RadixTheatre.org
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Radix Theatre Society
Description
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Radix has been producing innovative and exciting performance events since 1988. With a mandate to foster the creation and production of experimental, socially relevant, and original works of art, the company presents work in a variety of media, with a focus on interdisciplinary performance. Radix is also dedicated to an on-going investigation of collaborative models of the creative process, continuing to explore the vast potential offered by collective creation. For the most part Radix productions are staged outside of traditional venues
in an attempt to highlight the theatricality of unusual sites, and to look at ordinary spaces with a heightened perception. These site-specific performances incorporate dynamic physicality, seductive visual imagery, and provocative content, often experimenting with the audience's role within the performance. The company is currently steered by core members Andrew Laurenson and Paul Ternes, who invite artistic associates to join in the creation of new work on a project-by-project basis.
Radix has created a new production at least once every year since their inception, inspired by concepts around media culture, terrorism, quantum mechanics, and wilderness. They have performed in a busy crosswalk, an inner-city field, and under a bridge; their only performance inside a theatre featured a stage covered in fresh lawn turf. Recent productions include The Swedish Play, a meditation on desire set in the aisles of an Ikea store; audience members were supplied with portable radios, enabling them to tune in to a pre-recorded broadcast that illuminated the people and objects inside the store. Bewildered, winner of the 2001 Vancouver Sun Critic's Choice Award,
