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Artist Statement
It is within Story that we find meaning. For me the experience of theatre, the nuts and bolts of its architecture and craft, provides me with clues in my search for a human meeting. It is painfully clear to me that we can no longer afford to meet each other so seldom. In real human meetings, exchange and refreshment takes place. Something happens. Vitality and meaning is given and received and offered again. This exchange invites a larger ecology to join and is based on deep psychological reciprocity. This exchange is inherent in quality theatre and it teaches us how to be present to the fullness of each other and ourselves. Theatre helps recognize the essence of things. The Greeks used the word ousia to describe the realness of things, the essence of a tree, a stone, a mountain, a baby, an animal. Theater helps us find glimmerings of reality, those verisimilitudes or likeness to what exist beyond our finite world of empirical experience. With the theatrical event we can move from social amnesia to ousia. In partnership with our senses and our memory we can search for realness, in a world increasingly focused on the unreal. The theatre that I seek is one in which I can find help in fellow human beings who share in the human condition, and yet reveal to me structure, sacrifice, and service...and who are free enough to be open to the freedom and responsibility of creation. Jinx Davis
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Peace Pilgrims
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There is one
universal characteristic of humans that identifies our species. We
are storytellers. It is our oldest form of teaching and our form of
dialogue within ourselves, our communities, and our gods. Story is the
means of our transformations, both personal and cultural. In Jean
Houston's words "You are the living connection between the great stories
of all times and places and the playing out of these stories in everyday
life. Beneath the soil of your everyday world lies the vast root
system of Once Was and the Could Be."
