AquaTown: a future hydrohistory
world premieres
in Urbana, Illinois
June 10-13, 2010
at the Independent Media Center
Our Mission:
We work collectively to create engaged performance art which transforms the social environment within and beyond the performance.
“The Change of State Performance Project speaks to important issues about our
local natural resources. Creative projects like Aquatown address–literally– the
ground we stand on.” -Sarah Ross, Public Arts Commissioner, Urbana Public Arts Program
“The Change of State Performance Project ensemble moved me through high
water, shaping my mind with their artful movements and sounds, yet ultimately
bending me away from complacency and toward higher ground regarding
“other people’s” floods -Diane Gere, Environmental Justice Teacher, Davenport, IA
“It really made me think.”
-Seattle audience member
Photo: Lorene Anderson
Change of State Performance Project was founded in 2005 by Andrea del Moral and K. Qilo Matzen. In 2010 we transformed from a duo to a platform for collaborating artists. We work collectively to create engaged, live performance that transforms the social environment within and beyond the performance.
Since 2003, we have made or contributed to eight dance, dance-theatre and theatre pieces, and performed these works in the Bay Area; Chicago and Urbana, Illinois; West Virginia, Atlanta, Washington State, and throughout the upper Midwest. From 2004-2008 we worked with choreographer Lisa Fay in Urbana, Illinois. Audiences have experienced our performances in living rooms, a cemetery, an opera house, a hotel, an outdoor kitchen, and many small arts spaces. Since 2006, we have been a fiscally sponsored project of
About The Members
Andrea del Moral (co-founder, current member) provides theatrical direction for CSPP. She studied at Boston University and the School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Her choreography debuted in ODC’s PILOT program (2005), and she has performed at Dance Mission, Jon Sims Center, CounterPULSE, in underground venues in Oakland and Chicago, and at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. Her work is influenced by training in Skinner Releasing Technique, theatre direction, improvisational dance and theatre, contemporary dance, clowning, and writing.
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elizaBeth Simpson (current member) provides organizational direction for CSPP. She has been doing performance art incorporating vocal composition, puppetry, fire spinning, street theater, and storytelling since 1994. She specializes in projects that engender collaboration with multiple artists, and especially with people who would not call themselves “Artists”. Having had the opportunity to study Theater of the Oppressed on multiple occasions with Augusto Boal and Story Circles with John O’Neal (Free Southern Theater), Elizabeth uses these skills to teach creative anti- oppression workshops throughout the country in academic and community settings. Recent accomplishments including a position as Activist-In-Residence at Goddard College in 2006, receipt of the Heinz von Foerster Prize in 2007, and being awarded the Here and Now grant from the Urbana Public Arts program.
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K. Qilo Matzen (co-founder, past member) Brought a technical movement background to CSPP, with a BFA in Dance from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and training in Martha Eddy’s Integrative SMTT (Somatic Movement Therapy Training). Ze both works with clients and teaches through a Somatic Movement Therapy perspective. Qilo has performed throughout North America and Europe: touring the Balkans with arts/activist collective Building Bloc, working with European director-choreographers, and locally in residency at Jon Sims Center. Currently ze works as an In-Home Health Care Personal Attendant in addition to hir Somatic Movement Therapy practice.
(ze and hir are gender neutral pronouns)
