DIRECTING – CHOREOGRAPHING – DEVISING
SOME PROJECTS
The ability to temporarily suspend the self in order to experience and then include another world view enables more intelligent choice making in the development of selves, and social systems.
Social structures and constructs are extensions of human internal structures and constructs. When one experiences varied internal structures in the first person then open, empathic conversation becomes possible and non-fear based actions and choices present themselves for consideration. By experiencing the motivating factors of different individuals we can understand the otherwise impenetrable “why” of differences in belief and behavior.
If we can impartially empathize with divergent internal constructs (perspectives) then maybe we can find the most useful aspects in our varried social constructs and synthesize them to create a better society, develop more effective rehabilitation methods, organization structures, and cross-cultural relations. We can experience another person’s point of view and from that vantage point we can better understand where we overlap, where we differ and why. We can then make take the most helpful aspects of all points of view, merging them into a new course of intelligent action. Revealing people and society, what each can be, and how they co-create each other.
All of my work, collaborative, or solo has the underlying philosophy, which is to say question, of how we all can flow more wholly with life, so living can be a creative act. I create work that explores the plasticity of meaning and identity. Interested in both facilitating and exploring empathy and culture building, I use all artistic mediums to explore the dynamics and qualities of human experience and interaction.
Grounded in the premise ‘if actors can empathize with anyone, anyone can,’ I engage artists, scientists and others to ask “how plastic are we?” “what happens to us when we inhabit someone else’s skin?”
Wanderlust was the recipient of the following 2011 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Awards:
Outstanding Production of a Musical or Play with Music
Outstanding Choreography
Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Musical (Cydney McQuillan-Grace)
Outstanding Costume Design
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elizalayryan@gmail.com
Eliza Lay. Acting. Directing/Devising. Teaching. 