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CONTINUOUS CITY timeline


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

Through 2007-8, The Presence Project will be closely following the development of The Builders Association's current project, CONTINUOUS CITY. As the project evolves, so this site will offer 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 considers the sense of place within 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 context, and how electronic connection contributes to--and complicates--that sense of place. We are at a watershed moment where more people in the world are living in cities than in rural environments – from the megaslums of Lagos and Mumbai to the gated communities of Palm Springs. and local production. CONTINUOUS CITY is a meditation on how contemporary experiences of location and dislocation stretch us to the maximum as our ‘networked' selves occupy multiple locations. During the development of the project, company members will travel to various megacities around the world to create and collect video material, including Mumbai, Lagos, and Mexico City. The company has begun to develop the frame for these components during residencies at the Krannert Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

Integral to about people far from home, CONTINUOUS CITY is a website designed as a performance space where members of the public may participate in the project by joining a chorus, entering into dialogue with characters and uploading images, all of which may be added to the theatrical production. Uploaded material may also be viewed from the site. we live now.

Visit [link] to explore and participate in this part of the project.

As this process develops in close collaboration with the company, this page will provide access to a changing timeline of key events and collaborations, with contributions from Marianne Weems, Artistic Director of The Builders Assocaition, as well as company members and project contributors. The site will also provide commentary and analysis by Presence Project collaborators.

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

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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



residency at The Kitchen, NYC, june 2008



rehearsal, spring/summer 2008



opening, fall 2008




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