OUR MISSION

Live Action Set creates ensemble-driven performances that dissolve artistic boundaries, profoundly engage audiences, and passionately address issues of intrinsic value to our world.

OUR VISION

Live Action Set Will:

  • Establish national and international relationships through touring, collaboration, and education.
  • Be financially and organizationally sustainable.
  • Be recognized and sought out for its profound impact upon diverse audiences.
  • Invigorate Minnesota’s artistic community.
  • Act with integrity to better the world in which we live.

OUR VALUES

  • Artistic Excellence & Innovation
  • Honesty & Respect
  • Curiosity & Collaboration

WHO IS LIVE ACTION SET?

Live Action Set is led by four Artistic Directors: Noah Bremer, Megan Odell, Galen Treuer, and Vanessa Voskuil. The four Artistic Directors currently fill all of the non-artistic roles within the company, but the group is working to grow the organization with more administrative and organizationally-minded individuals to help us achieve our goals. Want to join us?

Please see the Contact page for more information about our current division of responsibilities.

It also cannot be overstated that Live Action Set would not be Live Action Set without our artistic collaborators. Please see our Projects page for a complete listing of everyone who makes this work possible.

HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR WORK?

We choose our projects and collaborators by consensus and according to what fascinates us at any given time. Artistic curiosity and intrigue is our guide. Anyone, Artistic Director or otherwise, can make a project proposal to Live Action Set and we will endlessly debate its merits, ultimately deciding how to move forward. This way of working has led to diverse projects with amazing collaborators: a site-specific production in the Southern Theater lobby with playwright Abi Basch, "Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban" with director Jon Ferguson and an incredible cast and crew, “The Percussionist” with Spaghetti Western String Co., and the building of an ice shanty with The Soap Factory.

RESIDENCIES

Live Action Set wants to share the tools we use for creation. We are available to share our knowledge with students and performing artists of all levels to help create performances through workshops and residencies that take a practical approach to collaboration. We draw upon our diverse backgrounds to offer classes in Ensemble Play Creation, Contact Improvisation, and Physical Characterization.

Participants learn to build teams and work together as an ensemble as well as learn useful tools for creating performance material while engaging and challenging their skills as artists. Communication is essential in these collaborations, and we combine models from the business world with exercises from theater, dance, and clown to maintain artistic focus and facilitate an open creative process. We actively research and implement methods of collaboration in our own work because we believe that together we are able to make work we couldn’t make alone.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RECOGNITION