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Repertory

Current & In Progress

THEBAID, An excerpt from Statius' Book XII, Directed by Magdalena Zira

After the battle between the Argives and the periThebans, the bodies of the
Thebans are burned. Creon, victorious king of Thebes, decrees that no Argive
should receive burial honor, but their corpses should be left on the
battlefield to rot. Among the unburied dead is Polynices, who had led the
Argive army against Thebes and against his brother Eteocles.
A group of women from Argos, the widows and relatives of the dead Argives,
come to beg for the bodies of their men. Argia, wife of Polynices, runs
ahead of the others and arrives first at the battlefield outside Thebes,
looking for her husband's body. After a dangerous journey she finds it.
Meanwhile Antigone, sister of Polynices, escapes the city of Thebes with the
same purpose: to find the body of Polynices and bury it, despite Creon's
orders.
The two women meet on the battlefield, over the body, and after a highly
emotional recognition scene they bury the body together, giving it a proper
funeral pyre. But the guards hear them and arrive to catch them in the act.
The two women proudly admit to what they have done and are taken to king
Creon, there to be condemned to death.

DIGMA

What hides under the black formalities of today's corporate world? What is it that creates a transiton to color and true feelings? Why do we try so hard to hide what's there? Is it because it is scary to do so, or because it is too beautiful to let show? This work was presented as a small sample of the full length evening exploration of the theme, which will shortly follow.

 

   

HECUBA, Directed by Magdalena Zira

"Ah! there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart.

But since thou art afraid, deferring too much to the rabble, I will rid thee of that fear. Thus; be privy to my plot if I devise mischief against this murderer, but refrain from any share in it. And if there break out among the Achaeans any uproar or attempt at rescue, when the Thracian is suffering his doom, check it, though without seeming to do so for my sake. For what remains, take heart; I will arrange everything well."

 

AQUA



 

What happens when a divine creature discovers the essence of being human? Pleasures and the pain accompany mortality. Are they appealing and why? Why taste water, when an unsatisfied desire will spring from it? The answer to be seen on stage.

This work has been commissioned by:
"Moving Arts Project-Christine Jowers"

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SUSPENDIDA

This multi-media performance was created in collaboration with the ANNEX group in an attempt to integrade the elements of movement, sound, costume, light, scenery, text and video.  The piece deals with the difficulty experienced by a woman who has left her native land in search of something different.

ANNEX was concerned with the painful negotiation of suspended feelings and perplexed identities triggered by the process of relocation. Though the boundaries of reality and fiction were blurred, a cross-generational, multicultural core message of being caught in between worlds was preserved.
   


WHO CARES ABOUT THE PANTS?

Who wears the pants today? Is The Man?

Or, is it The Lady? And really does it matter? Why all the fuss when love is assumed to conquer all?

   

 

STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS

Still life With Flowers deals with issues of social isolation and group pressure. Isolation becomes false security and eventually becomes despair. Salvation through social interaction can really mean loss of identity and disjointment from a goal.

 

   

 

IN SEARCH OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT

 The piece explores the feeling that everyone talks about and spends their entire life trying to experience; the one that when not in possession of drives individuals insane over, hence the title 'In search of a white elephant."

When people get the chance to take a small taste of it, brain anarchy rules as they desperately grasp onto this utopia, disregarding all that preceded it. In a bulimic way they try to acquire as much as possible, not realizing that this will result in them experiencing a new feeling. The sickening feeling of repulse, the wake-up call of raw reality. It does not exist and holding onto the thought that it does or that it will exist, can only worsen their emotional and behavioral state.

   


ECNIRP DELTITNU



  The struggle of a man to defy his fears. Will he overcome them to meet his predestined path?

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SCALE: 1/8"=1'0"



  A eulogy on amplitude space and the infinite ways of manifesting its usage.

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cHRONOS


 

 "If information after being sucked into a black hole is lost forever, then this brings in a serious paradox

 known as ‘black hole information paradox’. If information is totally lost it arises important practical and philosophical consequences. If this

 really happens, then ‘we could never be certain of the past or predict the future precisely."

--Hawkins--

This piece is based on the theory of relativity upon which black holes were born. In simple words black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape, making them impossible to see. The work raises questions on how real time is and how that affects our perception on events.



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CHEMISTRY VS. PHYSICS


  Sometimes, circumstances are set against fate's wishes, prohibiting the interaction between individuals. Two people wearing negatively ionized costumes want to reach out to each other, but even thought their chemistry works the physics are banning contact of any sort. The movement challenges are rocking and applying real physics to dance is finally met!

