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Performance Archive 2000 - 2006
 

2005 - 2006

Euro Tour "eternal return" in Germany and Poland Director Ron Bieganski
Mahagonny Adapted from Brecht, performed in Berlin, created in collaboration with German and Polish youth Directors Ron Bieganski, Franz Josef Hödl, Daniel Jacewicz
Unsullied "You are so totally pregnant!"
"But I'm a virgin, just like my mother."
Director Ron Bieganski
eternal return A car crash leaves a group of girls spinning around the moment in a blusey story structured like memory.

Director Ron Bieganski
Her Notorious Quill The female muses of Biggie, Tupac, Poe, and Longfellow speak their mind. Director Shawn Reddy
     

2004 - 2005

eternal return
A car crash leaves a group of girls spinning around the moment in a blusey story structured like memory.

Director Ron Bieganski

Recyclone Outdoor performance spectacle with puppets, bikes, and catapults. Coproduction with Columbia College Directors Bryn Magnus & Brian Shaw
Blindfolded Examining issues of democracy and fundementalism through the lens of 9/11 and the Iranian Hostage Crisis Director Robert Karimi

Pluto: the Opera* Hip-hop Opera by Idris Goodwin, Coproduction with Hermit Arts Director Tony Sancho
Shut Mouth Karaoke A group of stranger trapped in a bus station, a mash-up of lyrics from Cole Porter to 50 Cent.
Director Idris Goodwin
Gossip Town Children's show about the potential hurtfulness of gossip. Director Ashley Winston
Where Does Crazy Come From? A play for children about the origins of wild behavior Director Mica Cole

2003-2004

Euro Tour "Undergoing Therapy for the Entire World" in Germany Director Ron Bieganski
Null/Zeros Adaptation of Zeros created in collaboration with Kamnagle Theater in Hamburg, Germany. Performed in English and German with youth from Chicago and Hamburg. Toured Germany. Director Ron Bieganski


MadJoy Cinema
Short films written, performed, directed and edited by the MadJoy ensemble. Directors Ron Bieganski, Andrea Long, Aileen Chang, Dorothy Jawarska
Sonic Ardor Concrete meets the drum beat in this interdisciplinary exploration of space, structure and sound. Collaboration involving The Association House, Free Street, and Columbia College Departments of Audio Arts and Acoustics, and Art and Design Director Luis Crespo



The Angel in Moloch A Re-Bopped ecstatic flight off of Allen Ginsbeg's "Howl" poem. Director Bryn Magnus
Deep Wholeness The 'Hero's Journey' in contemporary personal stories transformed into myths and metaphors. Director Robert Karimi


play/dead jugar/muerte A shout out from the Spanish Civil War for the Freedom of the World. play/dead is a collaboration involving Columbia College Theater Department, Music Theatre Workshop, Proyecto hACE, Chicago Friends of the Lincoln Brigade, Free Street Programs and Columbia College Office of Community Arts Director Jenny Magnus
Musical Director Jamie O'Reilly



Tell Me Where To Be The conflict between progress and preservation brought to life in the context of the relocation of the historical Maxwell Street market.
Director Ron Bieganski

The Dizzy Birds vs. The Somersault Flowers    
The Day the Earth Stood Still    

2002- 2003

Euro Tour Skeptics  
Undergoing Therapy for the Entire World    
Flip the Hip Hop Script    
...And You Don't Stop    
Tough    
Up To The Sky    
UnderGround Progressions    
Apologies Child    
Messy Jessy vs. the Spy of Love    
Ribbitt Troll My Sister's Head    

2001 - 2002

Skeptics    
AboveGround    
Old School/ New School Visionary Language Arts    
"Si La Gente Quiere Comer Carne, Le Damos Carne"    
Quartets for Six    
hobo love stories    
ZEros    
Up, Up and a Ray    
Light as a Feather    

2000 -2001

ZEros    
     
     
     
     
     
     


1999 - 2000

     
     
     
     
     
     
     



 

 

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