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Life is Art

Life is Art and for me there are no boundaries separating them.  I perform and direct to learn how to live more fully and I live fully so that I may practice my craft with boldness and mastery.

When I cannot practice my craft my life diminishes and a part of me dies.  I must practice to reinvent myself and society.  I must practice to learn cultural fluency and to govern my life's transitions and experience my Renaissance.  I approach theater with trust, strength in my vulnerability and acknowledgement of the Mystery.  I try to use the theatrical event to honor our stories, give voice to our song, and to become what we behold.

Art cannot exist only in the hallowed halls of our civic centers and universities or for any particular elite.  Nor can it exist for mere entertainment of the ego.  It cannot be used to keep us complacent or stuffed full of ourselves.  It must speak the simple language of the heart and call us to become more fully human.  It must call with the urgency of our times and synthesize something more from the sum of our disjointed parts.

I try to hear the orchestra of life by living with the homeless, passing through my beloved nation as the 'other', making pilgrimages to the Mecca within our minds and bowing to those that walked before me.  I seek to work with all those who come willing to work and play, to recognize the insanity, and to rehearse the art and science of mutual transformation.

 

Peace Pilgrims
 
New Heads by Greig Steiner for the 24ft. Puppets from Trinidad

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