East River Commedia (Paul Bargetto, Artistic Director) announces the 4th annual undergroundzero festival of experimental theater, featuring over twenty New York City and European theater companies and artists at the legendary downtown performance venue Performance Space 122, July 6-25.
Founded in 2007, the undergroundzero festival gives producing artists a platform where risk-taking and innovation are both encouraged and expected. Artists are invited to bring a production of their choosing to join a flying repertory dedicated to radical play and experimentation. It may be a new work or a past production that deserves another life – whatever best serves the individual or collective artists growth and agenda.
The 2010 festival line-up will include new work from downtown New York companies and artists Performance Lab 115, Doris Mirescu, Leigh Evans, Aztec Economy, Pinchbottom Burlesque, José Zayas, Anna Brenner, Mercedes Murphy, Shoshona Currier, David Barlow, Saviana Stanescu, Jeff Grow, terraNOVA Collective, and East River Commedia. Also for the first time this year, the festival is expanding its programming internationally. Experimental theater companies Green Hours Theater (Romania), axis ballymun (Ireland), Compagnia Lafabbrica (Italy) and Theater Bielefeld (Germany) will all be bringing work to the festival for the first time.
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In Cars/AutoMotive performs a work in progress showing at the 2010 undergroundzero festival July 24 & 25.
East River Commedia presents the first draft of their trilogy exploring American Identity. The search begins in the ubiquitous American machine – the automobile – with appearances by Henry Miller, James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, Curtis Turner and Dwight Eisenhower.
Directed by Paul Bargetto. Conceived and Created by Paul Bargetto, Heather Denyer, and Amy Jenson.
Performed with ERC company members Troy Lavallee, Heather Benton, and Morgan Lynch. Including Nora Wooley, Catherine Friesen, and many more.
Choreography by Natasa Trifan |
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East River Commedia is a group of international artists who collaborate
on the production and development of ensemble-based performance works in New York City and abroad. Recognizing the need for greater international representation in theater and performing arts in New York, the company works closely with international artists, consulates and cultural organizations to reach out to the city's many communities.
In addition, the members of ERC believe in the importance of a wide scope of influence and audience, and are committed to productions, tours, and residencies in foreign countries as an integral part of the group’s ongoing development.The company is interested in theater that emerges at the crossroads of poetry, music and gesture. In these forms, we seek to explore human desires—for power, love, belonging and possession—and to uncover
the contradictory and mysterious drives that bind audience and performer,
parent and child, individual and society.
Our most powerful tool is laughter, a kind of laughter that Fellini calls:
“...the intention of the real—that is, the deepest and most honest—writers of comedy,” authors who want “only to tear open our most painful scars so that we feel them all the more strongly.” (*) |
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