No Place

Conceived and Directed by Irina Kruzhilina

In collaboration with the MFA students from the New School’s College of Performing Arts

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