MISSION STATEMENT: Hiawatha Project creates original performances exploring specific social questions through myth, free association, and collective creation. The company connects true stories and divergent communities through impactful and amusing theatrical works.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT: Hiawatha Project explores the experiences of living in Pittsburgh, and connects these experiences to regional, national, and global social questions. In this way, we strive to illuminate human connections by discovering the universal and infinite in the ordinary and specific.
Hiawatha Project is an ensemble based, original performance company that:
- Is for and/or about the needs of a specific community and/or audience
- Interacts directly in real time with an audience
- Is inspired by and utilizing specific artists and specific spaces
- Is invigorated with real time physical feats
- Suspends belief beyond the narrative
- Confronts limited resources with limitless imagination
Learn More: http://www.hiawathaproject.org