DUE TO THE UNIVERSITY CLOSURE, THIS WORKSHOP WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21.

Presented by Tony Perucci, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tony Perucci will discuss his scholarly and arts-based research on the origins and implications of the Six Viewpoints, an approach to performance training developed by the Bessie Award winning choreographer, dancer, and teacher, Mary Overlie. Developed in the interdisciplinary arts scene of New York's SoHo district in the 1970s, Overlie’s envisioning of a “horizontal” approach to performance introduces a radical equality of the materials of theatre and dance (Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement, Story) and of the performer’s relationship to them. The Six Viewpoints approach, and its attendant laboratories for performance, creates an opportunity to rethink the role of the artist from a creator-hero to an observer-participant in a state of becoming what Overlie terms, an “Original Anarchist."

Tony Perucci, PhD is an artist-scholar and an associate professor of performance studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published widely on experimental theatre, performance art, and activist performance, including the books Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism (Michigan UP 2012) and On the Horizontal: Mary Overlie and The Viewpoints (Michigan UP, forthcoming). A founding member of The Performance Collective, his original performance and devised theatre work has been seen in Germany, Brazil, and throughout the US.