Opening July 2018
NEW NATION
What do you call “home?”
And what may force you to leave?
Building on the success of Guerrilla Theatre Works: At What Cost?, this third phase of Convergence Theatre's devised Guerrilla Theatre Works presses the troubling and changing concept of home, both here and abroad as we build a New Nation.
Guerilla Theatre Works: A New Nation is generously supported in part by
ARCH Development and the Anacostia Arts Center
Playing July 6-29, 2018 at the Anacostia Arts Center
1231 Good Hope Road SE
Washington, DC 20020
www.convergencetheatre.org
NEW NATION
What do you call “home?”
And what may force you to leave?
Building on the success of Guerrilla Theatre Works: At What Cost?, this third phase of Convergence Theatre's devised Guerrilla Theatre Works presses the troubling and changing concept of home, both here and abroad as we build a New Nation.
Guerilla Theatre Works: A New Nation is generously supported in part by
ARCH Development and the Anacostia Arts Center
Playing July 6-29, 2018 at the Anacostia Arts Center
1231 Good Hope Road SE
Washington, DC 20020
www.convergencetheatre.org
Featured in the DC Women's Voices Theatre Festival 2018
This Is All Just Temporary
by Olivia Haller
See the trailer below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYZPG0Dlxps
FIVE STARS! - "Using projections, movement, and some classic storytelling techniques, this production puts a new spin on the theme that the people we love the most can also make us feel the most “stuck.” - Jon Bavoso, DC Theatre Scene.
dctheatrescene.com/2018/01/22/just-temporary-convergence-theatre-review/
"..Powerful and griping....This is All Just Temporary breaks your heart and then puts you back together even stronger than before." - Kendall Mostafavi, DC Metro Theater Arts
dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2018/01/24/review-just-temporary-convergence-theatre-womens-voices-theater-festival/
This Is All Just Temporary
by Olivia Haller
See the trailer below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYZPG0Dlxps
FIVE STARS! - "Using projections, movement, and some classic storytelling techniques, this production puts a new spin on the theme that the people we love the most can also make us feel the most “stuck.” - Jon Bavoso, DC Theatre Scene.
dctheatrescene.com/2018/01/22/just-temporary-convergence-theatre-review/
"..Powerful and griping....This is All Just Temporary breaks your heart and then puts you back together even stronger than before." - Kendall Mostafavi, DC Metro Theater Arts
dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2018/01/24/review-just-temporary-convergence-theatre-womens-voices-theater-festival/
This Is All Just Temporary by Olivia Haller, directed by Elena Velasco. Actors featured: Fabiolla da Silva, Raven Wilkes, Axandre Oge. Stage Management by Laura Schlachtmeyer; Lights and projections design by Philip da Costa; Set Design by Alex Miletich IV; Costumes by Madeline Belknap; Props by Carrie Kirby.
Photo credit: Ethan Malamud.
AWARD WINNER!
Anacostia Arts Center Residency and ARCH Development Grant 2017-2018
Anacostia Arts Center Residency and ARCH Development Grant 2017-2018
Nominated for the 2017 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company!
2017-2018 Season Announcement!
Convergence Theatre’s Collaborative Artistic Exchange
A professional artist forum and praxis for integrating performance and social action
Saturday, November 11, 2017, 5-7pm
2155 Crystal Plaza Arcade, T-19, Arlington, VA 22202
This is All Just Temporary
written by Olivia Haller
January 19 - February 10, 2018
Featured production in the DC Womens' Voice Theatre Festival 2.0
Anacostia Arts Center
1231 Good Hope Road SE
Washington, DC 20020
A New Nation
Created by the Convergence Theatre collective
Our third Guerrilla Theatre Works devised performance
July 2-July 29, 2017
Anacostia Arts Center
1231 Good Hope Road SE
Washington, DC 20020
convergencetheatre.org
Convergence Theatre’s Collaborative Artistic Exchange
A professional artist forum and praxis for integrating performance and social action
Saturday, November 11, 2017, 5-7pm
2155 Crystal Plaza Arcade, T-19, Arlington, VA 22202
This is All Just Temporary
written by Olivia Haller
January 19 - February 10, 2018
Featured production in the DC Womens' Voice Theatre Festival 2.0
Anacostia Arts Center
1231 Good Hope Road SE
Washington, DC 20020
A New Nation
Created by the Convergence Theatre collective
Our third Guerrilla Theatre Works devised performance
July 2-July 29, 2017
Anacostia Arts Center
1231 Good Hope Road SE
Washington, DC 20020
convergencetheatre.org
Click below to have a look inside the Convergence Theatre process and mission!
