JEAN & TERRY:
YOUR GUIDES THROUGH DARK, LIGHT, NEBULOUS
JEAN & TERRY:
YOUR GUIDES THROUGH DARK, LIGHT, AND NEBULOUS
FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA. November 2016. Photo by Plate3.
FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA. November 2016. Photo by Plate3.
Sculptures by Andrew Molleur
Jean & Terry development @ FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA. 2015.
We are perceivers. We are an awareness. We are not objects. We have no solidity. We are boundless. The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on Earth convenient.
– Don Juan Matus
in Carlos Castaneda's Tales of Power
When the mundanity of everyday life crashes into psychic phenomena it helps to have a guide.
Jean & Terry are a housewife and her spirit guide. They are alter egos for a neurotic choreographer and her zen-ed out collaborator, a pair of mountains, and a team of gods who smile from above. They are me and they are you.
In their new experimental play and self-described form of psychic activism, choreographers and performing artists Melissa Krodman and Kelly Bond peer with a curious and open third eye into ideas of the Universal Consciousness. The performers stage their attempts at seeking one-ness, achieving telepathy, elevating our collective vibrational frequencies, and acknowledging the impossibility of it all. Set against a journey across the astral plane, Jean & Terry asks us to consider what we are made of and what, if anything, separates us.
Of thought grew a mountain.
And this mountain grew a man.
Man began to climb the mountain.
And the mountain ate the man.
– Terry
direction and choreography
Kelly Bond & Mel Krodman
development and performance
Kelly Bond, Mel Krodman,
Jaime Maseda & Mark McCloughan
with special thanks to Megan Bridge
original music composition
Greg Svitil & Chris Sannino
video design
Ilan Bachrach
lighting design
Maria Shaplin
sound design
Chris Sannino
Run time: 60 minutes
Premiere:
FringeArts; Philadelphia, PA, November 2016
Residencies:
thefidget space; Philadelphia, PA; 2014-15
The Work Room; Atlanta, GA; November 2015
Sawyer Farm Artist Residency; Worthington, MA; October 2014
Breaking Ground Series, Theater Emory and The Lucky Penny; Atlanta, GA; June 2014
University of North Carolina Greensboro; Greensboro, NC; March 2014
Thirdbird; Philadelphia, PA; January 2014
Works in Progress:
Pig Iron School; Philadelphia, GA; March 2016
The Work Room; Atlanta, GA; November 2015
Movement Research Open Performance; NY, NY; January 2015
Scratch Night at Fringe Arts; Philadelphia, PA; January 2015
Sawyer Farm Artist Residency; Worthington, MA; October 2014
Movement Research @ Judson Church; NY, NY; September 2014
Breaking Ground Series, Theater Emory and The Lucky Penny; Atlanta, GA; June 2014
Center for Performance Research; Brooklyn, NY; June 2014