Gas & Electric Arts is a multi-faceted organization that creates stage performances, educational programs and community events that respond to the currents of our time.
COMPANY PROGRAMS
Public Works: We are committed to corporeal,visual, vocal and spatial investigations on stage, resulting in a rigorous physical performance style that simultaneously embraces richly textured language--the linguistic poetry of written scripts that reflect the non-linearity of humanity-- and the choreographic possibilities of a body in space, thus giving density, desire, meaning and matter to the air on stage. We bridge the gap between ensemble-devised physical theatre and text-based approaches, creating a unique hybrid performance style where text and the physical, choreographed body meet, each complementing, expanding, challenging and liberating the possibilities of the other, together forging compelling imagistic, emotionally and intellectually-relevant theatrical experiences.
Community WORKS: We train youth and adults alike in interactive Theatre of the Oppressed-based techniques and related process-based strategies for personal and group transformation, enabling participants to animate real stories through the fiction of theatre, and collectively rehearse possibilities for taking action and making change in their lives.