Theatre. Dance. Live Music. Good food. Good drink. Great stories. Belly laughs.
Music
This Ensemble LOVES music. Especially live music. SUSTAINED WINDS has blues and brass band jazz and more. We're lucky enough to live in a place that has some of the best roots music on the planet.
Sustained Winds's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Hometown:
Lafayette,La
Zodiac Sign:
Aries
Sustained Winds's Companies
162 Grand Ave Lafayette, La US 70503
Acting Up (in Acadiana) Lafayette, La US
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SUSTAINED WINDS. Accepted into The New York International Fringe Festival 2007.
Katrina: Before, During, After. Episodes of an American tragedy mixed with satire and in your face *%#! Multi-disciplined Louisiana artists expose, criticize, and embrace their hurricane culture. Captures the isolation and the joie de vie. Now. Evacuate or Celebrate?
Beginning July 27th, tickets can be purchased with a credit card by phone- (212)279-4488 or 1-888-FringeNYC.
Or by visiting the website- just click bellow:
Who I'd like to meet:
Other artists interested in multi-disciplined collaboration and in art as a catalyst for change. People who realize that Katrina wasn't just a wake up call to the Gulf South but to the entire country. Individuals who are engaged with the world and fearlessly confront it, yet still celebrate life with abandon.
If you are interested in supporting our trip to NYC please contact us here or make checks payable to:
Acting Up
162 Grand Ave
Lafayette,La 70503
Photos from our Fundraiser by Clare Martin, Paige Krause, and Micheal Fedor
Congrats on the review. You all deserve all of the success you can achieve. The reviewer saw the show for what it is. I wish you all the best. Safe travels to you all on the way back toward the bayou.
"The tragedy in life is not when things are broken; the tragedy is when they are not put back together again." The members of Acting Up have brought together artists from Gulf Coast Louisiana to help put some of the pieces back together after Katrina, and their efforts are not only highly commendable, they are remarkably powerful, inspired, and truly innovative.
Sustained Winds is the product of a very interesting creative process described in the program that I'll save for your visit; suffice to say that there are a lot of hands in this and lots of layers methodically woven and perfectly executed. This multimedia, multi-discipline production makes the very best of theatre as a form and even as function in helping us to remember, rouse, and heal. It is broken into a dozen or so scenes, dances, rants, and songs—oftentimes in various combinations. There's a killer soundtrack and some authentic sound bites and video clips as well. The experience I had was undoubtedly one I could only have in the theatre.
When you walk in there is a lot of action going on—you have a reporter doing interviews, a Mardi Gras girl throwing beads, and there's some great jazz drifting over everything. The mood was somewhat festive and busy. But that changes as the play starts. Of course things you're going to see in the production are sad and even infuriating, but these things are very nicely offset with dance, song, and comedy. It's a well-oiled wild ride that's structured like a performance collage. At one point, the players pull the audience closer to them. At the end, we all danced.
Director Amy Waguespack fills the room with her vision for this show. She has an excellent sense of pacing and timing. The blending of the layers is very well coordinated and yet she leaves some things open to the unexpected. The set is si
good luck this weekend...may your winds sustain long after the crowds are gone! (perhaps it was your wind the made them leave in the first place)...i wish i could go see it but i have things ever night....ppppttttttt!!!
