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The voices that know better: they are oracular voices. In choreographic theatre we want them to achieve divinatory rank: they are the ones who interpret the texts – not the actor, not the hero, not the book, not the author. These all have their own blueprints of interpretation, but, again, oracular voices know better:. Meaning 'drops' into the backdrop, it rises from the underworld (James Hillman).

The idea is to reflect and research the practice of background vocalists in choreographic theatre and in voice performance. The spirits of vodou are never far away in soul and rock music, and especially with back-up choristers. Such voices were already hovering over the chorus of Greek tragedies.

See Background Voices article and editorial

Guest Events

OPEN HOUSE

Tuesday May 30th
6pm to 8pm

at Punto Space

Randy Fertel

Wednesday May 31st 6pm to 8pm

Talk & Round Table

ABOUT

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.

Rachel Pollack

Thursday June 1st
6pm to 8pm

Talk & Round Table

WEBSITE

Snake Change --Teiresias, Hermes,
and 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 is with you.

Gregory Shaw

Sunday June 4th
4:30 to 6:30

Talk & Round Table

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gregory and Enrique meet for the first time - to talk about Hillman and Iamblichus. Everyone should know James Hillman by now. Iamblichus was a Neoplatonic philosopher (Syria, 250 – 330), pivotal for performative magic - also called THEURGY.

Sean Edward Lewis

Sunday June 4th dusk
A private event (on invitation - contact.)

LILAC & C°

Playwright, actor, director of LILAC Co. Brooklyn - 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.

Open Performance Session.

Monday June 5th

A session amongst friends to try out things and present aspects of work in progress.

time and theme tbc further

Workshops Schedule

May 30th through June 5th 2017

Workshop classes from 10am to 3:30pm.

Enrique and Linda teach both
in the morning and afternoon
with a 30 minute break.

See below for Guest Events

Nettles Artists Collective

Sean Lewis / Lilac C°

ARCHIVES 2011 photos

2015 ARCHIVES

THE ART OF INTERPRETATION
Directed by Linda Wise with pianist Pierre François Blanchard.
Interpreting songs - including Roy Hart extended voice ranges.

“Singing a song is a performance challenge in which you have three to five minutes to tell a story, constellate an idea and convey an emotion.” Linda Wise.

THE ART OF POSSESSION
Directed by Enrique Pardo
Choreographic Theatre - including singing & text.

Post-modernism seems to have stalled in self-possession.Deconstruction rarely flies off the rational handle – even when poetic or ironic. “It takes shamanistic moves to elude the Western rational mind.” (James Hillman).

Directed by Enrique Pardo and Linda Wise.

PanNYC is produced by The Nettles Artists Collective

Coordinator and contact:
Debora Balardini EMAIL

917.402.7961 FAX 646.964.669
www.nettlesartists.com

Advisors : Debora Ballardini, Sandie Luna, Hillary Spector, Sean Lewis, Grace Zandarski

2013 : April 26 to May 5

Laboratory Tribute to James Hillman

TRIBUTE PRESENTATION

The 2013 PanNYC project included a Laboratory Tribute to James HillmanThe project coincided with the Tribute to James Hillman organized by Margot McLean-Hillman on Saturday, May 4th at THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE, NYC.

Nettles Artists Collective

Artistic directors Debora Balardini and Sandie Luna are close collaborators of Pantheatre, both have trained with Enrique Pardo, Linda Wise and Pantheatre teachers in Paris, Chile and NYC. They are the producers of the yearly PanNYC projects.

Nettles Artists Collective's latest performance, FourLegged Melancholy, was created at the Festival de Teatro de Curitiba -Brazil.

VIDEO : www.indiegogo.com/fourleggedmelancholy

www.fourleggedmelancholy.com

www.nettlesartists.com

THE COMPANY

Nettles Artists Collective is the only company in New York City led by Latina immigrants doing physical theater. Artistic directors Debora Balardini and Sandie Luna have been successfully producing original shows and workshops since 2004.

LILAC C° / Sean Lewis

JANUARY 2014 : FRANKENSTEIN

we are being included in the Public Theater's festival in January

http://www.undertheradarfestival.com/frankenstein

going into completely new creation and some fresh collaborations that i am

very excited about

Sean Lewis and Lilac C°, are regular collaborators of PANTHEATRE and present exceptional high-risk performances.

lilac co is an ensemble company that makes original theatre pieces and based in Brooklyn, New York.

lilacco.wordpress.com

January 2014
UNDERTHERADAR Public Theatre Festival

Links and archive material below

SANDYPAUL

COP PIECE YouTube info + Cop Piece ep2 undercover mime

Performing (HH) HAMLETHOUSE FLYER

Baldwin Soup Kitchen inspired by James Baldwin's novel Another Country : FLYER.

