Free•dom – a solo of many people @ The Third Annual United Solo Festival in New York City
The Third Annual United Solo Festival is happening @ the ROW in the heart of the New York City theatre district on 42nd St. Through the following 6‑week period, the festival will offer 100 productions ranging from 2 up to 5 different shows per day, including the innovative full-length solo work of the performer, actress and director Andressa Furletti:
Free•dom – a solo of many people
Her piece combines physical theater with cutting-edge multimedia projections to explore creativity and other questions with humor, grace and passion.
free•dom - a solo of many people
"The character is creativity itself," says Andressa, who moved from Brazil to New York five years ago and serves as artistic director of Group .BR, New York's only Brazilian theater company, which she co-founded last spring. "All humans are creative beings, not just artists. We have all sorts of ideas all the time. Somehow as we grow up, we lose the ability to create freely. As we begin to judge our own ideas, we block them before giving them a chance."
To take this exploration to the stage, Furletti tried to break down her own creative process and the stuff that gets in her way. "There are all sorts of fears and self criticism that block ideas and don't let them run free."
Andressa trained at Stella Adler studio in New York, where she earned a conservatory degree and went on to study and collaborate with the likes of Theater Mitu, as well as multi-disciplinary artist and avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson at his Watermill International Summer Program. She's directed several short films and acted in more than a dozen plays and films, including the Brazilian feature Proibido Proibir.
Directed by Steve Cook, free•dom is a project close to Andressa's heart. Two years in the making, the work addresses those moments of resistance we all have towards receiving creative inspiration. The dynamic play speaks not only to
artists, as the creative process can be a metaphor for life.
Andressa trained at Stella Adler studio in New York, where she earned a conservatory degree and went on to study and collaborate with the likes of Theater Mitu, as well as multi-disciplinary artist and avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson at his Watermill International Summer Program. She's directed several short films and acted in more than a dozen plays and films, including the Brazilian feature Proibido Proibir.
Free•dom – a solo of many people
United Solo Festival (www.unitedsolo.org)
Theater ROW - Studio Theater
410 W 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Images Andressa Furletti
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