AnthrApology: Affirmations for the Beginning Times
Creative Research Workshop
AnthrApology: Affirmations for the Beginning Times, a 24-hour play project, offered opportunities to work with faculty David Fancy (Writer-Director), David Vivian (Scenographer), Colin Bruce Anthes (collaborating artist and performer), DART faculty guests, graduate and undergraduate students.
AnthrApology: Affirmations for the Beginning Times is a directed installation performance with a planned initial outcome of 12 hours in length for December 2024. It consists of over 100 texts situated and times in spaces across the human experience that explore humans' need to move beyond supremacist thinking and practices in their relationship with each other and the world. Featuring readings, movement, dance, installation, complementary digital worlds, soundscapes, AnthrApology is a profound affirmation of the role of theatre in enacting a performance commons and making a new world for all of us, human and beyond.
AnthrApology creation took place in the context of the DART Research Institute over the spring and summer of 2024. We focused on words, spaces, bodies, more-than-human worlds, dramaturgies, divination, objects, voices, online notes & traces. We captured images, expanded our group of collaborators, talked at length, called ourselves the 4THOT Collective, and -- without préciosité -- created moments that resonated for all in the studio. After over three years of regular exploration (beginning with David V and David F’s work on AnthropoScene that started in 2021) we arrived at flashes of intensity, at mutable and evolving senses of relevance and purpose about the project. We decided it made sense to start to do open exploration sessions with invited audiences for our next time around.
Information about the Summer 2024 programming at the Department of Dramatic Arts.
