Goat Island Performance Group
When will the September roses
bloom?
by Goat Island Performance Group
Presented in the Roy Bowen Theatre
Work-in-Progress Showings
January 22-24 at 8 PM
"Richly poetic."-Chicago Reader
Chicago-based interdisciplinary performance group Goat Island is an eight-member collaborative ensemble who has earned an international reputation with their evocative work blending text, movement and resonant imagery. To develop their latest work the group will have the resources of a multi-week creative residency on campus that will incorporate extensive interaction with students involved in theatre, visual arts, dance and literature at OSU. At the conclusion of this residency, Goat Island will present three work-in-progress showings of their latest piece.
Starting with the question "How do you repair?," Goat Island's new performance mines diverse sources for its dance/movement sequences, theatrical scenes and texts including the poetry of Paul Celan which inspired the new work's title, the 1928 silent film The Wind, the history of teaching the alphabet in America and household repair manuals among others. In this piece, Goat Island questions our place in a damaged world and our aptitude at repairing it.
More info: Website
Co-commissioned by Ohio State’s Departments of Art and Theatre in the College of the Arts and the Wexner Center, Performing Arts Chicago, Arnolfini (UK), Dance 4 (UK), New Moves International (UK), and Kampnagel (Germany).
Presented by Ohio State’s Departments
of Art and Theatre in the College
of the Arts and the Wexner
Center with support from the National
Performance Network.
The Wexner
Center for the Arts is a member of the National
Performance Network comprised of arts organizations located throughout
the United States. The NPN and this presentation of Goat Island have been
made possible with major funding from The
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). Also funded in part by the
OSU
Student Impact Grant, the Heartland
Arts Fund, the departments of Theatre and Art,
and the College
of the Arts.
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