Casting performers for a new interactive performance. We're seeking a small group of performers to support our core cast.
WE ARE:
Tyler and Lyra! We come from a shared background in devising, dance, music, composing, choreography, activism, education, and organizing. We're Pig Iron grads and have been developing this project for the last two years.
THE PROJECT IS:
Dreaming the Upside-Down Tree starts with a breath and ends in a dance party. Set in the sensory landscape of The Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden, this devised interactive performance shifts each night. As the audience enters they are invited to record sounds, words, and stories. These recordings are transformed in real time into music -- coughs become drum beats, yawns become melodies, heartfelt messages bloom into lyrics. Performers embody this soundscape, transforming it into movement and narrative. This one-of-a-kind experience of embodiment, community, and belonging weaves ritual, play, dance, and story together. It is ever changing, and doesn't exist without you.
The project is co-led by Tyler Leif Catanella (he/they) and Lyra Butler-Denman (she/her), with Sonali Sangeeta Balajee (she/her) our mentor in belonging and liberation, Giselle Genillard (she/her) our advisor in trauma and the nervous system, production manager Rachel Hunsinger (she/they), and our incredible cast of collaborators Sarah Sanford (she/her), Michael (Dola) Amendola (he/they), and Taylor Burgess (he/him).
YOU ARE:
- Playful
- Comfortable improvising
- Interested in physical theater
- Wanting to build a devised performance community
- Enjoy moving your body and have a strong sense of musicality, tempo, rhythm.
- Available for the audition and rehearsal times (if you're not, we still want to get to know you! Send us an email and we'll see if there are other times we can open up for you or meet.)
Audition
Friday October 10th from 6-8pm @ The Pig Iron Studios
RSVP to [email protected]
Rehearsals
Sunday October 19th from 10am - 2pm @ Circadium School of Contemporary Circus
Thursday October 23rd from 10m - 2pm @ The Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden
Performance
Friday October 24th call at 5pm and show at 6:30 @ The Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden
