Rachel
Perlmeter is a crossmedia artist working in the interstitial spaces between theatre, dance, sound, film, installation art, and the book arts. Her texts for performance
include OSTENTATIOUS POVERTY, MOSCOW PLAYS, WANDERLUST, NEURASTHENIA, and several works for radio including THERE
ARE NO SNAKES IN THE GARDEN. Her
writings for the stage have been developed and supported by the Playwrights' Center and the Soap Factory in
Minneapolis; Soho Think Tank’s Sixth Floor Series and Mabou Mines’ Suite
artist residency program in New York; the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and Lost Nation Theater in Vermont; and the Department of Theatre
and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a Masters’
in Theatre History and Criticism and was the recipient of two Foreign Language
and Area Studies grants for her interdisciplinary work on Russian theatre, a
Social Sciences Research Council grant for excellence in the humanities, and a
Morton Brown Scholarship. She has been
a Fulbright artist and a TCG/International Theatre Institute fellow working
with experimental theatres in Russia and has recently been awarded an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board as well as a Jerome Foundation mentorship at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
Recent projects have included the creation of a radio show
devoted to experimental narrative techniques called WORDS & MUSIC for WRUV
FM; a staging of Brecht/Weill’s radical masterpiece The Threepenny Opera
with full orchestra in an old dining hall; and a multi-part interdisciplinary investigation of the Ballets Russes. Part 2 of the Ballets Russes Project: THE PERILS, was part of Artery 24, a festival of experimental performance and new media in Minneapolis. Part 3, Glass Chapel Dance (for Les Noces), premiered at Intermedia Arts during the Dance Film Project festival, and a symposium she curated celebrating the troupe's centennial was held at Macalester College in St. Paul. Working with the College as a guest artist, she directed a large-scale production of Marat/Sade with an original score by J. Anthony Allen, Noah Keesecker, and Joshua Clausen. At present she can be found in the Twin Cities where she is completing her first novel. Her latest radio play, ENVELOP(E), is part of Skewed Visions' Cubicle series of podcasts on the theme of work, a gallery installation at MCBA just opened and is on view thru January, and she is developing a new project inspired by the travels of Antonín
Dvořák... stay tuned
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