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Rachel's Brain and Other Storms

Rachel Rosenthal: Performance Texts

Rachel Rosenthal author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:1st Sep '01

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Rachel Rosenthal is an internationally recognised pioneer in the field of feminist and ecological performance art. Her revolutionary performance technique integrates text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation, inventive costuming, dramatic lighting and wildly imaginative sets into an unforgettable theatre experience. In the last twenty years she has presented over thirty-five pieces nationally and internationally. She has been called 'a monument and a marvel' and critically ranked with Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, Ping Chong, Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson. Her work is passionately dedicated to interrogating, illuminating and improving the relationship between human beings and the planet we share with so many other species. Her performances explore and embody the long history and urgent future of this deeply troubled relationship, and use viscerally compelling performance to draw us into a direct experience of the beauty and power of our lives in nature.

"She and her troupe...offer a mind altering meditation on purity and the loss of it--both personally and globally."--American Theatre Journal
"The kinetic ingenuity of this company of eight is striking, its ensemble unity smoothly cohesive . . . It is always spellbinding to see an impulse initiated by one performer instinctively extended by several others without premeditation or visible effort . . . The uniqueness of Rosenthal's company lies in the fact that out of a well lubricated mechanism, Rosenthal has created a living organism."--Los Angeles View
"[Her] company is remarkable . . . Each displayed striking stage presence, inherent talent in several performance disciplines, and professional polish."--Los Angeles Times
"Elegant madness."--LA Weekly
"Think of Rosenthal's work as an antidote to LA's easily consumable entertainment industry, offering sharp commentary on our lives at the end of the 20th Century."--Buzz Magazine
"Larger than life. Much."--The Hartford Courant, December 23, 2001

ISBN: 9780826448972

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 440g

240 pages