DWELLING: on home

DWELLING was a one-night-only immersive performance event in Albuquerque, NM on the meaning of home. The audience was welcomed into a living room cafe where scenes, sounds, storytelling, and images unfolded all around them in a space of shared experience. Born out of an intensive weeklong group collaboration at q-Staff Theatre, DWELLING asked: What, who, and where is home, and why is it that way?
 

The performance was created by an interdisciplinary group of local artists and educators including: Diana Delgado, Marisa DeMarco, Esther Elia, Kat Kinnick, Mariel Leon Lazcano, Zahra Marwan, Aziza Murray, Hope Orange, Graham Parker Ransell, Rich Van Schouwen, Nick Tauro Jr, and Sandy Timmerman, under the direction of Tara Khozein and Martin Boross.

MEMORY BATH

MEMORY BATH was an ephemeral theatrical event on Place Memory where images, music, poetry, storytelling, and refreshments emerged during a walking tour of the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath, ME. MEMORY BATH asked: What does a place remember and how do we remember it?

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It was developed collectively and shaped by the voices, visions, aesthetics, and missions of local artists Henry Bailey, Meghan Costello, Jazmin DeRice, Jon Gaither, Matthew Glassman, Graham Griffith, Jennie Hahn, Scott Halligan, Phoebe Hiltermann, George McGinty, and Wanda Strukus, under the direction of Tara Khozein and Martin Boross.

Podcast mini-series

In this mini-series for HowlRound Theater Commons, Tara Khozein and Martin Boross invite some of the artists they worked with during the project to reflect on immersive, site-specific, community-driven, devised, co-directed, and ensemble theatre.

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The 6-episode podcast chronicles conversations with artists at each location, asking: How can we share theatrical research across cultural boundaries? It suggests that we build work together as a way of sharing and testing our tools: to build a bridge between realities.

essay series

This series published by HowlRound Theatre Commons synthesizes the research completed during the theatre labs with Martin's directors journals assembled during his ten years as the founding artistic director of STEREO AKT in Budapest, Hungary.

The essays are the following:

Participation: Community as audience
Documentary: Community as where we are and who's from there
Political: Community as the structures we build