Fallen Swallow/Laughing Pigeon is an emerging performance and interactive arts company that seeks to explore the act of storytelling through experimentation, movement, and design. The work of Fallen Swallow is rooted in a strong physical vocabulary, rhythmic language and sounds, puppets, projections, classical and contemporary dance, and performance and anthropological theory, living in the intricate details that have the power to transform the theatrical experience.
Fallen Swallow is inspired by the hidden beauty of the everyday and the idiosyncratic tendencies of strangers. It aims to create theatre that is both audience accessible and thought provoking.
In August 2014, Fallen Swallow/Laughing Pigeon will present the New York premiere of "Coffee & Biscuit", a Technicolor, puppet-filled variation on Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" where Nora's perfect 50's world of Hoovers and Jell-O molds topples around her.
Its first piece "Alice" premiered in June 2010 as part of the BoCoCa Arts Festival in Brooklyn. Throughout the play, the audience is taken on a surreal romp through the mundane realities of the not so perfect life of Alice Marie Gomez. Alice tries to escape her family but finds herself haunted by her consciousness in the form of a man called Kitty, a boy named Josh, (who sometimes resembles a white rabbit), and the image of her young mother surrounded by daisies.
In the future, Fallen Swallow/Laughing Pigeon plans to continue producing original work, but will not limit itself to the world of performance. Fallen Swallow plans on initiating multiple community engagement art projects, creating unexpected installations throughout urban environments as a means of silently addressing what we see as the neurotic human condition and the endlessly intriguing human character. Examples of similar projects can be found on www.thisisartproject.com"; and learn more about Artistic Director, Teresa Ann Virginia at www.teresaannvirginiabayer.weebly.com .
Learn More: http://www.coffeeandbiscuit.weebly.com