Tess Dworman creates movement-based work using the tools of improvisation. Mel Elberg is a poet working in video, and frequently collaborates with artists of all mediums. Together they plan to explore and make new performance work that considers notions of theater, performative relations, etymology, and improvisation.
Join us for a preview performance of their new collaborative work, Performance-Con: Take One.
Intrigued by the inherently performative nature of conventions, like Comic-Con or Santa-Con, Dworman explores environments where people of mutual interests in niche cultures come together to play, imagine, and perform for each other or together. It is a paradigm that speaks to the dynamics of performance at its most basic level, questioning the roles of view, performer, and context: the relationship between spectator and spectacle.
Elberg's fascination is in word maps, the spontaneous legibility of poetry, and how writing constraints can lend themselves to performative scores.
Driven by theatrical monologues, dialogues, improvisational scores, translation, and profound naivete, the two will explore the wide range of intimacies and relations alive in the culture of live performance.