Witch. Photo Credit: Ryan Maxwell. Featuring (L-R) Janani Ramachandran, Sharalys Silva, and Stephanie Tomiko. Set Design: Josh Rosenblum; Costume Design: Kateri Kuhn and Ali Rocha; Lighting and Projection Sound: Philip da Costa.
CONVERGENCE THEATRE
Define Performance. Discover Humanity.
Mission
Convergence Theatre is a home for socially conscious artists who wish to spark dialogue between diverse communities through new theatrical structures. Convergence Theatre fosters a process-oriented arts collective, addressing widespread human struggles and unique cultural experiences by evolving theatre’s performance language through newly developed works. By engaging in an interdisciplinary approach to dramatic creation, Convergence Theatre produces multi-sensory performances that invite a wide audience base, encouraging discourse and dialogue over issues of social conscience.
Vision
Convergence Theatre aspires to create a new generation of theater artists and patrons whose understanding of human expression is fully realized through multi-layered experiential communication, achieved through the fusion of the various elements of the dramatic arts. By accentuating the unique and the universal within symbol systems, Convergence Theater hopes to reach a multi-generational and multicultural audience base, thereby deepening and extending the examination of contemporary society and how to impact social change.
Guiding Principles
We believe that:
· Theater is evolutionary and revolutionary by nature; we must foster change in our expression in order to
more deeply examine our thoughts, practices, and interactions with others.
· Through its multi-disciplined nature, theater is essential to cultivating understanding and compassion.
· Focused work on non-traditional communication heightens our comprehension.
· The synthesis of many arts disciplines allows us to expand the ability to create engaging imagery and artistic vision.
· By embracing many forms of communication, all ages can develop a greater respect for one another.
· Multi-generational and multicultural audiences encourage the involvement of all in the conversation of social change.
· Through experiencing the stories of many cultures and generations in an artistic spectrum we foster a greater appreciation for the uniqueness of other people while identifying our common bonds.
- Collaboration yields the most compelling performances.
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Define Performance. Discover Humanity.
Mission
Convergence Theatre is a home for socially conscious artists who wish to spark dialogue between diverse communities through new theatrical structures. Convergence Theatre fosters a process-oriented arts collective, addressing widespread human struggles and unique cultural experiences by evolving theatre’s performance language through newly developed works. By engaging in an interdisciplinary approach to dramatic creation, Convergence Theatre produces multi-sensory performances that invite a wide audience base, encouraging discourse and dialogue over issues of social conscience.
Vision
Convergence Theatre aspires to create a new generation of theater artists and patrons whose understanding of human expression is fully realized through multi-layered experiential communication, achieved through the fusion of the various elements of the dramatic arts. By accentuating the unique and the universal within symbol systems, Convergence Theater hopes to reach a multi-generational and multicultural audience base, thereby deepening and extending the examination of contemporary society and how to impact social change.
Guiding Principles
We believe that:
· Theater is evolutionary and revolutionary by nature; we must foster change in our expression in order to
more deeply examine our thoughts, practices, and interactions with others.
· Through its multi-disciplined nature, theater is essential to cultivating understanding and compassion.
· Focused work on non-traditional communication heightens our comprehension.
· The synthesis of many arts disciplines allows us to expand the ability to create engaging imagery and artistic vision.
· By embracing many forms of communication, all ages can develop a greater respect for one another.
· Multi-generational and multicultural audiences encourage the involvement of all in the conversation of social change.
· Through experiencing the stories of many cultures and generations in an artistic spectrum we foster a greater appreciation for the uniqueness of other people while identifying our common bonds.
- Collaboration yields the most compelling performances.
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---------------------REVIEWS FROM PAST PRODUCTIONS-----------------
Named Top Five Shows of the Week by MD Theatre Guide
theatrewashington.org/content/take-ten-elena-velasco
Convergence Theatre presents
Witch
"If she is a witch, who then is not?"
Are witches born or made? Convergence's production, Witch, exposes the parallel lives of those damned in history to those damned in our midst. Through a merger of projections and movement, classical language clashes with verbatim text to challenge audiences to exorcise the real demons within us.
