SEEKING YOUNG/EMERGING ARTISTS in OKc!
Emergentheatre: Youth JAM SESH is a process-based performance project that takes place over 4 days
featured in the Theatre Crude Fringe Festival 2022 Line Up
Oklahoma City, September 17-18, 2022
Interested in performance + improvisation + social justice + community building? Apply below!
ABOUT THE PROJECT
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Folks who will LOVE working on this project are:
+ excited by experimental performance
+ curious about improvisation
+ interested or experienced in social justice organizing and movement
+ passionate about relationship building
+ ready to try something new
+ encouraged to make connections to the art-professional network of Theatre Crude
+ a young or emerging artist (by young we mean under the age of 25; by emerging we expand our age parameters to include anyone who has had little to no artistic exposure or opportunity)Emergentheatre: Youth JAM SESH is co-created by theatremakers Eli Bradley and Justice von Maur. You can read more about Eli and Justice at the bottom of the page.
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Emergentheatre: Youth JAM SESH will consist of 4 Practice Sessions (equivalent to rehearsals!) and 2 performances in the Theatre Crude Fringe Festival.
Practice Sessions are an in-person practical mixture of devised performance, improvisation, and community building exercises. Performances will be improvisational.
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All Theatre Crude performances, including JAM SESH, will take place at Jewel Box Theatre.
Practice Session locations will be shared privately, and will include outdoor locations.
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The entirety of Emergentheatre: Youth JAM SESH will take place over a 4 day period, from September 15-18, 2022. Participants will need to commit to all specific calls below:
Practice Sessions (~10hr)
Thurs., 9/15, 5:30-7:30pm
Fri., 9/16, 5:30-8:30pm
Sat., 9/17, 10am-1pm
Sun., 9/18, 2pm-4pmPerformances (~45m each)
Sat., 9/17 @ 2:30pm
Sun., 9/18 @ 5:30pm -
“We must practice the world we want to live in.” - adrienne maree brown
Methodology Note:
Emergentheatre (ET), theorized by Justice von Maur, is a black feminist framework for systems change that has surfaced into the public sphere by way of the South Eastern Theatre Conference (SETC) (2020, 2021), Alternate ROOTS (2021, 2022), the Allied Media Conference (2022), and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) (2022). ET posits improvisation, embodiment, and form as three practical entry points into black feminist systems shaping through relationship to self, to one another, and to the world around us.
AUDITION APPLICATION
ACCEPTED ON A ROLLING BASIS UNTIL SEPT. 12, 2022
MEET THE CO-CREATORS
Justice von Maur (any pronouns) is a black feminist theatremaker, facilitator, and theorist from Nassau, Bahamas. OKCers might know Justice through her work with The Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (2018-2020) or her performance in the inaugural Theatre Crude Fringe Festival (2019). At Lyric, Justice stage managed two seasons for The Thelma Gaylord Academy (working with students aged 7-18), was the Program Coordinator for two touring cycles of Musical Interactive, choreographed The Rokademy Experiment, and was the Young Performers Supervisor for Lyric’s acclaimed annual production of A Christmas Carol. Justice also directed Cimarron Opera Company’s 2019-20 scholastic tour and its intergenerational production of A Gift of Song (2019). Justice has completed graduate coursework in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities at UT Austin. Today, Justice is the Director of Community Outreach at The Savannah Children's Theatre and also facilitates cultural programming for emerging artists at Alternate ROOTS, a radical arts non-profit.
Eli Bradley (they/them) is an intergenerational theatermaker, tea enthusiast, and general social gadfly from Boulder, CO.
Eli toured with the Lyric Theater of Oklahoma Interactive Tour and performed in Lyric's TYA production of The Cat in the Hat. Since leaving Oklahoma they have produced High School Playwriting Contests through the DC Public Library system and partnered with #Enough, an international coalition of theaters promoting youth art which confronts American Gun Culture.
Eli is returning to Theatre Crude for their third time after directing 3/4's Empty in 2019 and The Hat Cart in 2021. Outside of fringe festivals and playwriting, Eli studies Theatre & Performance Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
