CONTINUOUS CITY timeline
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. 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 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.
Work in progress, Krannert Centre, University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, July 2007.
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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.
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, this process will provide a unique dialogue between The Presence Project and the evolution of a major theatrical work.
timeline
notes towards CONTINUOUS CITY
Krannert centre, July 2007
Work in progress, Krannert Centre, University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, July 2007.
UC Berkeley workshops, September-October 2007
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
All images courtesy of The Builders Association.
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