No Place
Conceived and Directed by Irina Kruzhilina
In collaboration with the MFA students from the New School’s College of Performing Arts
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, New York
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
Devised, Written, Designed by Irina Kruzhilina in Collaboration with the No Place Ensemble
Performers:
Giancarlo Abrahan, Justin Armstrong, Yihong Chen, Irisdelia Garcia, Augustin Groz, Shonari James, Cheng-Hsien Kuo, Raina Lawrence, Carlos Martinez Noyola, Zandra Paxton, Zinc Tong, Elly Han Yang















