Star Alarm
New York, NY, April, 2011 – Hands Together Collective and Mud/Bone Collective present Star Alarm, written by Wind Dell Woods and directed by Jordan Dann, at the SoHo art studio of painter Eve Lateiner. This interactive, multi-arts, music-driven performance piece follows four friends – a painter, musician, poet, and actor – as they navigate their cosmic struggle: reality.
Hands Together Collective – whose previous productions include 233A Play, created with the six residents of a Brooklyn brownstone – asks their theatrical partners what kind of community or culture they would like to create in their space and then explore the agreements and negotiations around creating this culture. With Star Alarm, director Jordan Dann and writer Wind Dell Woods, in collaboration with lead artists singer-songwriter Chris Taylor and painter Eve Lateiner, along with seven performing friends, explore their personal artistic journeys through the idea and experience of neotribalism. Neotribalism or modern tribalism proposes that human beings have evolved to live in tribal society, as opposed to mass society. In Star Alarm, for the lives of four artists, tribal bond and mass culture collide, and the values of creativity and success are called into question.
Taylor selected six of his own songs to provide the “spine” for the participants to prepare autobiographical stories, from which playwright Wind Dell Woods created the script.