CONTINUOUS CITY


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CONTINUOUS CITY. Image by dbox.

Through 2007-8, The Presence Project will be closely following the development of The Builders Association's current project, CONTINUOUS CITY. At its culmination and as it begins touring worldwide, this page will provide access to a major documentation and timeline of the making of this performance, offering insights into the company's process and this project's developing character and implications.

From Shanghai to Los Angeles, Toronto to Mexico City, CONTINUOUS CITY tells the story of a traveling father and his daughter at home tethered and transformed by speed, hypermodernity, and failing cell phones. The characters they interact with pursue their own transnational business, from an internet mogul exploiting networking across the developing world to a nanny who blogs stories about the people and places she encounters. The show reaches directly into each city it tours to through a participatory website and on-site filming to create a global and local production. CONTINUOUS CITY is about people far from home, CONTINUOUS CITY is where we live now.

To explore the CONTINUOUS CITY website go to [link]

For full details of The Builders Associations' touring schedule, please go to [link]



documentation



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Work in progress, Krannert Centre, University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, July 2007.-

Developed in close collaboration with the company, our documentation will track a timeline of key events and collaborations, with contributions from Marianne Weems, Artistic Director of The Builders Association, as well as company members and project contributors. The site will also provide commentary and analysis by Presence Project collaborators.

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Development workshop, St Ann’s Warehouse, February 2008

Ranging from extracts from Marianne Weems' preparatory notebooks to interviews at key moments with company members to analyses and accounts of process and outcomes, the site will provide a unique dialogue between The Presence Project and the evolution of a major theatrical work.

What follows here is a brief visual diary that will evolve as the company develop their work. Our full documentation will be published on this site in January 2009, following the opening of CONTINUOUS CITY in the Fall of 2008.


timeline



notes towards CONTINUOUS CITY



Krannert centre, July 2007


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Work in progress, Krannert Centre, University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, July 2007.

UC Berkeley workshops, September-October 2007


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CONTINUOUS CITY: Excerpts from a work in progress by The Builders Association, Zellerbach Playhouse,
UC Berkeley Art Museum Theatre, 5-7, 11-13 October 2007.

script development, january 2008



design development workshop, february 2008


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Development workshop, St Ann’s Warehouse, February 2008

residency at The Kitchen, NYC, june 2008



rehearsal, spring/summer 2008


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Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Work-in-Progress, September 2008. Image by Eamon Lochte-Phelps.

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Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Work-in-Progress, September 2008. Image by Eamon Lochte-Phelps.

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Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Work-in-Progress, September 2008. Image by Eamon Lochte-Phelps.

opening, fall 2008





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