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- Day 0 | LaMaMa La Galleria debuts a special website for FROM THE EDGE: PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA
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- Day 1 of our installation in New York: FROM THE EDGE: PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA
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- Day 1 of our installation | Brian Sidney Bembridge’s giant cock for THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY
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- Day 1 | Installing Joey Arias in Basil Twist’s ARIAS WITH A TWIST
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- Day 1 | Installing William Bloodgood’s model for the USA national pavilion. FROM THE EDGE: PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA at LaMaMa LaGalleria.
- Day 1 | We found this photo of Ellen Stewart, but we use a different photo of LaMaMa for the actual exhibition
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- Day 2 of our installation | Extreme Costume!! We are blowing air into these bosoms. BETTY BOOP ON THE BEACH. By performance artist Pat Oleszko
- Day 2 of our installation | Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival’s production of THE DAY ON WHICH A MAN DIES by Williams
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- Day 3 | Eugene O’Neill’s DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS from Goodman Theatre of Chicago Direction by the maverick Robert Falls. Design by Walt Spangler (scenery), Ana Kuzmanic (costume), Michael Philippi (lighting) and Richard Woodbury (sound).
- Day 3 of our installation process at La Galleria FROM THE EDGE PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA. I pinned a yellow flag on the capital of the Philippines in the map of the world.
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- Day 3 | THE WIZ, as envisioned by PHAMALy (Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League) of Denver, Colorado. Steve Wilson, director; Debbie S. Stark and Cindy Bray, choreographers; Charles Packard and Jennifer Orf, scenery; Mallory Kay Nelson, costume; Orf and Packard, lighting; Matthew Charles Swarz, sound
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- Day 4 | Me and the performance artist Pat Oleszko. Opening reception of FROM THE EDGE: PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA at LaMaMa LaGalleria.
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- Day 4 | William Bloodgood’s model for the USA national pavilion. Opening reception of FROM THE EDGE: PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA at LaMaMa LaGalleria.
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- Day 4 | Party table surrounding William Bloodgood’s model for the USA national pavilion. Opening reception of FROM THE EDGE: PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA at LaMaMa LaGalleria.
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- Day 4 | Pat Oleszko’s “warUSaurus.” Opening reception of FROM THE EDGE: PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA at LaMaMa LaGalleria.
- Day 4 | Performance artist Pat Oleszko. Opening reception of FROM THE EDGE: PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA at LaMaMa LaGalleria.
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- Day 5 | LaMaMa LaGalleria | A young boy dances to the hip sound design by Don Tindall in “From the Edge: Performance Design in the Divided States of America”
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- Day 5 | This undulating inflatable sculpture greets families and visitors in the front gallery of FROM THE EDGE at La Galleria. It was created by Pat Oleszko. She calls it a “warUSaurus.” Parents with kids frequently stop to press their noses on the glass door and point out this wild creature of performance design.
NEW YORK CITY | From the Edge: Performance Design in the Divided States of America” is a one-of-a-kind curated installation documenting the most politically compelling productions, performances and work processes that appeared in the United States between 2006 and 2011. That period in consideration was the tumultuous period when an economic recession slammed our country and the political ferment brought about the rise of an African American as U.S. president.
The first part of the process involved selecting works from 360 submissions from across the country and then creating a pavilion that would house these works at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. That process was completed after we debuted the USA pavilion in Prague in June 2011.
This slideshow documents the second part of the process. We want to share the work we did in Prague to Americans. We wanted a gallery environment in New York to house the works. And we hope to inspire the next batch of curators and producers to create their own USA national space for the 2015 Prague Quadrennial.
I took photos of our process from installation to opening. I hope you enjoy them. And I hope they spur you into coming down to LaMaMa LaGalleria (6 East First Street) to see the installation live. -rg, in the theater of one world
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