Casting: Floodlines

[smerlin]

If you are in to performance art, this is a really neat project to be involved with. I did it last year.


Hi Everyone,


I write with exciting news! The City of Austin is funding a 4th annual installment of FLOODLINES, the site-specific performance memorial in Hyde Park which I conceived in 2003 and have directed for the last 3 years! This year's production is set for Sunday, April 22 @ 2pm, and you are invited to participate/perform/collaborate!

About the show:
Conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, FLOODLINES is a site-specific performance installation mapped onto the landscape of Austin, Texas. The performance unfolds over a three-mile stretch of land--on the streets, lawns, and sidewalks of Austin's historic Hyde Park neighborhood. As the audience travels through the piece as a funeral cortege, and a soundtrack plays in each car, the performers--all costumed in white, appear en route, performing repetitive acts that range from the quotidian to the surreal. As the performers appear, disappear, reappear, and disappear again, the audience is asked to consider the relationship between presence and absence, memory and loss, history and ghosts.

What it involves:
All participant/peformer/collaborators must be available the afternoon of the production, April 22.

All particpant/performer/collaborators must be available the day before the production, April 21, for a photo/video shoot & dress rehearsal (likely the afternoon).

All participant/performer/collaborators must be available *one other morning or afternoon*, for approximately 2 hours total, anytime between April 6-April 20, for a rehearsal with me and with a small group of other participants/performer/collaborators. Sean Jenkins, our fabulous stage manager, will be in touch with interested participant/performer/collaborators about rehearsal scheduling and availability. For now, the schedule is TBA.

All participant/performer/collaborators *are very ideally* available April 7th, 3-5pm, for a Hyde Park Garden Party and Benefit, at the home of the incredible Ann Graham, production manager for FLOODLINES.

I would love to have each and every one of you involved!! If you are interested, please email Sean Jenkins (stage manager) and let him know you're game

( seanpjenkins@gmail.com ). Anyone who wants to be involved can! Please also include the following info:

your full name
your email address
your best phone number
confirmation that you are available for the show (4/22) , the dress (4/21), and a rehearsal (TBA)
confirmation that you are available (hopefully) for the garden party (4/7)


Thanks so much! If you know someone else who might be interested, please feel free to forward this email! (For more info on FLOODLINES , you can read last year's blog @ http://www.floodlines2006.blogspot.com)




Love, love, love,
Jaclyn Pryor, Director

FLOODLINES 2007

[AustinsIrishPirate]

Definitely interested.

[smerlin]

This is happening again. Here is the info:


PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!


Hi everyone!



You are invited to participate in the 5th annual installment of FLOODLINES, the site-specific performance memorial in Hyde Park, directed by Jaclyn Pryor. The show is set for Sunday, April 20, 2008!



About the show:

Conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, FLOODLINES is a site-specific performance installation mapped onto the landscape of Austin, Texas. The performance unfolds over a three-mile stretch of land--on the streets, lawns and sidewalks of Austin's historic Hyde Park neighborhood. As the audience travels through the piece by car, the performers appear en route, performing repetitive acts that range from the quotidian to the surreal. As the performers appear, disappear, reappear, and disappear again, the audience is asked to consider the relationship between presence and absence, memory and loss, history and ghosts.



Time committment:

All participants must be available the afternoon of the production, April 20.



All participants must be available the day before the production, April 19, for a dress rehearsal.



All participants must be available one other morning, afternoon or early evening, for approximately 2 hours total, anytime between April 1-April 18 for a rehearsal. Sean Jenkins, FLOODLINES' incredible stage manager, will be in touch with interested performers about rehearsal scheduling and availability. For now, the schedule is TBA.



All participants *are very ideally* available April 5th, 3-5pm, for a Hyde Park Garden Party and Benefit, at the home of the incredible Ann Graham, production manager for FLOODLINES.



We would love to have you working on this exciting project!! If you are interested, please email Sean Jenkins (stage manager) and let him know you're game (seanpjenkins@gmail.com). Anyone who wants to be involved can!



Please also include the following info:

your full name

your email

your best phone number

confirmation that you are available for the show (4/20), the dress rehearsal (4/19), and a rehearsal (TBA)

confirmation that you are available (hopefully) for the garden party (4/5)



Thanks so much! Please feel free to forward this email to anyone!



Love,

The floodlines Production Team (Jaclyn, Sean, and Ann)



FLOODLINES is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the

Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and

an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great

nation deserves great art. Special thanks to Austin Circle of Theatres, our fiscal agent.