DEEP PLAY PERFORMANCE TROUPE
Seeking: curious, creative, open-hearted/minded, passionate, expressive, critical, reflective, playful, vulnerable, bold, wild persons to join a psycho-theatrical-artistic playground performance collective
FALL 2024 / PORTLAND, OR
Various Days/Times Nov-Dec, 2024 (see below)
application deadline = Oct 13
FALL 2024 / PORTLAND, OR
Various Days/Times Nov-Dec, 2024 (see below)
application deadline = Oct 13
You:
-Feel aligned with many of the adjectives and nouns from the tagline of this post
-Are able to quickly tap into authentic emotional expressions using gestures, sounds and words
-Are able to persist in a conversational thread of questions upon questions that deepen the investigation as they persist
-Feel comfortable receiving and giving physical touch (non-sexual)
-Are not afraid of (perhaps even you feel fascinated by) shadows: anger, criticality, obsession, etc
-Are able to know your own emotional boundaries and/or self-regulate if over-extended
-Are simultaneously able to be pushed to go deeper (and very much want that) but are also able to say “no” that’s enough
Practicals:
-We will meet for rehearsals 1 month prior to a performance in early Dec 2024
-There is no cost to join. And all income from ticket sales will be split amongst the team
-There will be an intention to have future cycles of rehearsal-performance (hopefully 1-2 times per calendar year)
-This will run as a collective (a troupe) with a director. The director will try their best to be simultaneously open to the thoughts-directions-ideas of the collective while also maintaining a rigorous/uncompromising aesthetic
What will this look like? Some possible images of rehearsals:
-Partswork psychodramatic exploration where one person steps up to the center of the room and begins moving into and expressing inner parts using gesture and sound and then other members of the crew come up and express alongside them, thereby creating a map of embodied inner parts which we then mould and modify and play with
-Tapping into archetypal-demonic-angelic energies and letting those energies move through you such that you develop them into a character (a kind of creature with distinct ways of moving, sounding, expressing, speaking) and then allowing this character to interact with other characters
-Improvising meta-narratives that explain what is happening while it is happening and then having someone else interrupt your meta-narrative to offer their own meta-narrative until you form a dispute about the proper way of interrupting the piece
-Listening carefully to the monologue of another player and repeating key lines of that monologue and adding ambient musical vocal sounds that create a textural landscape that fills the undersides of the monologue while other players are extending the monologue through questions and loving affirmations and vile negations
-Vocal expressions (proto-song) interwoven amongst the group, accompanied by gestures and movement, used to punctuate a scene and provide breaks for non-meaning and non-aspiration
Intention / Vision:
Delicious is our relationality and the many ways of being-with! As we gather, whoever we are, whatever we are, we form a unique cocktail of togetherness. The flavors of our togetherness not only are dependent on who we are (which can change from person to person, day to day, mood to mood) but also change depending on what we are doing together, how we are relating - our context. Context is one of the gods that we shall worship during our time together - the devotion to the uniqueness of what exists in and around us in its beautiful particularity. Another god we shall worship is Play. And one manner of play worship is through a manifold of techniques - for mixing up our relationality, stirring the togetherness cocktail, adding more ingredients in, tasting it, deepening the flavors, bringing out our wild insides and turning ourselves over to see our many sides. What are we and what can we be? How big can we get? How small? How deranged? How majestic? Can we play with questions of our existence and constitution as we unfold ourselves? Can we question our play as we are made otherwise by it? Can we keep folding more and more of the layers of our selves, each other, our environment back into the cosmic game?
Who is this for? What will I get out of this? Why should I do this?
-This is designed for people whose soul’s feel deeply called to this kind of psychodramatic investigation. If you are moved by the writing above, and if your soul is screaming YES! then that may be enough of a reason to join.
-This is not explicitly designed for actors. This is not designed as a resume-builder, or one-off experience, or opportunity to build one’s professional career as a theatre artist. That said, actors or theatre folks are welcome/encouraged to apply.
-This work involves radical exploration of self and other. While the actual content of what we will be doing is somewhat unknown, the modes of exploration will involve connecting with very deep, authentic expressions in a relational setting. Inevitably, this will involve investigations into what you are beneath the layers of politeness and culture. This work is an exploration of truth. Uncovering your own depths, blossoming and fruiting insights, deepened feelings of connection and relational authenticity are bound to arise.
-This work involves radically deep play. We will play wildly and fully. We will get sweaty and laugh and cry and dissolve into the floor and ascend to the heights. Is this not the most fun to be had? (I mean, truly, nothing else is more fun than this, no?)
-Healing? Healing may or may not occur. Transformation will certainly occur. We will transform into creatures. We will transform into altered versions of ourselves with full and wild emotions. We will transform into responsive, creative, attuned playful beings. Is that healing? I think so. And hopefully you do too.
