Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
ABCNews.com
Here is a new video feature that posted to ABCNews.com this week:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4921222
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4921222
Friday, February 8, 2008
100 NY shows
I'm amazed that an author decided to mention our 100th show in Playbill.com's website. That must be the work of Bridgette and Adam...I LOVE WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR US!!!
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/114420.html
Off-Broadway's Fuerzabruta Hits 100 at Daryl Roth Theatre Jan. 18
By Ernio Hernandez
18 Jan 2008
Off-Broadway's new theatrical spectacle, Fuerzabruta (Brute Force), plays its 100th performance Jan. 18.
The show began performances Oct. 11 and opened Oct. 24 at the former home of De La Guarda, the Daryl Roth Theatre. The previously extended run plays through June 29. The 10:30 PM performance will mark the production's 100th show.
De La Guarda's Diqui James (co-founder/co-creator) and Gaby Kerpel (composer/musical director) again "push the boundaries of theatrical creativity, motivation and innovation," according to a press statement. Fuerzabruta (Brute Force) "breaks free from the confines of spoken language and theatrical convention [where] both performers and audience are immersed in an environment that floods the senses, evoking pure visceral emotion in a place where individual imagination soars."
Featured performers include Hallie Bulleit, Freddy Bosche, Daniel Case, Michael Hollick, Joshua Kobak, Gwyneth Larsen, Tamara Levinson, Rose Mallare, Brooke Miyasaki, Jon Morris, Jason Novak, Marlyn Ortiz and Kepani Salgado-Ramos.
Among visuals to be expected: "A man runs full throttle through a series of moving walls, individuals race to connect from opposite sides of a whirling sail and performers frolic and interact in a watery world suspended just above the audience."
Fans who remember De La Guarda can plan to enjoy a similar, yet completely new experience as the action is set to "percussive beats, engaging melodies and hypnotic ambient music."
Fuerzabruta first played in Buenos Aires in 2005 and has also performed in Lisbon, London, Buenos Aires and Bogota with runs in Berlin and Hamburg to follow.
Concert Productions International (CPI), Ozono Productions and David Binder Productions produce the New York run.
Tickets to Fuerzabruta (Brute Force) at the Daryl Roth Theatre, 20 Union Square East (at 15th Street), can be purchased by calling (212) 239-6200 or at the box office. A limited number of $25 (cash-only) rush tickets will be made available two hours prior to curtain. For more information visit fuerzabrutanyc.com.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/114420.html
Off-Broadway's Fuerzabruta Hits 100 at Daryl Roth Theatre Jan. 18
By Ernio Hernandez
18 Jan 2008
Off-Broadway's new theatrical spectacle, Fuerzabruta (Brute Force), plays its 100th performance Jan. 18.
The show began performances Oct. 11 and opened Oct. 24 at the former home of De La Guarda, the Daryl Roth Theatre. The previously extended run plays through June 29. The 10:30 PM performance will mark the production's 100th show.
De La Guarda's Diqui James (co-founder/co-creator) and Gaby Kerpel (composer/musical director) again "push the boundaries of theatrical creativity, motivation and innovation," according to a press statement. Fuerzabruta (Brute Force) "breaks free from the confines of spoken language and theatrical convention [where] both performers and audience are immersed in an environment that floods the senses, evoking pure visceral emotion in a place where individual imagination soars."
Featured performers include Hallie Bulleit, Freddy Bosche, Daniel Case, Michael Hollick, Joshua Kobak, Gwyneth Larsen, Tamara Levinson, Rose Mallare, Brooke Miyasaki, Jon Morris, Jason Novak, Marlyn Ortiz and Kepani Salgado-Ramos.
Among visuals to be expected: "A man runs full throttle through a series of moving walls, individuals race to connect from opposite sides of a whirling sail and performers frolic and interact in a watery world suspended just above the audience."
Fans who remember De La Guarda can plan to enjoy a similar, yet completely new experience as the action is set to "percussive beats, engaging melodies and hypnotic ambient music."
Fuerzabruta first played in Buenos Aires in 2005 and has also performed in Lisbon, London, Buenos Aires and Bogota with runs in Berlin and Hamburg to follow.
Concert Productions International (CPI), Ozono Productions and David Binder Productions produce the New York run.
Tickets to Fuerzabruta (Brute Force) at the Daryl Roth Theatre, 20 Union Square East (at 15th Street), can be purchased by calling (212) 239-6200 or at the box office. A limited number of $25 (cash-only) rush tickets will be made available two hours prior to curtain. For more information visit fuerzabrutanyc.com.
Good ingredients make a great cake*
Ingredients:
- Argentine images turned into reality and tested all around the world
- A crew that loves theatrical spectacles
- Climbers that chuckle in the face of fear
- 13 thrill seeking actors with way too much energy
Preheat:
8 hours of productive sleeping
Mix:
2 hours of organizing the apartment
45 minutes of hang time with Veronica at Sephora and Chipolte's
20 minutes of strategizing at the Genius Bar
20 minutes drooling over MacBook Air's
10 minutes of wolfing down a Fat Witch caramel brownie
1 hour of constructive criticism towards a better year
45 minutes of more constructive criticism for a better hour
45 minutes of laughter during a led but not followed warm-up
15 minutes of 80's dance music just before places
Bake for 1 hour in a black box with lights, sound, big sets, fun props, an astute crew and sick-ass performers.
Top it with:
1 dancing Cloud
1 spritely puppy named Capo
1 David Binder
1 Orlando Bloom
1 Neil Patrick Harris
1 dozen celebrity snowboarders still amped from the Burton expo in Union Square
300 anonymous smiling faces that voluntarily dance with you in the rain
Still high and wet from the performance, I made my way downstairs. An audience member and his friend asked me questions at the door of the women's dressing room, "Where is this from? Where is the cast from?" His friend said with an English accent, "...You made me feel like a kid again." Orlando Bloom told me this, and I couldn't help but swoon into the dressing room shortly after.
Chase it with a JD and Coke, a toast with friends, a picture with audience members and reminisce the moments with a very happy crew.
*The beauty of theater and the festivities around cake: it only happens once and isn't easily replicated. If you are there in the moment, savor it. There is an awesome feeling in knowing you are a fine ingredient of the most grandiose cake.
Fuerzabruta 8 PM performance on Thursday, February 7, 2008.
Corridor - Jason
Personas - Hallie, Mike, Rose and Jon
TV - Brooke and Josh
Cortinas - Gwyn and Marlyn
Moving Cortinas - Mike, Kapani, Josh and Hallie
Murga - Rose, Mike, Brooke, Josh and Kapani
Vela - Tamara and Freddy
Scenario Alto - Mike
Murga Finale - Gwyn, Mike, Rose, Jon, Josh, Freddy
DJ - Mike
Mylar - Brooke, Marlyn, Tamara, Kapani
Corridor Finale - Hallie, Jon and Jason
- Argentine images turned into reality and tested all around the world
- A crew that loves theatrical spectacles
- Climbers that chuckle in the face of fear
- 13 thrill seeking actors with way too much energy
Preheat:
8 hours of productive sleeping
Mix:
2 hours of organizing the apartment
45 minutes of hang time with Veronica at Sephora and Chipolte's
20 minutes of strategizing at the Genius Bar
20 minutes drooling over MacBook Air's
10 minutes of wolfing down a Fat Witch caramel brownie
1 hour of constructive criticism towards a better year
45 minutes of more constructive criticism for a better hour
45 minutes of laughter during a led but not followed warm-up
15 minutes of 80's dance music just before places
Bake for 1 hour in a black box with lights, sound, big sets, fun props, an astute crew and sick-ass performers.
Top it with:
1 dancing Cloud
1 spritely puppy named Capo
1 David Binder
1 Orlando Bloom
1 Neil Patrick Harris
1 dozen celebrity snowboarders still amped from the Burton expo in Union Square
300 anonymous smiling faces that voluntarily dance with you in the rain
Still high and wet from the performance, I made my way downstairs. An audience member and his friend asked me questions at the door of the women's dressing room, "Where is this from? Where is the cast from?" His friend said with an English accent, "...You made me feel like a kid again." Orlando Bloom told me this, and I couldn't help but swoon into the dressing room shortly after.
Chase it with a JD and Coke, a toast with friends, a picture with audience members and reminisce the moments with a very happy crew.
*The beauty of theater and the festivities around cake: it only happens once and isn't easily replicated. If you are there in the moment, savor it. There is an awesome feeling in knowing you are a fine ingredient of the most grandiose cake.
Fuerzabruta 8 PM performance on Thursday, February 7, 2008.
