In Gestation

Detail of papercut for Kleist's story 'The Earthquake in Chile'.

1 —Two new Picture Storytelling Performances.

I am currently working on two new texts, one by Kafka and one by Jorge Luis Borges to add to my present performance of Kafka's The Vulture, and create an evening composed of three short performances.

2 —Writing

I am waiting for a response from the Kleist Museum to the work I submitted on Kleist’s On the Marionette Theatre, in which I offer an original investigation of the science and puppetry in the essay and a novel interpretation. Material connected to but not inlcuded in that article I am preparing for journals specializing in Puppet Theatre and in the art-science connection.

3 —Developing two new workshops

One concerns the the generation and use of co-speech gestures for which I am researching the underlying neuro-biology and cognitive science as the basis for the development of exercises I will offer actors, puppeteers, and storytellers.

The second workshop is about the art and techniques of paper-cutting.

Contact: patod3@gmail.com