WELCOME TO LIVE ACTION SET

Live Action Set is honored to take part in this exciting three-way collaboration that will also feature the work of Ballet of the Dolls Artistic Director, Myron Johnson, and flamenco dance guru, Susana di Palma. Opening night coincides with the 95th anniversary of the infamous premiere of Stravinsky’s composition and Najinsky’s choreography – is it possible to enflame today’s audiences the same way? Vanessa Voskuil directs... For more details, please visit our Events page!

We’ve got an exciting season of shows for 2008! Brand new shows: The Piano Tuner (an original ensemble-created work) at the Southern Theater in April, and The Rite of Spring (a collaboration with Ballet of the Dolls and Susana di Palma) at the Ritz Theater in May. We will also rework and remount Desiderare: desire the undesirable as part of the 2008 Minnesota Fringe Festival. For more details, please visit our Events page!

We are excited to announce that Live Action Set will appear for two weeks at the Guthrie Dowling Studio in June 2009! The Guthrie will present the premiere of My Father’s Bookshelf, a project that has been a long-time dream of Galen’s. The show explores Alzheimer’s and the associated loss of memory and cognition from a scientific and clowning perspective. We are very excited to begin thinking about projects for next year and thank the Guthrie for giving us a place to do it. We are still figuring out the details… check our Events Page periodically for more information as it emerges!

We’re going to Brazil! Live Action Set is honored to have received a Travel/Study grant for the four co-Artistic Directors to finally realize our long-held dream of studying with LUME Teatro in Campinas, Brazil. Coinciding with the Carnival season, we will travel to Brazil in February 2008 for two weeks of intensives. LUME’s company members have studied with clown, butoh, dance, and theater artists from Europe, Japan, Canada, the US, and across Latin America. We can’t wait!