Corridor - Jason
Personas - Hallie, Mike, Rose and Jon
TV - Brooke and Josh
Cortinas - Gwyn and Marlyn
Moving Cortinas - Mike, Kapani, Josh and Hallie
Murga - Rose, Mike, Brooke, Josh and Kapani
Vela - Tamara and Freddy
Scenario Alto - Mike
Murga Finale - Gwyn, Mike, Rose, Jon, Josh, Freddy
DJ - Mike
Mylar - Brooke, Marlyn, Tamara, Kapani
Corridor Finale - Hallie, Jon and Jason
Monday, February 4, 2008
My friends are HOT! Broadway.com came back for more...
Brookie, Gwyn, Mikey, Jon and Daniel are even hotter in person. Everything they say is true. My favorite line, "Its really the crew's show. We just get to play and the they have to clean it up!" said Jon.
http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=557076
http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=557076
Vogue tried to make us classy
Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess were in our theater for a Vogue photo shoot for fashion designer Phillip Lim. Jon showed them what to do. Haven't seen the shot in the magazine yet, but its for sale on magazine stands.
http://www.style.com/vogue/voguediaries/012208
http://www.style.com/vogue/voguediaries/012208
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Fuerzabruta Behind the Scenes #1
Thanks to Jason Novak, movie maker and performer, for putting together this very informative clip of the technical geniuses of our show.
click this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXr3FLklbIg
click this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXr3FLklbIg
I work on a playground
Last night, I finally watched the show. I wanted to watch it as a true audience member, since I know everything that happens next and that I also know everyone in the cast and crew pretty well too. I paid attention to how the audience was reacting and jotted down alot of what they said, the comments they would make to each other, the reactions on their faces, how they moved throughout the space, and how they danced. I wondered during certain moments why would they laugh, scream, or even kiss each other.
It didn't take the audience long to feel suspended from reality. I sort of forgot that they're going through a journey as they watch the show unfold, but I soon realized that they were already captured in the moments of Fuerzabruta when Daniel was walking on the treadmill...the audience last night was with him on each and every step he took. There was a woman behind me who told her other friends, "I saw a different guy last time...I can't believe they switch around roles...wow, this guy is really good." Other people were talking, some people where chuckling, some people would look at their friends with their eyebrows raised. Then the corridor was shot and fell dead. I always wondered why people would laugh or cheer when he's dead, and last night, I believed they saw themselves with Daniel, or as Daniel, the corridor. And maybe they wanted to run away or run to something in their own lives. Perhaps the emotions proceeding the gun shot resulted in a sense of relief which the audience communicated through raised eyebrows, screams, laughter...and some didn't even know what to do with their body and became as stiff as a board and remained speechless.
Personas started happening and the woman behind me said, "There's the guy who did it last time," It was Josh. "He was really good too." I watched all four of you fall off the back end. To me, you each of had your own mini monologue that related to your own personal lives. I put that story there because I know all four of you. So in a way, you too are like the corridor, each of you with history, each of you with a future...and in the present, you are here now, dealing with walking, the crowd, and finding an end to your own personal madness and falling dead off the back end...and then deciding to get up again. You're all strangers, and you all eventually leave. Daniel remains on his journey, busting through doors, running at top speed and got shot...AGAIN. But this time, he remained standing.
For me, this was the most puzzling moment in the show. Why are you still standing? What are you thinking about? What's your motivation and intentions for just standing there "this time"? Why did Diqui direct the corridors to just stand at this moment? I have the luxury of asking Daniel after the show, or I can even call or email him today or tomorrow and ask him questions or any of you about that exact moment. Shit, I can even call Diqui if I feel like it and ask the creator right now if I wanted to. I'm lucky, we're lucky that we can do that, but that's not the point.
I didn't realize until this morning what that moment meant for me. To put it simply, we're not just actors here. I don't even see us actors in a theater. We are Rose dealing with living in NYC again, Freddy having a court date in LA next week, Josh saying goodbye to Michelle for a few months, and Gwyn turning the world into a greener place. We can get through anything, through extreme weather conditions, through faulty doors, with weird clown costumes, through loud gunshots, through water, through mid air, with heart aches, a new puppy, a new love, a new apartment, with language barriers, through bad times and good ones too in any country on any given day, even on holidays. Damn it, we are fucking bad ass people!!!
As I'm watching the rest of the show, I didn't want to forget what the audience is going through. I was going through my journey, maybe with more details defined because I'm on this journey with you every day. But they are here for the first time because they want to be here, and paid a lot of money to be here, because they want to participate in this hour long journey with us. And some come back with their friends and others with their cameras. They are reacting to how we are feeling when we walk, run, swim, dance. They were so happy to receive the invitation...and we're here to basically forget our lives for an hour, and to hopefully give them an amazing hour of their week.
