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We started off feeling very trapped in our own – you know, Martina in the stage choreography… and me in the – the – limitations of gallery display, you know – objects in a space, and… you have no relation to the perceiver, the – the people who are experiencing the work. Yeah, I think that’s maybe where our artist minds met.

Christer Lundhal

Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with artists Christer Lundhal & Martina Seitl about shared practice and crossed disciplines.  How do we open up new possibilities in perception, and create room for ambiguity and playful slippage in roles, in context, and in life.  Do we have to go all the way to the moon – or Mars even – just to get a change in perspective?

To learn more about the work of Lundhal & Seitl you can visit their website: http://www.lundahl-seitl.com

To learn more about how you can take a one way trip to Mars, go to: http://applicants.mars-one.com

To watch a video about the so-called “overview effect” of space travel go to: https://vimeo.com/55073825

Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.”  To read more about his life and work, go here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/

3 days ago - 2

Of course, I mean, I feel very driven by – I don’t know – the essence of what I’m dreaming of. And I guess that’s what keeps us – me – keeps me going. Because I don’t know. I’m searching for something I don’t know what it is… it’s hidden.

Martina Seitl

We were very lucky to meet in Goteborg with the extremely intriguing art duo Lundahl & Seitl.

We were very lucky to meet in Goteborg with the extremely intriguing art duo Lundahl & Seitl.

I’ve always been scared of working with actors. Because, uh – that they would ask “why?” and… in dance, people just say “how?” or “like this?” or – just do it.

Gunilla Heilborn

Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Swedish choreographer and filmmaker Gunilla Heilborn about levels of commitment.  Do we always need to push it 200%?  What about we just try 80% and call it a day?  Join us as we examine our minimalist and maximalist tendencies and trace the influence of these habits and preferences on our work.

To learn more about Gunilla’s work, go to her website: http://gunillaheilborn.se/en

To learn more about Anna Halprin, go to: http://www.annahalprin.org/about_bio.html

You can learn more about Jack Smith and see clips from his famously unfinished film, Normal Love here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AWRGH8jIJY

5 days ago

Both in dance and theater, I think it’s very much – a lot of emotions, a lot of full on. And I like to turn it down a bit… I don’t like drama.

Gunilla Heilborn

We are lucky to have a chance to talk with choreographer/filmmaker Gunilla Heilborn from Stockholm.

We are lucky to have a chance to talk with choreographer/filmmaker Gunilla Heilborn from Stockholm.

This week we are podcasting from Göteborg, Sweden, where we are guests of Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival

This week we are podcasting from Göteborg, Sweden, where we are guests of Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival

The audience is so important to us, and – it’s so crucial to the work we do – and yet we don’t know them.

Pavol Liska

Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Swedish playwright and director Mattias Andersson of Backa Teater in Göteborg about local and global art.  What does it mean to have a theater and to make work in the city where you grew up, to be in dialogue with a city of intimates?  How do we make the personal public – or is it vice versa?

To check out Mattias’ work online, go to http://www.mattiasdrama.se

And to learn more about Backa Teater, in Göteborg, visit: http://www.stadsteatern.goteborg.se/backateater/

1 week ago - 1

Can we know each other in the process of performance? Can we get to know each other – and can we use that knowledge of each other, and our full potential, to create something that none of us could have created alone?

Pavol Liska

This week, we are in Göteborg, Sweden, talking with playwright/director Mattias Andersson of Backa Teater

This week, we are in Göteborg, Sweden, talking with playwright/director Mattias Andersson of Backa Teater

Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with writer, editor, and theater thinker Tom Sellar about surrender and control – physical, mental, and structural.  Join us as we clear the air – talking about artists and critics, and the whole interdependency and strangeness around that relationship.   We rely on critics to write about the work, but what do we care about really?  Do we want intelligent writing or just positive gush?  Do critics appreciate that they are just seeing one performance and it all may be going horribly wrong?  All this and even more thoughts about social practice, multi-media, durational performance, art brut, and political theater. 

To check out some of the articles in Theater magazine, go to: http://theatermagazine.org

1 week ago

I want you to be doing the same thing I’m doing because… it’s just fuckin’ theater! We’re all… we all need to be asking more of ourselves.

Pavol Liska