Enrique Pardo Commentaries on "Bazaar Godard" Performance Dec 2007 YOUTUBE

ARCHIVES

Sean Edward Lewis LOVE IS BLACK WATER

collaborators

Starring the stunning ELISA MATULA as Christol, with EDGAR OLIVER as detective Solomon. Written & directed by Sean Edward Lewis. Sound by Leon Rothenberg. Edited by Daniel Hilsinger. Director of Photography Hanna Husberg. Original Score by Michael King and Eli Mattern. featuring Seth Powers, Sean Edward Lewis, John Morena, Robert Petrullo, John Piacquadio, Colm Dee, and Danny Culmone

short blurb

Psycho-sexual-surf. A death dream. A young beautiful woman caught in limbo in old Brooklyn …

long blurb

This Pandora's Box dream narrative follows a young beauty caught in limbo as she becomes entangled with a pair of aimless step-brothers paying the ultimate price. A death dream set in old Brooklyn in an abandoned storefront on the east river. A psycho-sexual lament about the snuffing out of beauty.

website: lilacco.wordpress.com

bio

Sean Edward Lewis- writer/actor/director founder Brooklyn based LILAC CO. works: Just Another Cowboy Lost in Steinland; Project Whitman; Bazaar Godard; Death Series Wun:Sexton Says Sum; Confessions of Zorro and Diamond; Baldwin Soup Kitchen;(HH)Hamlethouse; Cop Piece; Undercover Mime; Sandypaul; Dee Dee Is Pregnant; Macbeth Family Reconciliation Project; Jinx; Drusi Is Coming; Drusi Dreamed a Tiger.other work includes: Whitney Biennial 2010 "5 Songs”Martin Kersels,dir.Travis Preston. Prelude Festival 2010,Temporary Distortion,dir.Kenneth Collins;2011 Culturbot,dir.AndyHoriwitz.He has curated selections of new work in Los Angeles and at The Eagle Theater with Janie Geiser and Lewis Khalr and is frequent collaborator with Enrique Pardo of Pantheatre, Paris. He went to Calarts and grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles moving to NYC in 2005.

Drusi Dreamed A Tiger

the latest episode by Lilac Co. in the JINX series continuum. previous episode DRUSI IS COMING seen at Joe's Pub at The Public in August 2012. Written and Directed by SeanEdward Lewis and Featuring Emily Cordes, Sean Edward Lewis, John Morena. Film and Video by Kenny Curwood, Sound & live music by Parker Kindred

SAT-SUN JANUARY 12, 13, 19, 20 9PM *** MATINEES ON SUNDAY'S (12, 20) 3PM

A GATHERING OF THE TRIBES 285 East Third Street(Between Ave C & D),2ND FL NY,NY 10009 www.tribes.org

LILAC CO has made new theater in Brooklyn since 2005 including a feature length

independent film Love is Black Water (to festivals U.S/ Europe 2013).

"The work, written and directed by Sean Edward Lewis, recalls literary experiments such as those of Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carol, Antonin Artaud and David Lynch. As audience to their work one can dwell, rather than be directed what to think about, be that a narrative progression, or a character's "inner" psychology. The work affects feelings and ideas actively, if not immediately, LSJ creates not merely physical spaces, but imaginary, emotional, and intellective states an audience passes through."Thom Donovan writes for the Brooklyn Rail & Wild Horses of Fire.

dear friends thank you for your support at 94 Norman in March with Episode One "JINX" of our new series- and, we move forward this month and will show in May Episode 2 in the series titled "CUNT"

this is to be a three part work to show in one evening (approx 2 hours) this August at the (first ever)

Greenpoint Pre-Apocalyptic Theater Festival directed by Danielle Pomorski-

written by sean edward lewis, directed by sean edward lewis and colm dee

sound and video by michael king and eli mattern

with the singular john morena as MICHEL

LILAC CO AND THE PRE-APOCALYPTIC THEATER FESTIVAL PRESENTS...(2 WEEKENDS-8 SHOWS IN MAY)

EP2 "CUNT" MAY 10,11,12,13 AND

EP1 AND EP2 ("JINX"&"CUNT") MAY 26,27,28,29

ALL SHOWS 9 PM ****

94 NORMAN AVENUE GREENPOINT BROOKLYN 11222 (STOREFRONT SPACE)

NASSAU STOP ON G TRAIN (STEPS AWAY) / L TRAIN TO BEDFORD (10 MIN WALK) / B62 TO NORMAN AVE.

$10(DONATION) BEER&WINE

****94 NORMAN THEATER IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE GENEROSITY OF

MANY PEOPLE AND WE THANK YOU. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY CARMINE NOTORA

AND CARMINE'S ORIGINAL PIZZA (ACROSS THE STREET)***PLEASE GIVE

CARMINE'S ORIGINAL PIZZA IN GREENPOINT YOUR SUPPORT AS A

CONTRIBUTOR TO ARTS IN NYC!!!THANK YOU CARMINE!!!!

http://youtu.be/mvkA0mHt5fA

Work-in progress showings of "JINX" first in a new series by LILAC CO
and introduce Danielle Pomorski of Pre-Apocalyptic Greenpoint Theater Festival -they are co-hosting these showings.
and special guest EDGAR OLIVER ***NEW POETRY***(both SATS March 17&24)

http://vimeo.com/38549298

"JINX" FIRST IN A NEW SERIES. A NEW NEW WORK-IN PROGRESS
WRITTEN/DIRECTED BY SEAN EDWARD LEWIS-MARCH 17,18,24,25 9PM a white collar suburban trash play ...
94 NORMAN AVE GREENPOINT 11222(STOREFRONT SPACE)
NASSAU STOP G TRAIN/STEPS AWAY .

WITH EDGAR OLIVER***
NEW POETRY***SAT 17&24 $10(donation) beer&wine photography by Gayla Kovalyova
A GREENPOINT THEATER FESTIVAL AND LILAC THEATER production

Frankenstein