"...Spiritual and all-encompassing." - MD Theatre Guide.
mdtheatreguide.com/2016/10/theatre-review-witch-at-convergence-theatre/
"....Mesmerizing to watch and movingly performed." - DC Metro Theater Arts.
dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2016/10/17/review-witch-convergence-theatre-mead-theatre-lab-flashpoint/
October 12-30, 2016
Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint
916 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
This production was made possible by the CulturalDC 2016-17 grant.
Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint
916 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
This production was made possible by the CulturalDC 2016-17 grant.
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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR CONVERGENCE THEATRE'S WITCH!
"....Mesmerizing to watch, and movingly performed." - DC Metro Theatre Arts.
dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2016/10/17/review-witch-convergence-theatre-mead-theatre-lab-flashpoint/
"...Spiritual and all-encompassing." - MD Theatre Guide
mdtheatreguide.com/2016/10/theatre-review-witch-at-convergence-theatre/
"The game cast of director Elena Velasco's Witch knit together shades of The Crucible and The Exorcist to provide an arresting experience that serves as a dark morality play and timely reminder of women's ongoing fight for safety and equality." - DC Theatre Scene
dctheatrescene.com/2016/10/17/witch-potent-brew-convergence-theatre/
BHAVI the AVENGER triumphs!
"Whimsical, resourceful..." - Celia Wren, Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/theater-dance/inaugural-offering-from-convergence-theatre-is-whimsical-and-resourceful/2015/09/30/3b0c3bda-66be-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html
"Director Elena Velasco’s spare staging puts the audience right in the action...the result is engrossing....this enigmatic play will stay with you long after." - John Stoltenberg, DCMetroTheaterArts.
DCMetroTheaterArts. http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2015/09/27/bhavi-the-avenger-at-convergence-theatre/
Haunted by a slain elephant, Bhavi is set on a quest to avenge this gruesome death. Though named the chosen one, Bhavi's desire to only be one of many thrusts him into a world of cowboys in corporate suits. Written by Tearrance Chisholm, directed by Elena Velasco and developed by the Convergence Theatre collective, Bhavi the Avenger opens the conversation over the issues surrounding the "model minority" in the US, and how cultural identity shapes our world.
"Whimsical, resourceful..." - Celia Wren, Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/theater-dance/inaugural-offering-from-convergence-theatre-is-whimsical-and-resourceful/2015/09/30/3b0c3bda-66be-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html
"Director Elena Velasco’s spare staging puts the audience right in the action...the result is engrossing....this enigmatic play will stay with you long after." - John Stoltenberg, DCMetroTheaterArts.
DCMetroTheaterArts. http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2015/09/27/bhavi-the-avenger-at-convergence-theatre/
Haunted by a slain elephant, Bhavi is set on a quest to avenge this gruesome death. Though named the chosen one, Bhavi's desire to only be one of many thrusts him into a world of cowboys in corporate suits. Written by Tearrance Chisholm, directed by Elena Velasco and developed by the Convergence Theatre collective, Bhavi the Avenger opens the conversation over the issues surrounding the "model minority" in the US, and how cultural identity shapes our world.
Bhavi the Avenger. Written by Tearrance Chisholm, directed by Elena Velasco. Featuring Marquis D. Gibson. Lighting by Nate Collard, set by Josh Rosenblum, costumes by Madeline Belknap. Photo credit: Tori Boutin.
Bhavi the Avenger. Written by Tearrance Chisholm, directed by Elena Velasco. Featuring Marquis D. Gibson and Latia Stokes. Set design and shadow puppetry by Josh Rosenblum; lights and projections design by Nate Collard; costumes by Madeline Belknap. Photo credit: Tori Boutin
Honored by DCMetroTheaterArts Best of 2015
Best Directors of a Play in Professional Theatres
Best Plays in Professional Theatres
Best Performances
http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2015/01/04/dcmetrotheaterarts-best-of-2015-18-directors-play-in-professional-theatres/
http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2015/12/21/dcmetrotheaterarts-best-of-2015-best-plays-in-professional-theaters4/
http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2015/12/26/dcmetrotheaterarts-best-2015-8-best-performances-play-professional-theatres1/
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At What Cost? /Qué Sacrificaría? A search for home in an unsafe world. Buscando una casa en un mundo inseguro. Una espectaculo homenaje a los que deben huir su hogar para encontrar un hogar. Esa obra estará presentar en inglés, español y una lengua de moviemento. |
Convergence Theatre's production of Nurse Fawn. Directed and choreographed by Elena Velasco, written by Tearrance Chisholm. Featuring Inés Domniguez del Corral, Ali Rocha, Ellen Abhood, and Justin Smith.