PPL's new opera NATURE FETISH is for seven-year-olds and scientists. We can't claim that it is "educational theater" nor can we claim that it is solely "experimental music-theater" or "visual arts performance" NATURE FETISH is an opera, a combination of artistic mediums, a hybrid creature made of music, text, actions, movements, objects, space, situations, and humans. continue
Celebrated author Maggie Jackson joined educator Richard Lewis and The Performance Project for the latest in a series of three conversations titled "Advocates of the Immeasurable." The series, hosted by Lewis, is part of The Performance Project's FREE Monday Night Salon Series. The next and final conversation will take place on April 30 at 7:30PM in Speyer Hall at University Settlement. continue
The Panoply Performance Laboratory held the first of five events covering "step one" of the NATURE FETISH project, which we are honored to be developing through residency support with The Performance Project @ University Settlement. A huge thank you to everyone who attended this first event! continue
Last Friday one of our new Artists-In-Residence, the Trusty Side Kick Theater Company, held their first play development workshop with three year olds from our Head Start Program. Trusty Side Kick is developing Shadow Play, an interactive show for 2-5 year olds that will premiere at University Settlement on March 3, 2012. Each workshop Trusty Side Kick leads with our early childhood programs gives the company members rich opportunities to ask themselves and their target audience, "What is it? What are we doing?" continue