VIDEO #4: "Floor Work"

This is the fourth of six new video documents of Massimiliano Balduzzi's solo physical training for performers. These videos document a research in solo physical training developed by Massimiliano Balduzzi over…

VIDEO #1: "First Sequence"

Over the next three months, I will be posting six video documents of Massimiliano Balduzzi's solo physical training for performers. These videos document a research in solo physical training…

VIDEO #3: "Third Sequence"

This is the third of six new video documents of Massimiliano Balduzzi's solo physical training for performers. These videos document a research in solo physical training developed by Massimiliano Balduzzi over…

It's history is…

VIDEO #2: "Second Sequence"

This is the second of six new video documents of Massimiliano Balduzzi's solo physical training for performers. These videos document a research in solo physical training developed by Massimiliano Balduzzi…

Video, photos & text by Harry James Hanson…

above: Yuko Kaseki, all photos by Shige Moriya      

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image: Eden Nova & Kemeya Harper

On April 27 & 28th, Robot Immigrants premiered "My Heart Is a Traveler" at…

photo by Samuel Huber

Faraday Cages.

Always a game of disruption and calm.  Some examples of Faraday Cages: (intentional or not)

A microwave oven

An elevator

A "booster bag" --the one crafty shoplifters use to boost items without them getting detected by the…

above: photo of the central room of the installation, bubble gum on display, photo by Ayumi Sakamoto

Funny this relationship between exhaustion and bliss.  Catharsis and ecstasy.  They both have their short runs, short run sentiments, short run utopias.  Yet there is always the climactic…

I love a good detective story. I love them the most when the detective has no idea what the case is, exactly, or how to proceed. A lot of 'em start from this point, and then become boring as things begin to make sense. I want to be watching someone, knowing that the person's actions may be deadly important, but without a notion as to what it is that the person is up to.…

Above: Our poster in front of the museum, photo of LEIMAY's Floating Point Waves

'been flirting with distant futures and long shores along the city's periphery.  What could have been and what is now.  And scores of grime fighting for a place in my stomach, on the back of my broken neck, my broken face…

After our discussion in class today, I've been thinking about how we all are constantly chasing goals and striving to "become" something. And once we do become it, we have moved on to something else. So we are constantly in a process fo becoming-- we need to be. Otherwise, we're stagnant, and are almost inhuman.

But there's also this linear order of everything, and general acceptance of the fact that time is a line. When in fact, many people say that events are just…

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So...What is a Movement Think Tank? Before I participated, I wasn't too sure. It is definitely an event that requires the physical doing to help understand. For LEIMAY's upcoming piece in September, "Becoming-Corpus," Ximena has been thinking up new possibilities for movement exploration. As a way to incorporate the many people who may not be exposed to performance, she has asked perfect strangers [but in this case, friends (or friends of friends) of LEIMAY] to venture into a movement…

"The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. -- When in love, the sight of beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate.

Yet this…

Polina Klimovitskaya in Conversation Part I: Transformation.

Polina Klimovitskaya is the Artistic Director of Terra Incognita Theater and teaches acting at Yale University and Michael Howard Studios, among other places in the USA and abroad. She has taught acting for more than 30 years. I began studying with her in 2004 and…

Ok, so this one's a collaboration: I made the mistake of suggesting to fellow LEIMAYer Savina that we sort of work together this month, asking her to supply a question to which I'd respond in writing. She agreed, and offered this: "Do you think that the piece we are working on will be a good one? Do you believe in it?" My blood ran cold. But here goes:

This question…

Labanna Babalon is an artist manifesting her own reality as a sexually awakened woman, an emissary of Whoreship and proponent of alien existence. Her unorthodox artwork commonly takes the forms of video, audio, and live performance which she skillfully synthesizes with social media.…