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NO STRAINS ATTACHED



  A piece on the effect of obsessive behavior and it's outcome. When is it that one needs to let go?

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KAERBTRAEH TCEFREP


 

A theatrical work involving speech, projections, movement, a human size dummy, roses, unsettling music and distressing acting that will physicalize the tendency we, as human beings have, to dwell into depression due to relationships gone wrong.

The piece is being structured around the difficult game of love and exasperation through the interchange of sadness resulting in humor, play, angst and belligerence. All relationships have a predestined path, which at the time involved in, is unclear.

In the land of Kaerbtraeh Tcefrep (Perfect Heartbreak) the path is twisted under the biggest lie of happiness, which lives screaming "Feed me, me, me, Me, ME with Pain." The performers of the game are called to deviate away, follow along, or adapt it. The individual process of disintegration, the ability to chose, and the challenge of emotional sightlessness is what concerns us.

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SCARY BIRDS

Scary birds dealsin a comical way with the gender roles and the deception of appearance within those.
   

 

Past Collaboration Works

An excerpt from Statius’ THEBAID, Book XII, Directed by Magdalena Zira at the Target Margin Theater

Hecuba, written by Euripides, Directed by Magdalena Zira at the Tisch School of the Arts-NYU

Operetta, written by Witold Gombrowicz, Directed by Zishan Ugurlu at the New School of Education

Fires, written by Marguerite Yourcena, Directed by Gisela Cardenas at the Vortex Theatre

Moving With A Painting, Workshop for Christine Jowers Moving Arts Project

 

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DIGMA

choreography:

Irina Constantine Poulos

performance: Irina Constantine Poulos
costume design: Irina Constantine Poulos
music coposition: Suzanne Vega, Röyksopp

AQUA

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: Christine Jowers
costume design Oana Botez-Ban
lighting design Lucas Benjaminh Krech

SUSPENDIDA

concept: Oana Botez-Ban, Saviana Stanescu
choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
text: Saviana Stanescu
music composition: Lucian Ban
performance: Irina Constantine Poulos
installation design: Oana Botez-Ban
lighting design: Lucas Benjaminh Krech
costume design: Oana Botez-Ban
video design: Erwin Maas
voices: Oana Botez Ban, Lucretia Briceno, Irina Constantine Poulos

WHO CARES ABOUT THE PANTS?

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: William D. Arnold, Abbey Mills
costume design: Vita Tzykun
lighting design: Lucas Benjaminh Krech
music composition: Astor Piazzola, William D. Arnold

STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance:

William D. Arnol, Beliz Demircioglu, Blake Faulds,

Abbey Mills, Georgia Tucker

costume design: Oana Botez-Ban
lighting design: Lucas Benjaminh Krech
music composition: Neophytos Stratis

IN SEARCH OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: William D. Arnold , Blake Faulds, Ben Wheless
costume design: Irina Constantine Poulos
lighting design: Lucas Benjaminh Krech
music composition: Kickplate

ECNIRP DELTITNU

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: William D. Arnold
costume design: Oana Botez-Ban
lighting design: Tim Cryan
music composition: UNKLE
installation: Irina Constantine Poulos

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SCALE: 1/8"=1'0"

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: William D. Arnold
costume design: Oana Botez-Ban
lighting design: Tim Cryan

cHRONOS

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: William D. Arnold, Blake Faulds, Jill Frere, Milena Lloyd, Abbey Mills, Jessy Smith, Ben Wheless
costume design: Oana Botez-Ban
lighting design: Lucas Benjaminh Krech
music composition: David Adam Moore
set design: Stephen Gifford

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CHEMISTRY VS. PHYSICS

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: Jessy Smith, Ben Wheless

NO STRAINS ATTACHED

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: William D. Arnold,Irina Constantine Poulos
costume design: Irina Constantine Poulos
lighting design: Timothy Cryan
music composition: William D. Arnold

KAERBTRAEH TCEFREP

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: William D. Arnold, Nohemi Barriuso, Blake Faulds, Jill Frere, Milena Lloyd, Abbey Mills, Jessy Smith, Ben Wheless
lighting design: Lucas Benjaminh Krech
music composition: Lucian Ban
set design: Shaun Motley

SCARY BIRDS

choreography: Irina Constantine Poulos
performance: Blake Faulds, Erin Ghislin, Kaoru Ikeda, Ben Wheless , Sylvia Wolf
costume design: Irina Constantine Poulos
lighting design: Lucas Benjaminh Krech
music composition: Balanescu Quartet

 

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