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 Personal Effects
Inspired by the work of ground-breaking New York choreographer Tere O’Connor, Personal Effects presents an evening of kinetic storytelling. A group of dancers, actors, designers and others met in various combinations over nine months to construct a theatrical language of movement, media and text. Drawing from interviews, group explorations and from the personal experiences of the ensemble, what began as an examination of fear and freedom grew into a collection of converging storylines. By turns outlandish and serious, the Personal Effects Ensemble looks not only at the shape of things we fear, but at what we prize and what we keep. Reception following November 2nd performance. Post-performance discussion following Saturday performances. a Disease called Freedom
Working in a jazz aesthetic, collaboratively creating performance at the intersections of ensemble members stories, a Disease called Freedom uses the metaphor of the River as a point of departure…….. the river is never the same and always the same. For The Ways Ensemble, this river known now as a Disease called Freedom began two years ago and has swelled into a body of water containing collective mythologies. This river carries stories, music, dance and visual creations for the stage and is subject to, as a river is, changes in weather. Reception following Friday’s performance. Post-performance discussion following Saturday’s performance. Special thanks to Media Sponsor KFAI
This project is part of Pangea’s Bridges: a multidisciplinary program designed to create passageways across art forms, cultures, aesthetics, class, borders and traditions. The Bridges Program is supported by The Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Ford Foundation. From the Ashes
Committed to celebrating cultural differences and promoting human rights, Pangea brings on stage a wide array of questions that interlace immigration and refugee realities with this play. What does it mean to be an immigrant? What does it mean to yearn for a place that you've never been to? How does that change when something catastrophic happens, when you no longer feel welcome? From the Ashes is an aesthetic theater piece that brings to the audience a cast as diverse as newly shaping US demographics. Inspired from Voices of Silence, a report by Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights of the ongoing impact of 9/11 on local refugee and immigrant communities, From the Ashes explores the reality of what it means to be searching for home, for something to believe in, and for causes to live for. Using the immediacy of street theater as the idiom, From the Ashes explores the global question of migration and movement in a multi-lingual, physically charged performance with live music. Cooking con Karimi
Mero Cocinero Karimi, Iranian/Guatemalan chef/poet/activist left the world of non-profits to change the world through his cooking on his legendary public-access show. Only problem: he and his other public-access TV hosts are losing their time at the local cable company that has been bought up a media conglomerate. Join us as the "live studio audience" in this interactive performance smorgasboard where Mero Cocinero Karimi tries to cook his way back with the help of his friends in the community to find the secret ingredient that will get the station back in the hands of the people. Live cooking demonstrations, music, poetry, and amazing improvisational performance will be just a sample of the night's fare. The concept conceived by spoken word artist/performance artist Robert Karimi centers on a way to discuss social change and concepts of mixed culture in a project that engages audiences and performers alike. As part of the framework, some of the best performers in the Twin Cities will be invited to create their own interactive "public access" to reflect their own community issues. Warning: Conservative minds and stomachs may find some material unsuitable as Mero Cocinero will be cooking live free food that you can eat at the show. yes, FREE FOOD with your ticket. Cooking con Karimi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Pangea World Theater in partnership with The Asian Arts Initiative, Philadephia, and The National Performance Network, NPN and the NPN Creation Fund is sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Altria, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).
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