7-31-10

Length: 30:18

What lessons can we learn from the Gulf Oil Spill and those residents of places like New Orleans and Louisiana that know about living in a gas town? How does one hang onto their culture and their identity when shifts occur rapidly when the priority is energy extraction and profits? Sabrina watched the rehearsal of the site specific performance piece, Loup Garou a show that was part of NACL’s Catskill Festival of New Theater last summer. “Fact: Much of our community in New Orleans has vanished. Award-winning performance innovators ArtSpot Productions and Mondo Bizarro, in collaboration with the Gulf Restoration Network, present Loup Garou a new environmental performance that uses rigorous physicality, poetry, music and visual installation to investigate the deep interconnectedness between land and culture in Louisiana.” The theater piece was performed at Apple Pond Farm a renewable energy education center and family farm in Callicoon Center, NY in the Western Sullivan County Catskills. The performance combined the specifics of the farm, with set pieces being excavated from the pasture, the planned sound score of the incredible musicians with the squawking of birds, the bahs of sheep (sharing the pasture with us), the chirping of crickets and the summer breeze blowing through the trees. Loup Garou combined the exciting elements of original text, movement based performance and the complex characterizations so fiercely embodied by solo performer Nick Slie.

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