Idea, Movement, Image
Posted by DCA Theater on February 22, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, DanceBridge Showcase Winter 2012
Submitted by Madeleine Reber, participant in DanceBridge Winter Session 2012 
Rehearsal this week was pretty heady – trying to bridge conceptual ideas and movement material. The exploration of awkwardness, in movement and in life, is leading me to think a lot about isolation and loneliness, the experience of feeling different. This brings me back around to how we respond to “difference” in others, how easy it is for a group of people to shun an individual who does not conform in some way. Here I am awash in big ideas and social concepts, wanting to bring it back to the body, and the choreographed image.
I am creating movement material that comes out of improvising with these concepts or improvising with more concrete images of people relating to one another or in apparent isolation (a woman on a bus, moving her hands in some mysterious, intricate pattern). Yesterday we worked as a group, building duets and some kind of aggressive collective frenzy. I don’t know yet what the duets are about. There is something there about anchoring and freeing.
We ended rehearsal talking about what kind of worlds we each create in our own minds, and how our individual neuroses manifest in personal metaphors.
Contour of a Composer
Posted by DCA Theater on February 21, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, Incubator Series: Vintage Theater Collective
Interview with Joshua Dumas, Composer, currently working with Vintage Theater Collective on Lion on the Cheesegrater in the DCA Theater Incubator Series 
Who is Joshua Dumas? What is your musical background?
My name is Joshua Dumas; I’m an artist in Chicago primarily composing music for dance, film, and theatre. I tend toward a distractible curiosity, so sometimes I make photographs, and artist books, and perform, and make films, and write poems, and make semi-operas.
I took the long back way to music composition, from years of playing punk, and then art-rock, then discovering free-jazz and noise, and from there drone, to finally realizing that these experimental musicians were looking to 20th century classical music for influence. I fell in love with that music, and with putting notes on a staff, and with that moment when notes on a staff become music in a room.
Meet the Director
Posted by DCA Theater on February 20, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, Incubator Series: Vintage Theater Collective
Interview with Sarah Cameron Sunde, the Director currently working with Vintage Theater Collective on Lion on the Cheesegrater in the DCA Theater Incubator Series 
Q: Who is Sarah Cameron Sunde?
SCS: Well, nowadays I like to describe myself as a theater director who creates interdisciplinary performances for the stage and beyond. I started directing while living in England in 1997 and was influenced by European traditions of expressionism and devising work. In New York, I’m most well-known for bringing the plays of Jon Fosse from Norway to the U.S., being passionate about the art of translation, directing new American plays, and running New Georges with Susan Bernfield for the last 10+ years. Lately, I’ve been returning to my devising roots and making more work from scratch, with a particular interest in working with artists of different disciplines. Outside of Lion on the Cheesegrater, my main focus is a long-term project I’m developing with a dancer, a composer, an actor, a visual artist and two video artists. I’m more and more excited about finding the line between visual art and contemporary performance.
Yadira Correa Reveals
Posted by DCA Theater on February 17, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, The Ghost is Here
An Interview with Yadira Correa, the actress playing Toshie for Vitalist Theatre’s current production of The Ghost is Here at DCA Storefront Theater 
Q: You play the classic comic wife in The Ghost is Here—pioneered by Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows right up to contemporary sitcoms like Everybody Loves Raymond and The King of Queens. So, are you the “take no prisoners” kind of wife in real life?
YC: I don’t think so…..when I was married I was younger so I was trying to be supportive. I am always afraid of emasculating the men in my life because I am an opinionated, strong person. I’m a strange bird…I do take charge and sometimes I don’t…depends on the situation. If there is someone with a more take-charge attitude, I have no problems stepping to the side and following their direction. I’m a workaholic and a problem-solver, so once a problem is presented to me I will solve it, this can be seen as take-charge I guess. Then again there are plenty of times that I just ride along and support whatever the person in charge is doing.
Q: You are amazing in that you drink a gallon of water a day—or more. What got you started and do you notice a difference?
From Farm Town to Classroom to Chicago Stage
Posted by DCA Theater on February 16, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, The Ghost is Here
An Interview with Darrelyn Marx, the actress playing the Old Woman & Ensemble for Vitalist Theatre’s current production of The Ghost is Here at DCA Storefront Theater 
I have been acting, singing, and performing since I was a kid. Growing up in a small town on a farm was a blessing because it forced us to find our passions in our playtime. I was always outside making ‘discoveries’ and playacting - putting my ‘dressed-up’ cats in a baby buggy and taking them on a journey to ‘town’ to buy groceries. When forced indoors, I took up teaching. My younger brother and sister were my first students, in a classroom that I had made for them out of TV trays and a small chalk board. Worksheets that I made for them were corrected with my trusty red pencil. I had even more ideas after I started first grade and emulated a teacher that I adored.
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