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Not Every Mountain
March 30 – April 9 @The Off CenterMarch 30 - April 9, Thursday through Sunday at 8pm
Tickets $10 - $25
Perverse Results, Episode 1: Not Every Mountain is a work-in-progress performance designed by Thomas Graves, with text written by Kirk Lynn, and original compositions by Peter Stopschinski.This is one of Rude Mechs’ most beguiling performance ideas in a long time. Come get in on it early, while it’s still a work-in-progress and help us make it more better theatre.
So – it’s like this. We will gather to build a mountain using pulleys, cranks, magnets and string. We will shift your sense of scale again and again with simple magic – fly over the mountains, relax in the hidden valleys.
Come enjoy this one-of-a-kind experience with original soundscapes and music by Peter Stopschinski. A meditative litany by Kirk Lynn. Leave your cell phones on, let us borrow a few of them to light the mountains, to play bird songs and thunder as the rain comes through, to record the clouds.
If you want a play about characters: stay away, this is not that one.
If you want a mellow meditation on change, permanence and our place in the natural world, please be our guests.
Performances by Eva Claycomb, Pete Dahlberg, Thomas Graves, Kevin Jacaman, Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw, Jennifer Kidwell, Derek Kolluri, Kirk Lynn, Kelsey Oliver, and Panda Landa, with costume design by Aaron Flynn, lighting design by Brian H Scott, original music by Peter Stopschinski, and scenic design by Pete Dahlberg.Not Every Mountain is the first episode in Perverse Results, our long-form experiment in episodic collaboration. Episode 2, Gragariart, by Lana Lesley & Peter Stopschinski, will be presented August 2017.
ABOUT PERVERSE RESULTS
The Content
Perverse Results is a new performance for the stage investigating unintended consequences – those outcomes that are not foreseen or expected when we undertake an action. We’re excited to focus specifically on the perverse results (outcomes which are diametrically opposed to our intentions) that we have on the various environments we inhabit or migrate through. We’ll be interrogating themes of displacement, containment, home, neighborhood, and agency in the inherited built environment.The Process
Rather than congregating to make one cohesive piece over time, we are splitting up into smaller creation teams and building Perverse Results in episodes that will eventually be used to create one evening of theater, or we might destroy collaboration. We don’t know.The next episode of Perverse Results, Episode 2, is Gregariart – a noise and music excavation of the Ikea catalogue by Peter Stopschinski and Lana Lesley. The first draft will be shared in August 2017.
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Wild Places by Joanna Garner
March 3-18 2017 @The Off Shootpresented by groundswell theatre
Wild Places
March 17th and 18th Led by director Katie Van Winkle
Six immersive experiments about drugs, healers, and the unknown. Each performance invites the audience to take part in an interactive aspect of this play-in-development.Wild Places, written by Austin playwright Joanna Garner, explores the ways we as Americans attempt to heal and control our minds and bodies.
Each weekend’s performances feature actors Delanté Keys, Zoey Cane Belyea and Sean Moran, guided by rotating lead collaborators.
March 3 & 4: Led by director Michael Rau with Seattle filmmaker Nik Perleros
March 10 & 11: Led by writer/choreographer Patrick Shaw
March 17 & 18: Led by director Katie Van Winkle
There might be trampolines, psychedelics, blood, snakes, or bouncy balls. Very limited seating available— reservations highly encouraged.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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Wild Places by Joanna Garner
March 3-18 2017 @The Off Shootpresented by groundswell theatre
Wild Places
March 17th and 18th Led by director Katie Van Winkle
Six immersive experiments about drugs, healers, and the unknown. Each performance invites the audience to take part in an interactive aspect of this play-in-development.Wild Places, written by Austin playwright Joanna Garner, explores the ways we as Americans attempt to heal and control our minds and bodies.
Each weekend’s performances feature actors Delanté Keys, Zoey Cane Belyea and Sean Moran, guided by rotating lead collaborators.
March 3 & 4: Led by director Michael Rau with Seattle filmmaker Nik Perleros
March 10 & 11: Led by writer/choreographer Patrick Shaw
March 17 & 18: Led by director Katie Van Winkle
There might be trampolines, psychedelics, blood, snakes, or bouncy balls. Very limited seating available— reservations highly encouraged.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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Wild Places by Joanna Garner
March 3-18 2017 @The Off Shootpresented by groundswell theatre
Wild Places
March 10th and 11th Led by writer / choreographer Patrick Shaw
Six immersive experiments about drugs, healers, and the unknown. Each performance invites the audience to take part in an interactive aspect of this play-in-development.Wild Places, written by Austin playwright Joanna Garner, explores the ways we as Americans attempt to heal and control our minds and bodies.
Each weekend’s performances feature actors Delanté Keys, Zoey Cane Belyea and Sean Moran, guided by rotating lead collaborators.
