![]() ![]() We have an ongoing physical training practice that is both a foundation of our collaborative devising process, and a means of conducting exchanges across disciplines and contexts. Formed in 2009 by Richard Newman and Liza Bielby, our work has been seen at the Shanghai Biennale, the Berlinale, Alverno Presents, Flynn Center, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Charlestown Working Theater, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit among others. We create a space for our audience to be in this unknown hinterland with us through techniques that disarm and disorient, short-circuiting expectations and luring them into unexpected interactions. Our performances smash seemingly disparate images and ideas together, culminating in new, highly layered meanings that are greater than the sum of their parts. From our original touring pieces to the events we curate in our Detroit neighborhood, our work is built around pressing into the unknown areas of our personal and collective history with fearless physicality and a sense of humor. THE HINTERLANDS is a Detroit-based company creating performances and public events that are highly irrational and deeply American. Knight Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the NEA Artworks program. The performance was commissioned by Legion Arts, Power House Productions and Alverno Presents with generous support from the National Performance Network, the John S. ![]() WHAT THE PRESS HAS SAID: Check out Rosie Sharp’s review of the piece in Hyperallergic The Radicalization Process asks us to question our assumptions about what drives us to take action, how far is too far, and what role the imagination has in revolution. Imagery unfolds both mundane and shocking a live-score is performed on analog synthesizers and everyday objects L’Internationale is sung an explosion occurs. Audiences begin the performance sifting through a basement archive of a forgotten revolutionary, navigating histories true and false, real and imagined, before they make their way into the performance space, a safe-house within a house in 1970s Detroit. Layering historical accounts of the radical left in the 1960’s and 70’s with a master class in American method acting, socialist pageantry, and a gleefully obtuse re-production of The Living Theatre’s Antigone, THE RADICALIZATION PROCESS stokes the embers of America’s past revolutions to ignite our radical potential. July 6 & 7 at 8pm, Sunday July 8 at 4pmĪn original performance by The HinterlandsĬreated and Performed by Richard Newman, Liza Bielby, and Dave Sanders.Īrchive Creation by Casey Rocheteau and Liza Bielby ![]()
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