PRAISE
FOR SHOWS:
“As entertaining as is humanly possible.”
Glass Contraption audience member
“…charming…”
....“delightful”
“performed with skill and enthusiasm”
“genuinely funny and touching…”
NYTheater.com
“a truly different kind of theater
experience...”
“poetical, theatrical and lyrical
on the one hand and controlled chaos on
the other”
Elise Long, director of Spoke the Hub/Gowanus
Arts, Brooklyn
“Although all the performers proved
superb, The Glass Contraption especially
pleased the crowd…pack[ing] such a
lightning punch that their curtain call
lasted almost as long as their performance."
Carl Blumenthal, writer for Brooklyn Daily
Eagle and founder/publisher of "Arts
Alive: A Journal of Brooklyn Culture"
“Amongst this coterie the standouts were a hilarious performance piece by a group called The Glass Contraption entitled "Animals' Heads" which combined shadow puppetry with full audience participation in a visualization and culminated in a fugue of barnyard noises and choral music…"
BroadwayWorld.com
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PRAISE
FOR TRAINING AND COMMUNITY-BASED COLLABORATIONS:
"The Glass Contraption changed me
as a person. I feel a little braver."
Teen from the 52nd Street Project
“An amazing training, which is
nurturing, empowering and thus beneficial
for performing artists of all kinds. Every
performing artist should be regularly exposed
to this kind of training throughout his/her
career.”
Media Artes company member
“A school for free and open acting…”
Media Artes company member
“I need this kind of training
which “peels” off the social
masks and defence mechanisms that we all
tend to develop over time. It is very helpful
as a means to reconnect with your own vulnerability
as an artist and (although it sounds paradoxical)
to realize just how big a generator of power
one’s own vulnerability can be (if
you have the courage to approach it and
play with it).”
Media Artes company member
“We never had theater and music
here in this particular way. You opened
a door and turned a light on inside everyone
one here. You brought out each child's hidden
talents. Your work gives value to those
talents.”
Elizabeth Moshe, The Topsy Center, South
Africa
IN
THE NEWS
Red-Nosed Life Lessons: Clowns with
a Fear Factor
view
as PDF
New York Times, 9.3.06
A Role for the Arts in Development
(PDF)
Contexts: International Affairs Journal
of Thought and Opinion
www.contextsjournal.com/issue.html |
