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Combining symbols and archetypes from the Torn Space mythology with branded imagery from fashion designers BUREAU, OGLXRY, Vice Paradise and Kylie Priscilla, Boulevard observes the process of constructing the self in an age of hyper-connectivity, \u201cinfluencer\u201d personas and the omnipresent desire for self-optimization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audiences of 20 will experience the performance within two realms; the actual and the virtual.\u00a0 In the actual world we witness performers occupying their private spaces; they rest, make a drink, bide their time and confront one another. This equilibrium is fractured when a disturbing anonymous phone call is received, prompting the players to take refuge and gently slip into a fantasied and fetishized sense of self that occurs within virtual reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The choreography for the live performance is based upon Torn Space Theater\u2019s 2017 staging of Harold Pinter\u2019s The Collection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Torn Space Staff<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Artistic Director &#8211; Dan Shanahan<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Associate Director &#8211; Melissa Meola<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Production Manager &#8211; Carly Weiser<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assistant Technical Director &#8211; Daniel Toner<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing Director &#8211; Marisa Caruso<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technical Director &#8211; Matthew DiVita<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audio Technician &#8211; Dan Neveu<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing &amp; Social Media &#8211; Holly Kirkpatrick<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Designers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>VR Creation &amp; Film &#8211; FLATSITTER<br \/>Costume Design &#8211; Joseph Stocker\/BUREAU<br \/>Sound Design &#8211; Justin Rowland<br \/>Lighting Design &#8211; Eclectric Oil and Light<br \/>Set Design &#8211; David Mitchell<br \/>VR Fashion Designers &#8211; OGLXRY, Kylie Priscilla, Vice Paradise<\/p>\n<p><b>Performers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nikiya Garza<br \/>Justin Leis<br \/>Holly Kirkpatrick<br \/>Carmen Swans<br \/>Kalub Thompson<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Boulevard<\/em> used selected excerpts from the following text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Origins of Totalitarianism<\/span> by Hannah Arendt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Weight of the World<\/span> by Peter Handke<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trick Mirror<\/span> by Jia Tolentino<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The Collection<\/em> by Harold Pinter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Voice Over:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holly Kirkpatrick<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masoumeh Mirzai<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diane Gaidry<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpts from Hannah Arendt\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Origins of Totalitarianism<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were used in this production. We have included the text below for your reference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat we call isolation in the political sphere, is called loneliness in the sphere of social intercourse. Isolation and loneliness are not the same&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;While isolation concerns only the political realm of life, loneliness concerns life as a whole. Totalitarian government, like all tyrannies, certainly could not exist without destroying the public realm of life, that is, without destroying, by isolating men, their political capacities. But totalitarian domination as a form of government is not content with this isolation and destroys private life as well, it bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is the most radical and desperate experiences of man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo them, violence, power, cruelty, were the supreme capacities of men who had definitely lost their place in the universe and were much too proud to long for a power theory that would safely bring them back and reintegrate them into the world. They were satisfied with blind partisanship in anything that respectable society had banned, regardless of theory or content, and they elevated cruelty to a major virtue because it contradicted society\u2019s humanitarian and liberal hypocrisy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe truth is that the masses grew out of the fragments of a highly atomized society whose competitive structure and concomitant loneliness of the individual had been held in check only through membership in a class. The chief characteristic of the mass man is not brutality and backwardness, but his isolation and lack of normal social relationships. Coming from the class-ridden society of the nation-state, whose cracks had been cemented with nationalistic sentiment, it is only natural that these masses, in the first helplessness of their new experience, have tended toward an especially violent nationalism, to which mass leaders have yielded against their own instincts and purposes for purely demagogic reasons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTerror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated against each other\u2026 Therefore, one of the primary concerns of all tyrannical governments is to bring this isolation about. Isolation may be the beginning of terror; it certainly is its most fertile ground; it always is its result. This isolation is, as it were, pre totalitarian; its hallmark is impotence insofar as power always comes from men acting together\u2026; isolated men are powerless by definition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn isolation, man remains in contact with the world as the human artifice; only when the most elementary form of human creativity, which is the capacity to add something of one\u2019s own to the common world, is destroyed, isolation becomes altogether unbearable\u2026 Isolation then becomes loneliness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical, and desperate experiences of man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLoneliness, the common ground for terror\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3-641x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3-641x1024.png 641w, https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3-188x300.png 188w, https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3-768x1226.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3-962x1536.png 962w, https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3-1283x2048.png 1283w, https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3.png 1691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boulevard Directed by Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola\u00a0Virtual Reality by FLATSITTER Nov. 4-5, 11-12, Dec. 1-3, 8, 10 2022 About Boulevard Incorporating footage captured during CrossWalk, Torn Space\u2019s summer fashion show and art party experience, this new performance explores layers of identity through the presentation of fashion, glamor, and power structures occurring in both public &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5214,"parent":1777,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5090\/revisions\/5184"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}