Middlebury College

one step at a time like this

award-winning Australian theatre company in residency January 15-29

Co-sponsored by The Axinn Center for the Humanities, Climate Action and Middlebury Performing Arts Council

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE COMMUNITY

Join us for any of these incredible events that are part of a January term residency and arts exchange centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance

ABOUT THE VISITING COMPANY:

one step at time like this

one step at a time like this is a group of artists who create participatory, locative and site responsive works. Based in Melbourne, Australia, on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung lands.

Employing an expanded notion of theatre, one step at a time like this create works that are place-responsive and subtly participatory. Our works blend the everyday world with live and digital elements, allowing the real world to enhance the virtual or fictional and vice versa. There are three main threads to our work: audience, place, and interconnectedness.

Audience: We have an abiding interest in the place and role of the audience, and we are often inventing ways to allow the activity of the audience – their actions, their feelings, their imagination – to emerge as an essential element in the work.

We often incorporate technology, but use the digital always to support the live experience of the audience. We’re much more interested in contemplation and reflection rather than spectacle, or the technology, in itself.

Place: Our work supports deep intimacies with place, forging a more personal relationship to public space – and also an intimacy with others and one’s self through place.

Interconnectedness: As audiences move through public and private places within our works, they are wound in – through walking, the physical journey – through time – through lingering in unknowing – through words and music and the details of the world itself – imperceptibly becoming creative agents in the journey, until they find themselves and that same ‘everyday’ world suddenly enriched, heightened, more.

Ecodramaturgy and reimagining Shakespeare: a round table

Dan Brayton, Professor of English, and members of One Step at a Time Like this discuss climate and Shakespeare

Thur 1/15 4:30-5:45pm in MAC 232

One Step at a Time Like This: an artists talk

The award-winning company discusses their shows and process – in Australia and touring around the globe.

Tues 1/20 4:30-5:45pm in MAC 232

Snacks and Cider will be provided

Richard Jordan Productions, UK: Lunch with the Producer

Join West End and Broadway Producer, Richard Jordan in conversation with Michole Biancosino, Associate Professor of Theatre, for a candid chat about making work around the world.

Thur 1/22 12-1:30 Lunch with Students

ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU: work in progress showing

Attend a showing of the company's newest eco-Shakespeare piece. This is an immersive, interactive theatre piece taking place in and around Wright Theatre. Fill ou the form to attend one of the 8 showings.

Wed 1/28 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 8pm

Thur 1/29 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 8pm

Strictly by reservation only.

Go to this FORM to reserve your spot!

Questions?

Contact mbiancosino @ middlebury.edu to get more information on the project

This program is generously sponsored by the Chocolate Milkshake Fund, The Department of English, and the Department of Theatre.

Co-sponsorship by Middlebury Performing Arts Council, Climate Action, and The Axinn Center for the Humanities

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