recent projects

PERENNIAL HABIT, a video performance/meditation on the continuous flow of nature and the human need for permanence. Created and performed by ensemble members Alex Rodriguez and Ana Narrajos, Perennial Habit originally aired on WTTW - Chicago PBS as part of “Your Night Out at Home: A Virtual Experience” in partnership with Night Out in the Parks.

ongoing work

TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE is an ongoing process for us as an experimental theatre company.  We are committed to evolution and are currently working in the following ways:

• Changing our name. While it is decontextualized in America, the concept of "walkabout" has been repeatedly weaponized against Indigenous Australians by colonial forces in order to deny them rights and services.  We began the renaming process in 2019 and we will complete it by the end of 2020.

• Transforming our company structures. Our ensemble has been exploring new and decentralized models of leadership while collectively working to update our mission, vision and values. We are actively seeking new collaborators, leaders, and artists to help shape our company and our work. Let us know if you'd like to get involved!

• Identifying and making restitution for past instances of cultural appropriation, microaggressions, and other expressions of white supremacy that have been a part of our work and occurred in our spaces.  We appreciate any input from our collaborators and the broader community.

• Deepening our investigation of laboratory theater in an American context.  Along with our local, national and international collaborators and sister companies engaging in laboratory practice, we are sharing the work of exploring and addressing ways that privilege and systemic racism can impact collaboratively devised theater.

• Developing those elements of our practice which seem most vital: radical collaboration, embodied revelation, and imagining transformed futures. Check this space for further updates.