Monday, January 28th at 7:30 PM
Join us in conversation with three performers from Nature
Theater of Oklahoma: Elisabeth Conner, Anne Gridley
and Robert Johanson during their run of Life
& Times: Episodes 1-4 at the Under the Radar Festival presented by Soho Rep and The Public Theater.
NATURE THEATER
OF OKLAHOMA is an award-winning New York art and performance group
under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. Since Poetics: a ballet brut, their
first dance piece created as an ensemble, Nature Theater of Oklahoma has
been devoted to making the work they don’t know how to make, putting themselves
in impossible situations, and working from out of their own ignorance and
unease. They strive to create an unsettling live situation that demands
total presence from everyone in the room. They use readymade materials
around them, found space, overheard speech, and observed gesture, and through
extreme formal manipulation, and superhuman effort, they affect in their work a
shift in the perception of everyday reality that extends beyond the site of
performance and into the world in which we live.
