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Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak announces Stamina of Curiosity, a new project framing Shanahan's next phase of creative work involving in-studio research and public presentation. The multi-year project will amplify and advance the most urgent strands of creative research prompted by My Name is a Blackbird, including Shanahan's exploration of the energetic exchange between observers and observed as a palpable, alchemical agent in spontaneous composition, and deepening Shanahan's evolving movement vocabulary in the context of both solo and ensemble practice and performance.
Stay tuned for updates, writing, and announcements of public events, including workshops, performances, and opportunities for artists.
Kristina Fluty, Benjamin Law, Jessie Marasa, Zachary Whittenburg; Rachel Damon (Project Coordinator and Production Manager).
the collision, colliding, merging, folding, conversation between what we know and what we do not know, the known and unknown.
the role of memory
the role of projection and expectation
"task" as opportunity for productive contradiction, necessitating the setting-aside of contrivance or, sometimes, ego
the energy of resisting as fertilizer to creativity
does our relationship with what we don't yet know provoke performance-worthy material?
the value of vulnerability. yes to being vulnerable within a safe exterior. the body as exterior and interior conversation.
limitation as provocateur
is the observer as naked as the performer?
what about the unseen living body as "unknown?" the unseen, living "self"???
if the body is teacher, what does it offer w/ generosity? where does it withhold? is this withholding function optional? permission.
habit and repetition
face to face with habit, what is our response?
expanding vs reducing?
how important is being right?
pursuit of unison vs pursuit of new ideas about unison (containing convention)
how can we increase our aptitude for finding order in chaos?
training/using more of the brain vs. limiting the options?
performing, being seen, inviting being seen: is there space for hiding?
reality and representation?
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