No Place
Conceived and Directed by Irina Kruzhilina
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In collaboration with the MFA students from the New School’s College of Performing Arts
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May 2022
No Place was a devised site-specific performance that dealt with humanity’s pursuit of utopian visions in response to societal problems. Created in collaboration with the New School CoPA’s MFA students over the course of the 2022 Spring semester, the performance took the form of a promenade, where audiences were taken on a dream journey through a series of worlds that trace our ultimately doomed desire to trade our flawed everyday life for an unattainable ideal. Along the way the audience encountered mysterious travel agents, participants in an otherworldly perfection pageant and characters from the ultimate utopian play, Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Credits
Associate Director
Andrés López-Alicea
Speech and Voice Supervisor
Alba Quezada
Movement Supervisor
Teva Bjerken
Stagecraft Supervisor
Stephanie Gonzalez
Stage Manager
Taylor Hollister
Assistant Stage Manager
Erika Graff
Featuring
Giancarlo Abrahan – performer, dramaturgy
Justin Armstrong – performer, movement development
Yihong Chen – performer, audience participation
Irisdelia Garcia – performer, scenography
Augustin Groz – performer, audience participation
Shonari James – performer, voice and movement development
Cheng-Hsien Kuo – performer, scenography
Raina Lawrence – performer, scenography
Carlos Martinez Noyola – performer, dramaturgy
Zandra Paxton – performer, dramaturgy
Zinc Tong – performer, audience participation
Elly Han Yang – performer, audience participation