Rachel Jendrzejewski, Multidisciplinary Artist, all video
(0:00) Introduction (0m 0s in the edited version)
The Stranger-Stranger Supper Series (0:30) (0m 6s)
The dance theater collaboration (2:08)
Family history project (4:14)
(5:43) The Stranger-Stranger Supper Series (1m 37s)
“Great and bizarre” (5:48) (1m 40s)
Interaction with other tables (6:58) (2m 52s)
Serious discussion (7:36) (3m 30s)
The third dinner (8:18) (4m 10s)
What came of it (8:48) (4m 41s)
(10:05) Audience participation
A wide range of reactions (10:26)
Questions of identity (11:05)
(12:39) Performance as art (5m 57s)
“The performance of everyday life” (14:11) (6m 48s)
Performing art as an exploration of the self (14:23) (7m 30s)
Having real conversations (15:30) (8m 31s)
Changing the rules for social interaction (16:23) (9m 24s)
Questioning social norms (17:12) (10m 12s)
(17:31) The audience
“The partial experience” (18:14)
Unusual interactions (19:04)
Taking on roles (21:51)
Steered by the collective (22:24)
(23:04) Enhancing the sound
A thought for the future (23:12)
Suited to an intimate environment (23:29)
Another performative layer (23:36)
Taking away the ambiguity between performer/audience member (23:55)
(24:43) Choosing the restaurants
Scoping out possibilities (25:30)
Helping out the ones in need (27:21)
(28:16) How does the theater aspect change things? (10m 29s)
A liberating experience (31:17) (10m 36s)
Tailoring the roles (32:07) (11m 14s)
The most valuable thing (32:47) (12m 5s)
(33:59) The ambiguity of theater (12m 33s)
Different ways to participate (36:06) (13m 4s)
Shared experience (37:08) (13m 30s)
“Who are you really?” (37:23) (13m 47s)
(39:05) Constructing the roles (12m 33s)
Realistic personas (39:14) (14m 37s)
Different walks of life (39:26)
Giving the actors room to breathe (40:06) (15m 11s)
(43:30 Places to take this (17m 32s)
Where to go next (44:10)
A time-intensive process (44:43)
Successful on a lot of levels (45:21) (17m 37s)
Something to revisit (45:33) (17m 47s)
Applications for a study of the food system (45:46) (18m 1s)
Avoiding stereotypes (47:35)
Giving lots of specific detail (47:48)
Playing with sexual orientation (48:20)
(50:31) Designing for different levels of participation
Engaging at different levels (51:01)
A very difficult event to explain (51:25)
(52:17) Theater that is not exactly theater
A place of investigating the form (53:54)
A fuzzy line (54:21)
Interacting with other people in a more meaningful way (54:32)
More funding available (54:40)
(56:30) The place of theater artists in society (19m 7s)
A big question constantly being asked (57:30)
“Showing a mirror to society” (57:36) (19m 10s)
A shared experience (58:01) (19m 31s)
Raise questions (58:27) (19m 56s)
Expanding minds (58:34) (20m 4s)
Creating a space for meditation (58:50) (20m 10s)