Timeline:
Application Due: Oct 13
Solo Audition: 30 minutes over Zoom (week of Oct 14)
Group Audition: Tuesday Oct 22nd 7-9pm
Acceptance Emails by Oct 29
Rehearsal Schedule*
Friday Nov 15, 7-9pm
Saturday Nov 16, 10am-6pm
Wednesday Nov 20, 7-9pm
Sunday Nov 24, 10am-6pm
Wednesday Dec 4, 7-9pm
Saturday and Sunday Dec 7-8, 10am-6pm
Wednesday Dec 11, 7-9pm
Thursday Dec 12, 7-9pm
*this is a rough schedule and may have mild adaptations in the coming month
Performances: December 13th 7-9pm, Dec 14th 7-9pm, December 15th 3-5pm
-Feel aligned with many of the adjectives and nouns from the tagline of this post
-Are able to quickly tap into authentic emotional expressions using gestures, sounds and words
-Are able to persist in a conversational thread of questions upon questions that deepen the investigation as they persist
-Feel comfortable receiving and giving physical touch (non-sexual)
-Are not afraid of (perhaps even you feel fascinated by) shadows: anger, criticality, obsession, etc
-Are able to know your own emotional boundaries and/or self-regulate if over-extended
-Are simultaneously able to be pushed to go deeper (and very much want that) but are also able to say “no” that’s enough
Practicals:
-We will meet for rehearsals 1 month prior to a performance in early Dec 2024
-There is no cost to join. And all income from ticket sales will be split amongst the team
-There will be an intention to have future cycles of rehearsal-performance (hopefully 1-2 times per calendar year)
-This will run as a collective (a troupe) with a director. The director will try their best to be simultaneously open to the thoughts-directions-ideas of the collective while also maintaining a rigorous/uncompromising aesthetic
What will this look like? Some possible images of rehearsals:
-Partswork psychodramatic exploration where one person steps up to the center of the room and begins moving into and expressing inner parts using gesture and sound and then other members of the crew come up and express alongside them, thereby creating a map of embodied inner parts which we then mould and modify and play with
-Tapping into archetypal-demonic-angelic energies and letting those energies move through you such that you develop them into a character (a kind of creature with distinct ways of moving, sounding, expressing, speaking) and then allowing this character to interact with other characters
-Improvising meta-narratives that explain what is happening while it is happening and then having someone else interrupt your meta-narrative to offer their own meta-narrative until you form a dispute about the proper way of interrupting the piece
-Listening carefully to the monologue of another player and repeating key lines of that monologue and adding ambient musical vocal sounds that create a textural landscape that fills the undersides of the monologue while other players are extending the monologue through questions and loving affirmations and vile negations
-Vocal expressions (proto-song) interwoven amongst the group, accompanied by gestures and movement, used to punctuate a scene and provide breaks for non-meaning and non-aspiration
Intention / Vision:
Delicious is our relationality and the many ways of being-with! As we gather, whoever we are, whatever we are, we form a unique cocktail of togetherness. The flavors of our togetherness not only are dependent on who we are (which can change from person to person, day to day, mood to mood) but also change depending on what we are doing together, how we are relating - our context. Context is one of the gods that we shall worship during our time together - the devotion to the uniqueness of what exists in and around us in its beautiful particularity. Another god we shall worship is Play. And one manner of play worship is through a manifold of techniques - for mixing up our relationality, stirring the togetherness cocktail, adding more ingredients in, tasting it, deepening the flavors, bringing out our wild insides and turning ourselves over to see our many sides. What are we and what can we be? How big can we get? How small? How deranged? How majestic? Can we play with questions of our existence and constitution as we unfold ourselves? Can we question our play as we are made otherwise by it? Can we keep folding more and more of the layers of our selves, each other, our environment back into the cosmic game?
Who is this for? What will I get out of this? Why should I do this?
-This is designed for people whose soul’s feel deeply called to this kind of psychodramatic investigation. If you are moved by the writing above, and if your soul is screaming YES! then that may be enough of a reason to join.
-This is not explicitly designed for actors. This is not designed as a resume-builder, or one-off experience, or opportunity to build one’s professional career as a theatre artist. That said, actors or theatre folks are welcome/encouraged to apply.
-This work involves radical exploration of self and other. While the actual content of what we will be doing is somewhat unknown, the modes of exploration will involve connecting with very deep, authentic expressions in a relational setting. Inevitably, this will involve investigations into what you are beneath the layers of politeness and culture. This work is an exploration of truth. Uncovering your own depths, blossoming and fruiting insights, deepened feelings of connection and relational authenticity are bound to arise.
-This work involves radically deep play. We will play wildly and fully. We will get sweaty and laugh and cry and dissolve into the floor and ascend to the heights. Is this not the most fun to be had? (I mean, truly, nothing else is more fun than this, no?)
-Healing? Healing may or may not occur. Transformation will certainly occur. We will transform into creatures. We will transform into altered versions of ourselves with full and wild emotions. We will transform into responsive, creative, attuned playful beings. Is that healing? I think so. And hopefully you do too.
Timeline:
Application Due: Oct 13
Solo Audition: 30 minutes over Zoom (week of Oct 14)
Group Audition: Tuesday Oct 22nd 7-9pm
Acceptance Emails by Oct 29
Rehearsal Schedule*
Friday Nov 15, 7-9pm
Saturday Nov 16, 10am-6pm
Wednesday Nov 20, 7-9pm
Sunday Nov 24, 10am-6pm
Wednesday Dec 4, 7-9pm
Saturday and Sunday Dec 7-8, 10am-6pm
Wednesday Dec 11, 7-9pm
Thursday Dec 12, 7-9pm
*this is a rough schedule and may have mild adaptations in the coming month
Performances: December 13th 7-9pm, Dec 14th 7-9pm, December 15th 3-5pm
DIRECTOR / FACILITATOR
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Aaron Finbloom is a philosopher, artist and pedagogue. He is the co-founder of The School of Making Thinking (SMT) and the founder & director of The Deep Play Institute (DPI). His practice involves expanding transformative inquiry through games, performance art and structured play. With training in Circling, Authentic Relating, and Psychodrama, he also facilitates experimental individual and group sessions inspired by these practices. Finbloom has presented works internationally at venues which include: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Gallery 151 (New York), Maschinenhaus Kulturbrauerei (Berlin), UNAM (Mexico City), and MainLine Theatre (Montreal). He holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities & Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, and is currently teaching Philosophy at the City College of New York. finblooming.com
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