The audience gets to witness us fall in love (TV), they watch how we start and end our day (corridor). They watch how we get excited about each other (cortinas) and how we party with each other (murga). They see us when we need to fight for survival (Vela) and watch us as we grow up to be women (mylar). In the end, we're a team, a small community of actors, climbers and crew that are on this journey together and help each other when we fall (corridor final).
The feeling I have when I bow with this group is tremendous. It really is an honor to be a part of this talented group of once strangers, and now life long friends.
As the cast and crew danced with the audience, you can see how elated the audience enjoyed receiving the invitation to dance, which was very sublte. And more over, those that took the invitation in the center really enjoyed getting wet. When the cast and the crew left the stage, the music kept playing while the audience kept dancing. Those that did stay, danced a tango, exchanged contact information and took pictures with each other and of the set.
When I went downstairs, reality sort of sunk in again. I was astonished about the mental journey I had just been on. It was kind of weird saying hello to Zack, Jon, Amy and Freddy because I couldn't believe this was my job. We, as a team, get to make audiences feel emotions that they might not normally arrive to on their own...and in my case, my feelings were indescribable. The feelings I had were awesome. When I watched how people react to the cast with laughter and dance, I'm just truly, truly amazed with the powers we as humans can have to brighten the day of complete strangers.
It didn't take the audience long to feel suspended from reality. I sort of forgot that they're going through a journey as they watch the show unfold, but I soon realized that they were already captured in the moments of Fuerzabruta when Daniel was walking on the treadmill...the audience last night was with him on each and every step he took. There was a woman behind me who told her other friends, "I saw a different guy last time...I can't believe they switch around roles...wow, this guy is really good." Other people were talking, some people where chuckling, some people would look at their friends with their eyebrows raised. Then the corridor was shot and fell dead. I always wondered why people would laugh or cheer when he's dead, and last night, I believed they saw themselves with Daniel, or as Daniel, the corridor. And maybe they wanted to run away or run to something in their own lives. Perhaps the emotions proceeding the gun shot resulted in a sense of relief which the audience communicated through raised eyebrows, screams, laughter...and some didn't even know what to do with their body and became as stiff as a board and remained speechless.
Personas started happening and the woman behind me said, "There's the guy who did it last time," It was Josh. "He was really good too." I watched all four of you fall off the back end. To me, you each of had your own mini monologue that related to your own personal lives. I put that story there because I know all four of you. So in a way, you too are like the corridor, each of you with history, each of you with a future...and in the present, you are here now, dealing with walking, the crowd, and finding an end to your own personal madness and falling dead off the back end...and then deciding to get up again. You're all strangers, and you all eventually leave. Daniel remains on his journey, busting through doors, running at top speed and got shot...AGAIN. But this time, he remained standing.
For me, this was the most puzzling moment in the show. Why are you still standing? What are you thinking about? What's your motivation and intentions for just standing there "this time"? Why did Diqui direct the corridors to just stand at this moment? I have the luxury of asking Daniel after the show, or I can even call or email him today or tomorrow and ask him questions or any of you about that exact moment. Shit, I can even call Diqui if I feel like it and ask the creator right now if I wanted to. I'm lucky, we're lucky that we can do that, but that's not the point.
I didn't realize until this morning what that moment meant for me. To put it simply, we're not just actors here. I don't even see us actors in a theater. We are Rose dealing with living in NYC again, Freddy having a court date in LA next week, Josh saying goodbye to Michelle for a few months, and Gwyn turning the world into a greener place. We can get through anything, through extreme weather conditions, through faulty doors, with weird clown costumes, through loud gunshots, through water, through mid air, with heart aches, a new puppy, a new love, a new apartment, with language barriers, through bad times and good ones too in any country on any given day, even on holidays. Damn it, we are fucking bad ass people!!!
As I'm watching the rest of the show, I didn't want to forget what the audience is going through. I was going through my journey, maybe with more details defined because I'm on this journey with you every day. But they are here for the first time because they want to be here, and paid a lot of money to be here, because they want to participate in this hour long journey with us. And some come back with their friends and others with their cameras. They are reacting to how we are feeling when we walk, run, swim, dance. They were so happy to receive the invitation...and we're here to basically forget our lives for an hour, and to hopefully give them an amazing hour of their week.
