The Work of New World Performance Laboratory

A Search for Authentic Space

Jerzy Grotowski 1933-1999

Principles of Creation in NWPL

The Actor is Architect of his/her own time/space, i.e. action

A theatre of research which operates in the craft tradition, where art is not separated from daily life.

An ecological theatre whose purpose is not to demonstrate one’s virtuosity or identity, but to penetrate one’s own humanity—to enter authentic space where “meeting” can occur.

Two Impulses: Modern Creativity and Traditional Creativity

The Balcony (1991) by Jean Genet

The Dybbuk (1993)

Subject to Fits (based on Dostoevsky’s The Idiot) (2001)

The First Impulse

Towards Modern Creativity (or is it?)

The Book of Saints and Martyrs (#1)

The Book of Saints and Martyrs (#2)

Terence Cranendonk as Antonin Artaud

Terence CranendonkAnd Jairo Cuesta as The Tarahumara Shaman

Woyzeck (Fragments from a Morality Play as Performed by the Prodigies of Dr. Somnus’ Freak Show) (1998)

HamletMachine (2000)

Debora Totti and Jairo Cuesta

Love in the Time of Lunatics (2001-2002)

Zywy Proch (Living Dust)

Performed in Poland as part of NWPL’s Gildia Project (2003)

El Misantropo (2000) in Bogota, Colombia

Tartuffe (2005)

Winesburg, Ohio (2002-2003)

Produced in collaboration with The University of Akron, School of Dance, Theatre and Arts Administration

Design by Adel Migid

Deathwatch (2004)

Stairway to ParadiseA Cabaret Soul Journey

with Megan Elk

The Second Impulse: Traditional Creativity

The Ancients (1992)

The Rendering or Essential Demonstrations

Four Corners