C° |
Sean Lewis
Playwright, actor, director of LILAC Co. Brooklyn based - one of Pantheatre's closest artist-friends.
Enrique said Sean's work was the best in Brooklyn, ie New York, ie (hmm) the USA...
He will present new theatre: AMERICAN FLY (MAGIC "mother of science" - when things turn to shit in come the flies.)
Special evening on invitation. Contact Sean Lewis.
Sunday June 4th dusk. Manhattan. |
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G.B. Tiepolo, Scherzi engraving series
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Myth and Theatre Festival
Tiresias
Oracular Voice, Blind Seer, Transsexual
The Festival offers a rare context that brings together theatre practices (workshops, master classes and performances) with "the dance of ideas" and the spirits of mythology.
At this stage, the last registrations are reserved for professionals who have worked with Pantheatre. Write soonest!
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Bibiana Monje in LACURA
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New Articles
Tiresias : Oracular Voice, Blind Seer, Transsexual - Editorial for the 2017 Myth and Theatre Festival.
Background Vocalists : the proposal is that these choir voices carry the dramaturgical "background" power in a choreographic theater: the ones that ‘know better’.
Emotional Pornography and Democracy in America : on Bibiana Monje's performance with Enrique Pardo - and what the critics said! And a raving coda on Romeo Castellucci's latest piece.
Jodorowsky's Tweet: A refutation of a scientific broadside against, basically, theatre - and therefore also against Roy Hart's practice and philosophy of psychosomatics, which was not that far from Jodorowsky's.
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Professional Training
Linda Wise and Enrique Pardo direct a Professional Training Program in voice performance and choreographic theatre, in Paris and at the Roy Hart Centre, Southern France. It involves both practice and cultural studies.
Season in Paris starts with the 4 week professional workshop, October 16 to November 10. Besides daily classes and laboratories, it includes lectures and performances. At DTM Studio in Paris 11th.
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