Alexandria, Virginia
Rodrigo Toscano & Cole Swenson (photo by Mel Nichols)
Alexandria, Virginia
Jeremy Gardner, Rodrigo Toscano, Cole Swenson (photo by Mel Nichols)
Alexandria, Virginia
Kelly Brown (photo by Mel Nichols)
“'Players can be of any age, gender, or accent' is appended to *every single* CPT piece." -- Rodrigo Toscano
Alexandria, Virginia
Rodrigo Toscano & Kelly Brown (photo by Mel Nichols)
Alexandria, Virginia
Rodrigo Toscano (photo by Mel Nichols)
"The CPT fits into the poetry scene as a baby does in itchy burlap. The CPT fits in the drama scene as does a little crown, little scepter, little gown, all neatly stored in a metal suitcase (the dings are just dings)." -- Rodrigo Toscano
Alexandria, Virginia
Jeremy Gardner & Tom Orange (photo by Mel Nichols)
Alexandria, Virginia
Tom Orange (photo by Mel Nichols)
Alexandria, Virginia
Jeremy Gardner (photo by Mel Nichols)
Alexandria, Virginia
Laura Elrick (photo by Anne Kingsbury)
"Check it out: not a minute to yourself, not a hang-nail’s worth of deliberation to relieve throughout your high capitalist day—everybody up to their necks with poems, and still, your poem—cannot be tested—any further!?" -- Rodrigo Toscano
Milwaukee, WI
Rodrigo Toscano & Chuck Stebbleton (photo by Anne Kinsbury)
Milwaukee, WI
Rodrigo Toscano, Roberto Harrison, Laura Elrick (photo by Kathy Cunningham)
"We don’t aim for after-theater candlelight dinner beauty standards, but a stringy-haired love-hangover quality" -- Rodrigo Toscano
Williamsburg
Rodrigo Toscano & Frank Sherlock (photo by Laura Elrick)
Alexandria, VA
Rod Smith & Tom Orange (photo by Kaplan Harris)
Brooklyn, NY
MH gearing up to coordinate "Cordoned" for December 2007 performance at Small Press Traffic Literary Reading Series.
San Francisco
Lindsey Boldt, Dennis Somera, Erika Staiti (photo by Stephanie Young)
"The text for Cordoned can be characterized as a semi-contained social-psychological crisis, a formalization of an incipient collective consciousness from the vantage point of the collapse of a previous collective consciousness." - Rodrigo Toscano
San Francisco
Erika Staiti, Dennis Somera, David Brazil, Lindsey Boldt (photo by Stephanie Young)
"In the transition from one form of self-to-group-ratio to another, a momentary vacuum of un-“theorizable” causality (rendered bodily as opposed to “found” (and redirected) temporally), avails new tension-and-release points in the Inner Group’s potential to recombine." - Rodrigo Toscano
San Francisco
Pro PROCESO Demonstration Video Clip (10 sec.), Venezuela (photo by Stephanie Young)
San Franciso
Erika Staiti, David Brazil, Linsey Boldt, Dennis Somera (photo by Stephanie Young)
San Franciso
David Brazil, Lindsey Boldt, Erika Staiti (photo by Stephanie Young)
"...neutral stance is truly neutral. not a "ready stance" on the balls of feet. players adjust/stretch/limber...encourages entities to remain aware of and respond to implications of performance unfolding *right now*" -- Maxwell Heller
San Francisco
Dennis Somera (photo by Stephanie Young)
"This recombinatory activity is the practical-theoretical root of the Collapsible Poetics Theater (CPT), its projection outward into the Contact Zone signals and affirms that it is the Outer Groups’ continual formation (wrought by their respective “inner” dynamics), that is the CPT’s central, albeit anxious concern." -- Rodrigo Toscano
San Francisco
David Brazil, Lindsey Boldt (photo by Stephanie Young)
San Francisco
Lindsey Boldt, David Brazil, Maxwell Heller, Erika Staiti, Dennis Somera (photo by Stephanie Young)
"by making sensual the revolutionary-necessary initial breach of a singular consciousness through the performance of Body Movement Parameters (BMP’s), the CPT finds itself already-un-cordoned (!) in the midst of a speculative metrics of mass subject-making." - Rodrigo Toscano
San Francisco
Erika Staiti, Maxwell Heller, Lindsey Boldt, David Brazil, Dennis Somera (photo by Stephanie Young)
"The muted promise of historical futurity through common work is directed at the immediate (asleep but aroused, dreamy but prowling) Now." - Rodrigo Toscano
San Fransico
Maxwell Heller, Alli Warren, Suzanne Stein (Timken Hall, CCA) (photo by Cynthia Sailers)
San Francisco
Maxwell Heller doing BMP's (Body Movement Parameters) (photo by Cynthia Sailers)
"So that by making sensual the revolutionary-necessary initial breach of a singular consciousness through the performance of Body Movement Parameters (BMP’s), the CPT finds itself already-un-cordoned (!) in the midst of a speculative metrics of mass subject-making." -- Rodrigo Toscano
San Francisco
Rodrigo Toscano and Maxwell Heller doing BMP's [minute 15] (photo by Cynthia Sailers)
"...the muted promise of historical futurity through common work is directed at the immediate (asleep but aroused, dreamy but prowling) Now..." -- Rodrigo Toscano
San Francisco
Maxwell Heller and Rodrigo Toscano doing BMP's [minute 19] (photo by Cynthia Sailers)
"While Cordoned is an exploration of personal-mass politics through the spatiality and architectonics of bodies alongside others, while Clock, Deck and Movement is more an exploration of the time-release dimension of language and body-movement." -- Rodrigo Toscano
San Francisco
Maxwell Heller and Rodrigo Toscano doing BMP's [minute 21] (photo by Cynthia Sailers)
San Francisco
Rodrigo Toscano doing BMP's [minute 26] (photo by Cynthia Sailers)
San Francisco
Maxwell Heller, Alli Warren, Suzanne Stein, Stephanie Young (photo by Cynthia Sailers)
Manhattan
Maxwell Heller & Rodrigo Toscano doing BMP's (Body-Movement Parameters) (photo by Laura Elrick)
"Deep Emotion as opposed to Surface Emotion! Deep Emotion being something that’s episodically aggregative, multiplexed, like a poem’s internal associations (as a whole) meeting the “other” / “outside” / “world” (as a whole). The touch-point, dramatic beauty of that meeting like a Greenland ice-sheet dropping at midnight, barely seen, barely heard, hurting no one in particular…but still…a thunderous irreversible initiation into a new environment!" -- Rodrigo Toscano
Manhattan
Kristin Prevallet, Holly Melgard, Paolo Javier, Maxwell Heller
Manhattan
Maxwell Heller, Holly Melgard, and Paolo Javier read BMP's while Kristin Prevallet reads the "clock"
East Village, NYC
Rodrigo Toscano & Paolo Javier read ZF deck
