PearlDamour

Have you ever been a tree-climber?

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:31:37 +0000

We’d love to hear about it.

So…how DO you build a forest?

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:24:40 +0000

WELL, that’s exactly what we’ve spent the last month or so thinking, talking, and debating about. We’ve launched work on HOW TO BUILD A FOREST, our project which is equal parts sculpture and performance, with our collaborator visual artist Shawn Hall (meet her by going to her website HERE). The three of us have just finished a month spent traveling to old-growth and second-growth forests and other natural systems (like oceans, pitcher plant bogs, rivers, and gulf-coast communities), spending time in those places with the people who know them best.

In British Columbia, Katie’s friend John Mason (who spent his life working in forests in logging camps) was an absolutely amazing guide and host; in Mississippi, Shawn steered us towards expert friends like Tate Thriffiley , a forest ranger in De Soto National Forest who got us intimate with the Long Leaf Pine eco-system and introduced us to some beautiful carnivorous plants, and in Louisiana we spent time with Elizabeth Underwood, who shared dinner with us in her studio populated with stuffed alligators; Lisa connected us with Monique Pilie, her cousin who started a nonprofit that is replanting all the trees lost in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina, and Nick Slie of Mondo Bizarro brought us to his fishing camp on Lake Veret where he took us into a cypress swamp– a first for Katie.

Throughout it all, we were working and talking under the shadow of the Oil Spill in the gulf, which is, as you might imagine, working its way into the ecosystem of our piece. How do you build a forest? The question is a big one. Stay tuned as we search for the answer through our research and the performance itself, set to premiere at The Kitchen, NYC next June. More updates on this project and other goings on soon….

What does it feel like to you inside a forest?

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:03:48 +0000

We’re starting to work on our next piece, and we want to know!

PearlDamour featured on Fractured Atlas blog

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:52:31 +0000

Fractured Atlas is a fantastic fiscal agent serving lots of artists around the country– including us. They did a really fun interview of us during the COIL run of TERRIBLE THINGS. Let us know what you think after you check it out HERE. Now, we are off to work on our next project — look back in about a month for more news!” Love, Lisa and Katie

Last chance to see Terrible Things!

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:07:19 +0000

We have 4 more shows left– we’re moving the show from the large upstairs space at PS122 to the tiny downstairs space, so it’s going to be much more intimate and immersive. It’s great to be part of the COIL Festival along with so many amazing colleagues. We’re excited. Hope you can make it. Just head to the Terrible Things page for a link to tickets.

Final weekend of Terrible Things

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:10:09 +0000

Ok, so you have 4 more chances to get to Terrible Things before having to wait until our shows in January. If you want to read some press, click HERE to see where the Village Voice says “Pearl and D’Amour prod the boundaries of theater and performance art, working to transform straightforward narrative into something richer, stranger, and ineluctably feminine,” and HERE, where the Gothamist calls Emily’s choreography “an imaginative mix of angular obsessiveness, lunging, tangling, and indescribable contortions,” and says that we will take you to a “temporary astonishment zone.” We’re astonished that it’s almost over! And don’t forget to answer our “Katie and Lisa want to know” question– we want to keep that research coming in! Thanks to all who have let us know how much the show has affected them– see everyone soon!

Let’s do it. Don’t miss out. Tickets HERE. Discount codes still in action: FF15 for a $15 ticket, FF241 for two-for-$20.

2 dates to remember: opening night, and converations with culture!

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:03 +0000

Hi Everyone, 2 dates for you to keep in mind right now: First, Opening Night is FRIDAY DEC 4th-- come this weekend if you can, so you can help spread the word as the run continues (through Dec 20th). Tech rehearsals are going very excitingly, and as always, tickets are available HERE. Second, PS 122 is hosting a Conversations with Culture Panel for the show on TUESDAY DEC 9th. It will be at this cool place called the Sony Wonder Technology Lab, on Madison Ave at 56th. It’s free, so click here RSVP. They describe it this way:

On December 9th, PS122 will host the second discussion in its new Conversations with Culture series, “Contemporary Performance and the Multiverse.” The conversation uses as its launching pad PS122 artists Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl’s work Terrible Things, a new collaborative work exploring the multiverse though personal narrative, particle physics, and a shifting “set” of 600 marshmallows that stand in for particles, potential energy, and the sub-atomic realm. Panelists will discuss the role and ramifications of contemporary performance as a mode of articulating scientific theory and expressing our human experience of the laws and mysteries of the physical universe. These events are free and open to the public and endeavor to reinsert performance into the cultural, economic, and environmental debates coursing through contemporary society, from which it has recently largely been excluded.

Participants Include:

David Z. Albert, Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience and Time and Chance
Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl – co-creators of Terrible Things, which premieres at PS122 on December 4th.
Brian Schwartz, Director of the Science & The Arts program at the CUNY Graduate Center and 2009 winner of the Andrew W. Gemant Award, given annually by the American Institute of Physics to recognize significant contributions to the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension of physics.

Put both these dates in your calendars and we’ll see you there! Katie and Lisa

Have you ever had an out of body experience?

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:09:26 +0000

Would you describe it for us briefly?

TERRIBLE THINGS ONLY 3 WEEKS AWAY!

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:31:59 +0000

Yes, we’re opening on December 4th. Rehearsals in Minneapolis are going awesomely, and the show is really finding itself. Our costume designer Oliver Gajic sent us some costumes through the mail to try out which has been a total blast. We head to NYC to start working with the rest of the cast next week. Get your tickets to the show NOW! And don’t forget to check out our pre-show BLOG! And of course… our BRUNCH with Katie’s mom is happening next week! We’d love it if you could join us. Thanks for the support!

Blog, Brunch, and Barbells

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:10:55 +0000

Check out our NEW TERRIBLE THINGS BLOG – this is where L & K muse on many of the topics that weave together to make our show, including terrible breakups, quantum physics and parallel lives. The blog is a little wormhole in and of itself – let yourself get sucked in! We like to move through it from the oldest entries to the most recent — try it! We’re having BRUNCH with Nancy Pearl, superstar librarian, action figure, and book recommender to the world. The brunch is a benefit for TERRIBLE THINGS– we’d love to see you there. And finally, we’re on our way to Minneapolis to start our last round of rehearsals before heading to NYC to put the show in the PS122 space. Katie’s been lifting lots of BARBELLS to prepare for the show! We need her strong for this one! And as always– hop over to our “Lisa and Katie want to know” page to answer our current question– and don’t forget to get tickets to the show here, or to the benefit brunch here!