The audience gets to witness us fall in love (TV), they watch how we start and end our day (corridor). They watch how we get excited about each other (cortinas) and how we party with each other (murga). They see us when we need to fight for survival (Vela) and watch us as we grow up to be women (mylar). In the end, we're a team, a small community of actors, climbers and crew that are on this journey together and help each other when we fall (corridor final).
The feeling I have when I bow with this group is tremendous. It really is an honor to be a part of this talented group of once strangers, and now life long friends.
As the cast and crew danced with the audience, you can see how elated the audience enjoyed receiving the invitation to dance, which was very sublte. And more over, those that took the invitation in the center really enjoyed getting wet. When the cast and the crew left the stage, the music kept playing while the audience kept dancing. Those that did stay, danced a tango, exchanged contact information and took pictures with each other and of the set.
When I went downstairs, reality sort of sunk in again. I was astonished about the mental journey I had just been on. It was kind of weird saying hello to Zack, Jon, Amy and Freddy because I couldn't believe this was my job. We, as a team, get to make audiences feel emotions that they might not normally arrive to on their own...and in my case, my feelings were indescribable. The feelings I had were awesome. When I watched how people react to the cast with laughter and dance, I'm just truly, truly amazed with the powers we as humans can have to brighten the day of complete strangers.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
We're #3 of the 10 best theater shows according to TIME Magazine
A little freaked out by it, that I'm part of this amazing company that's getting all kinds of recognition. WOW! I guess the blood, sweat and tears are really paying off. And to think I love everyone I work with...I'm completely blissed out!!!
The 10 Best Theater Shows
Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 By RICHARD ZOGLIN
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1694450,00.html
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/113556.html
#1
August: Osage County
An ex-professor's suicide is the impetus for a ferocious family get-together in this horribly named but miraculous new play by Tracy Letts.
#2 | Journey's End
R.C. Sherriff's WW I play, beautifully revived on Broadway, is a harrowing portrait of men who face war's ordinariness and incomprehensibility.
#3 | Fuerzabruta
Another wordless, acrobatic, gloriously mindless performance spectacle from the De La Guarda folks.
#4 | The Overwhelming
An import from Britain, J.T. Rogers' Rwandan-massacre story is important without being dutiful.
#5 | Wooster Group's Hamlet
The tragedy re-enacted in front of a filmed version of the 1964 Richard Burton staging. Oddly watchable.
#6 | Pygmalion
Claire Danes' Broadway debut was spirited, charming and emotionally compelling. One sharp Shaw.
#7 | Grease
Even with reality-TV stars, a stylish, happy, underappreciated revival.
#8 | The Farnsworth Invention
Aaron Sorkin's account of the battle between two TV pioneers is, like his TV shows, slick, talky, entertaining.
#9 | Eurydice
The Orpheus myth retold with admirable freshness from the point of view of his bride, by Sarah Ruhl.
#10 | Intimate Exchanges
An all-but-unproducible play cycle by Alan Ayckbourn--one premise, 16 permutations--smashingly staged.
The 10 Best Theater Shows
Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 By RICHARD ZOGLIN
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1694450,00.html
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/113556.html
#1
August: Osage County
An ex-professor's suicide is the impetus for a ferocious family get-together in this horribly named but miraculous new play by Tracy Letts.
#2 | Journey's End
R.C. Sherriff's WW I play, beautifully revived on Broadway, is a harrowing portrait of men who face war's ordinariness and incomprehensibility.
#3 | Fuerzabruta
Another wordless, acrobatic, gloriously mindless performance spectacle from the De La Guarda folks.
#4 | The Overwhelming
An import from Britain, J.T. Rogers' Rwandan-massacre story is important without being dutiful.
#5 | Wooster Group's Hamlet
The tragedy re-enacted in front of a filmed version of the 1964 Richard Burton staging. Oddly watchable.
#6 | Pygmalion
Claire Danes' Broadway debut was spirited, charming and emotionally compelling. One sharp Shaw.
#7 | Grease
Even with reality-TV stars, a stylish, happy, underappreciated revival.
#8 | The Farnsworth Invention
Aaron Sorkin's account of the battle between two TV pioneers is, like his TV shows, slick, talky, entertaining.
#9 | Eurydice
The Orpheus myth retold with admirable freshness from the point of view of his bride, by Sarah Ruhl.
#10 | Intimate Exchanges
An all-but-unproducible play cycle by Alan Ayckbourn--one premise, 16 permutations--smashingly staged.
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