March 3 & 4: Led by director Michael Rau with Seattle filmmaker Nik Perleros
March 10 & 11: Led by writer/choreographer Patrick Shaw
March 17 & 18: Led by director Katie Van Winkle
There might be trampolines, psychedelics, blood, snakes, or bouncy balls. Very limited seating available— reservations highly encouraged.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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Wild Places by Joanna Garner
March 3-18 2017 @The Off Shootpresented by groundswell theatre
Wild Places
March 10th and 11th Led by writer / choreographer Patrick Shaw
Six immersive experiments about drugs, healers, and the unknown. Each performance invites the audience to take part in an interactive aspect of this play-in-development.Wild Places, written by Austin playwright Joanna Garner, explores the ways we as Americans attempt to heal and control our minds and bodies.
Each weekend’s performances feature actors Delanté Keys, Zoey Cane Belyea and Sean Moran, guided by rotating lead collaborators.
March 3 & 4: Led by director Michael Rau with Seattle filmmaker Nik Perleros
March 10 & 11: Led by writer/choreographer Patrick Shaw
March 17 & 18: Led by director Katie Van Winkle
There might be trampolines, psychedelics, blood, snakes, or bouncy balls. Very limited seating available— reservations highly encouraged.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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Wild Places by Joanna Garner
March 3-18 2017 @The Off Shootpresented by groundswell theatre
Wild Places
March 3rd and 4th Led by director Michael Rau with Seattle filmmaker Nik Perleros
Six immersive experiments about drugs, healers, and the unknown. Each performance invites the audience to take part in an interactive aspect of this play-in-development.Wild Places, written by Austin playwright Joanna Garner, explores the ways we as Americans attempt to heal and control our minds and bodies.
Each weekend’s performances feature actors Delanté Keys, Zoey Cane Belyea and Sean Moran, guided by rotating lead collaborators.
March 3 & 4: Led by director Michael Rau with Seattle filmmaker Nik Perleros
March 10 & 11: Led by writer/choreographer Patrick Shaw
March 17 & 18: Led by director Katie Van Winkle
There might be trampolines, psychedelics, blood, snakes, or bouncy balls. Very limited seating available— reservations highly encouraged.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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Wild Places by Joanna Garner
March 3-18 2017 @The Off Shootpresented by groundswell theatre
Wild Places
March 3rd and 4th Led by director Michael Rau with Seattle filmmaker Nik Perleros
Six immersive experiments about drugs, healers, and the unknown. Each performance invites the audience to take part in an interactive aspect of this play-in-development.Wild Places, written by Austin playwright Joanna Garner, explores the ways we as Americans attempt to heal and control our minds and bodies.
Each weekend’s performances feature actors Delanté Keys, Zoey Cane Belyea and Sean Moran, guided by rotating lead collaborators.
March 3 & 4: Led by director Michael Rau with Seattle filmmaker Nik Perleros
March 10 & 11: Led by writer/choreographer Patrick Shaw
March 17 & 18: Led by director Katie Van Winkle
There might be trampolines, psychedelics, blood, snakes, or bouncy balls. Very limited seating available— reservations highly encouraged.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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A Rude Workshop @The Off Center
Creating Serendipity: generating text, movement, and performance as a trap for shock and grace.
Co-Producing Artistic Director Kirk Lynn will lead a 90-minute workshop on collaborative creation. Participants will work together in groups to create performance pieces. Pieces will be shared with each other, and then we will all gather ’round for a boozy snacky hangout afterwards.
Class size is limited – reserve your spot today!
We’re excited you are coming to create with us. Please oh please if you decide to not show up, let us know – shoot us an email – so we can make your seat available to someone else.
Please arrive in time to warm up. Please come dressed to move, bring writing materials and your favorite songs.
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A Rude Salon @The Off Center
hosted by Lisa Moore and Desiree Morales
We’re putting on a Salon. It’s FREE, join us!To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we’ve assembled an all-star line-up of Rude academics for an evening of rollicking yet rigorous conversation over food and drink. Performance studies, queer theory, feminism, whiteness, experimental art, running a collective, community building, big feelings, and more: this will be a not-to-be-missed meeting of the minds!
As much as Rude Mechs has been influenced by Austin’s music scene, we’ve always had strong ties to the academic world too, especially at The University of Texas at Austin. From 1990s rehearsals in the ROTC building and Parlin Hall, to dissertations being written on the Rudes today, from our own undergraduate years, to our recent tenure as Resident Theatre Company to the Department of Theater and Dance, the Rudes have benefitted from smart professor audiences and supporters. One of the Artistic Directors is even a professor himself now.
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Salvage Vanguard presents
THR3E ZISTERS
FEB 3RD – 18TH @The Off Centerpresented by Salvage Vanguard Theatre
THR3E ZISTERS
February 3 – 18, 2017
Written by Lola Pierson and Directed by Yury Urnov
The show critics called “beautiful,” “fascinating,” and “seriously amazing.” Winner of four Austin Critics Table Awards including Best Production of a Comedy, Thr3e Zisters is an amalgamation of an adaption of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, a literal translation of Russian text, and dramatic criticism of Chekhov.