Overview
Rooms play is a social experience/experiment that gives the audience an opportunity to be the main character in an intimate journey. The play consists of a string of situations/performances that occur back to back in a constructed labyrinthian space. We intend to create a magically charged trans-formative space for all. By creating these rooms, it is possible for the audience and performers to take responsibility of the story and radically alter the course of events. In this way, the play becomes a rehearsal for reality, in which the audience has an opportunity to remember and actualize the full scale of their power in everyday life. We want to make our participants aware how transformative, wildly empowering, and supremely, deliciously magical they can be.
The elements of our spaces and interactions will bind us as people. This will be achieved through performance, installation, and audience participation. Each room will be completely manicured by the artist in congruency with a conceptual foundation.
In our journey during March 2010 we merged the concept of Joseph Campbell's Mono-myth with the systematic fluidity of the digestive system. The digestive system acted as a foundation to create movement through our spaces, while the idea of the Mono-myth acted as a narrative starting point for the interactions between the "performers" and "participants".
With a list of over 30 collaborators, Rooms Play was an intensive artistic collaboration:
Sam Shea
Monica Mirabile
Hosey Corona
Person Ablach
Pilar Diaz
Noemi Campbell
Adam Dirks
Marcello Cunha
Alisa Urtiaga
Katelyn Murphy
Rod Hamilton
Mary Alessi
Rebecca Nagle
John Kan
Lindsay Rowinski
Kat Sotelo
Kvn Blakistone
Guy Werner
Madeline Peters
Amanda Schmidt
Kelly Bjorn
Susan Diaz
Alejandro Diaz
Claire Plumb
Alisa Alig
Alex D'Agostino
Chris McGuinness
Katherine Ralston
Liz Zacharia
Carabella Sands
Theresa Columbus
Sarah Magida
Luuyaa Rae Neal
Becca Rogers
John Somers
Elizabeth Hollon
Rachael London
Rooms Play is set to happen again during April and May 2011, with new themes and collaborators.
