A Welcome Note from PEARLDAMOUR
Hello Audience!
PearlDamour here. We met Haymaker when they volunteered (volunteered!) to be a part of our last project called How to Build a Forest when we toured it to Duke — they were a part of our “breathing composition”, composed by Brendan Connelly. We loved hanging out with them in rehearsal – and in the bar of the Durham Hilton, where our team was staying, and where we first started dreaming up the idea for this exchange.
See, PearlDamour’s current project is called Milton — we are visiting 5 towns named Milton in order to make a performance, and one of “our” Miltons is North Carolina about an hour from Durham. What began as a convo about, “Hey maybe we can crash on your couch during some of our trips” turned into this in-depth exchange, thanks to that Awesome Instigating Organization called the Network of Ensemble Theaters.
Over the next few days, PearlDamour and Haymaker will be back and forth between Milton and Durham while we think, read and chew on questions about audience (hello!), the unique needs of urban and rural art scenes, disciplinary perceptual habits (thank you, Shannon Jackson) and more.
What a way to get to know each other better. Thanks NET. More dispatches soon….
Lisa and Katie
This pic is not of Lisa and Katie, but sometimes this is what Lisa and Katie feel like when they first enter a “Milton”, wide-eyed, naive….take us to your people yip yip yip….
Hello Audience 