SITI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Treasurer of the Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Emeritus Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Emeritus Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Emeritus Board
John Cage has been a touchstone, an influence and inspiration for me over the past four decades. Through the example of his own life and work, he taught me to seek and enjoy agency and freedom from the repetition and regurgitation of inherited assumptions. His innovations and his life force continue to exert an affect upon the rehearsal hall in both practical and spiritual ways. Often in rehearsals I say, "Let's Cage/Cunningham this scene!" By this, I mean let us create the staging separate from the text and then put the two together and discover the new meanings and possibilities that emerge from this process. Through Cage's example I learned how to walk the thin line between control and chance in my relationships with actors and designers and how to allow the different elements in the theater - the lighting, the sound, the text, the movement - to enjoy independence and agency. But perhaps most profoundly, Cage taught me how to give the audience the most creative job in the theater. Because he was not interested in art as self-expression or as direct communication between artist and audience, Cage said that he wanted his art to create the conditions for the audience to "sober and quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences."
Job Titles:
- Member of the Emeritus Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Emeritus Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Emeritus Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Emeritus Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Emeritus Board