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