Works-In-Progress Sunday, December 2 2:00pm – 4:00pm FREE Working on a new piece and want some feedback? Interested in seeing new work? Join us for WIP. Up to 5 artists can show 7-10 minutes of a performance piece they are working on. A facilitator (Rachel Storm) will guide responses to the artist’s work from the audience using the Liz Lerman Critical Response Process. On the Schedule: Three Brothers of a Mother (Kvn Tajzea), Stories in the Water (Latrelle Bright), Untitled…
Narrative Theatre WorkshopSaturday, December 82:00pm – 6:00pmFee: $25 per participantCapacity: 20 In this 4-hour workshop we will work on dramatizing non-dramatic text using a passage from Haruki Murakami’s novel Kafka on the Shore. The first two hours will be creating a performance of this text with the participants. I also ask that everyone bring a brief literary passage that they are drawn to for possible dramatizing. The second two hours we’ll use devising and physical theatre techniques to bring the…
Couple’s Theatre! Saturday, November 10 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fee: $15 per participant Capacity: 10 couples Couple’s Theatre is two hours of theatre games, improvisation and devising! Couples of all kinds (life partners, siblings, co-workers, besties, neighbors etc.) are welcome. Wear comfortable clothing that you can move and groove in. Join us for a fun way to connect with your bestie and other humans. You can pay at the door with cash OR you can pay online HERE: https://www.urbanadancecompany.com/register Scroll down…
The first Potluck and Play in the new space was a great experience! The readers read the hell outta their characters and the listeners were so thoughtful in their responses to this powerful, brutal and funny piece of theatre. To the bone it was indicative of what I wish the Performance Studio space to feel like. Home and comfort. ****** Potluck and Play is a series of play readings that I will host at Performance Studio with good people,…
Prairie Rivers Network and theatre artist Latrelle Bright have teamed up for a "Journey to Water", an effort to connect and discuss the relationship of African-Americans to water and local water sources. An intergenerational group of 20 African Americans will caravan to the Middle Fork Vermillion River for a day excursion on Saturday, September 22nd. The event is free and will be filled with storytelling, story-sharing, photography, canoeing, art and education about water, our precious resource. This effort is made…
Artist, Latrelle Bright, speaks about her artwork on this episode of Art Now. Art Now is an award-winning mini-documentary series that has produced over 80 episodes on local artists working in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding areas since July 2010. A joint production by the Urbana Public Arts Program and Urbana Public Television, Art Now highlights members of the Urbana's creative community and introduces local artists to the viewers of the program. For more information, visit: www.urbanaillinois.us/artnow. Art Now Interview with…