JEAN & TERRY:
YOUR GUIDES THROUGH DARK, LIGHT, NEBULOUS
JEAN & TERRY:
YOUR GUIDES THROUGH DARK, LIGHT, AND NEBULOUS
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