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David Commander
- Brooklyn, NY
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David Commander posted a status"St. Ann's Warehouse presents
LABAPALOOZA!
MINI FESTIVAL OF NEW PUPPET THEATER FROM THE LAB
MAY 23-26
Come see my latest piece 'ESSEX'"
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ESSEX construction
Rehearsing ESSEX in my living room. This is the reality of working on theater in NYC. Every day that I work on my show, I have to roll everything out of my closet, set it up, rehearse, and then break it down and put it back in the closet before my…
David Commander posted an album
ESSEX construction
In my latest modern toy theater piece, ESSEX, I intend to draw a parallel between the 1819 sinking of the whaling-ship ESSEX by a sperm whale, and the dangerous backlash of overtaxing the Earth’s resources. Like the crew of the Essex, we are engaged…
David Commander posted a status"Opening night 'Oakwood Apartments' at Immediate Medium's 'Future at the End of the World' show!
http://www.immediatemedium.org/"
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Oakwood Apartments installation
My installation with Immediate Medium's 'The Future at the End of the World'.A Group Performance at the James A. Farley Post Office in NYC.
David Commander posted a status"My first 'installation' - December 10th through the 13th Post Office on 33rd street and 8th avenue, NYC. The future at the End of the World."
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The Future at the End of the World
I will be one of ten performers who have claimed an room on the abandoned level of the gigantic James Farley Post Office on 33rd street and 8th avenue in Manhattan NYC. My installation is named 'Oakwood Apartments'. CURATED BY Andrew Horwitz of…
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- Occupation
- Performer, director, writer, drawer
- Bio
- I have been a member of the New York City theater company Big Art Group for the last 12 years and toured their work through fourteen countries and dozens of venues. My own plays The Machine World Gospel and PIGGY 1.5 premiered at the 2007 Philly Fringe festival and the 2006 NYC Fringe Festival. In 2011, I have performed a short piece of mine called In Flight at the Toy Theater After Dark Festival, presented by Open Eye Figure Theater and The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. In Flight has also been performed in New York and Philadelphia.
My work is an attempt to give form to an unutterable force that spills past the boundaries of thought into a dark, confusing place without expression. The drive behind this compulsion usually deals with concepts like ‘us and them’ and the idea of living a life that is ultimately meaningless. I like to use technology, language and structure that can expand and contract to accommodate ideas that straddle the logical and the abstract. Since it is more adaptive to this environment, I often use elements of puppetry in my shows. I typically use pre-fabricated toys, such as action figures or dolls, to bring a quality to the characters that feels uncontrived and beyond my control. I tend to think that choosing the appropriate toy is a process of ‘casting’ and shouldn’t be tailor-made to my exact specifications. Relinquishing this control allows a world of surprising characteristics that is more organic and unintentional. I would like to think that I’m not fully in control of what I make. I hope to channel into images and situations the energy that is held in that most internal space; where the entirety of being is fused together.
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Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 1:20pm on November 16, 2012,
Immediate Medium said… Maybe there is a library IN the post office...
- At 4:04am on May 8, 2012,
Petr Kruselnicky aka ANTENA said… hi man/ working hardly on the new solo show after long hospitalization with my leg.... to much text for my taste.. hope to see ya sometimes.. are you planing come over EU? greetings
- At 5:04pm on January 12, 2011,
Caden Manson (Network Curator) said… - Awesome photos! Can't wait!
- At 9:52am on January 12, 2011, Caden Manson (Network Curator) said…
- Congrats David. Post an event as soon as you have a pic! and I'll feature it here and on facebook!
- At 5:02pm on July 28, 2010,
Heather Litteer said… - HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! MR> COMMANDER!!!!!
David Commander's Videos
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In Flight
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LIAISONS
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