Small cast needed for Columbia Unviersity MFA Visual Arts Thesis Performance at the Fisher Landau Art Center in Long Island CIty THIS SUNDAY.   Must be available for rehearsal from 1030am-1230pm Saturday the 17th, 1030-1230pm Sunday the 18th and a live performance from 2pm-4pm Sunday the 18th.

Choreographer, visual artist and performance artist, Christina Sukhgian Houle has created a multimedia installation and living sculpture to be activated by the bodies of dancers and actors on Sunday the 18th.  By exploring Houle’s interest in family, social and fictional histories she and the cast will aim to gain more information about the transmission and processing of affect. 

For the last three weeks Houle rehearsed, researched and developed this project inside her living sculptural installation at Fisher Landau.  This performance will represent the culmination of her labors and studies there by drudging through through the annals of sensorial wherewithal to confront mayhem with diligence and whimsy.  

Using sculptural costumes, an absurdist senisbility, Baroque humor and gestural drama Houle and her cast will examine how trauma is stored and healed by the body.  Perfromers will be asked to spend most of the perforamnce inside a large sculptural costume and to annimate the object using minimal and repetative gestures.  Perfromers of all reces, ages, genders and body types highly encouraged to apply though those with backgrounds in athletics, meditation, yoga, physical theatre or puppetiering may find the rehersal process to be more accesible.  All interested parties should call to schedule a phone interview.  

Christina Sukhgian Houle has studied and worked at The Second City in Chicago, Illinois as well as performed at Second City's Donny's Skybox.  Her performances and videos have received multiple awards and honors, including being named by the Austin Chronicle as one of the Top Ten Dance Phenomena.  Her videos have been presented in the Netherlands and Mexico and she has taught and performed at comedy and dance festivals throughout the US.

Ms Houle served as a visiting artist to Spelman College (GA) and she is a 2012 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Idea Fund Grant.  She has participated in residencies at Mildred’s Lane and SOMA Mexico and will complete here MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University this year. 

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