Everyone Fabulous All The Time (2020)
a four-part ensemble improvisation performance in the Robin Howard Theatre
Ensemble performance improvisation is more like writing or composing than freely exploring. It is definite and sure in whatever it is. If what it is is unknowable, it knows exactly what flavor, colour, and texture of unknowability it is. From this starting point we depart in infinite directions. A collective of individuals, colleagues, friends, our task is to make something together. In our ensemble, each individual’s responsibility to the collective is important - to be present, to be ready, to propose, to make space, to support, to juxtapose. The practice is also anti-individualist: I accept the role that reveals itself to me, I empty myself of me to pull from the infinite sources around me and within me, and through me, through the group, we allow something to become what it is. We have no idea what you’re going to see tonight, all we can promise is things will happen.
direction- Rick Nodine
performers- Alex Henderson, João Costa, Bethanie Hayes, Yasmin Roberts, Niamh Keeling, Margherita Giuliodori, Tasha Hess-Neustadt, Thea Kallhed-Möller, Piers Sanders, Rylee Lynch, Saskia Larcombe, Ella Sophoclides, Zak Harry, Tommy Hodgkins, Daisy Mae Smith
live improvised sound + music- Jamie McCarthy
photo- Rocio Chacon
video compilation of small excerpts