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(We made our goal!!!! Woohooooo! Thank you backers! AND please know that any extra dollars will go towards paying the artists instead of asking people to work for free, AND toward banking funds for our next performance. Don't be shy! We'll still accept your love and money, and give you rewards in return!!)
Big Exit is a kind of theatrical love letter to human beings who work work work and dream of flight. A dance-clown extravaganza the piece looks at the desire to transcend the mundane, and celebrates imagination as a means of escape. The piece is a comedy about what shit jobs do to the soul, and the longing for something more...
We (Sara Zimmerman and Eliza Ladd) performed a work-in-progress performance of the piece at the Kitchen in New York in April. We are now working to finish the piece so we can take it to this festival on Governor's Island called Figment. In order to do that we need to rent rehearsal space in Brooklyn. We need to build new costumes so we have fantastic, dynamic, costumes that will really pop in an outdoor space. And we need to do some basic documentation of the piece, and need to get ourselves to and from the island! This is what your dollars pay for!
Jess Hooks, our designer, built the costumes for our work in progress in a flash. We can't wait to see what she'll do with a bit of money and more time. We are working hard to polish the piece, and are super excited to perform for the public for FREE.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on June 11, 2011.
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A whole lot of gratitude,( and an email update from us on how the festival went.) And a handmade thank you card with a Governor's Island theme.
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A whole lot of gratitude,( and an email update from us on how the festival went.) And a handmade thank you card with a Governor's Island theme. And a very cool artsy photo taken by my friend, amazing professional photographer, of us, performing Big Exit.
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A whole lot of gratitude,( and an email update from us on how the festival went.) And a handmade thank you card with a Governor's Island theme. And a very cool artsy photo taken by my friend, amazing professional photographer, of us, performing Big Exit. And two tickets to my next NYC performance.
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A whole lot of gratitude,( and an email update from us on how the festival went.) And a handmade thank you card with a Governor's Island theme. And a very cool artsy photo taken by my friend, amazing professional photographer, of us, performing Big Exit. And two tickets to my next NYC performance. And a house party, where we perform an excerpt from Big Exit, and we serve you handmade cocktails while wearing our costumes. (
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Sara Zimmerman is a theater artist who works in the pathways between text, sound, and body. Her original work has been presented in San Francisco at the Fury Factory Festival, Dirtstar, and Dancing in the Park, and in NYC at Triskelion, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and at the Kitchen as part of the Field’s Emerging Artist Residency Program. As a performer and collaborator she has worked with Sideshow Physical Theater, Traveling Jewish Theatre, The Hybrid Project at Intersection for the Arts, Hilary Bryan Dance Theater, FoolsFURY, Messenger Theatre Company, and The Philippine Educational Theater Company among others. After six years in the Bay Area she is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
