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Silence
A Personal Performance Experience
Torn Space explores themes of meditation, nature, and connection with Silence, a new personal performance experience. Silence functions as a companion piece to the sold out live performance at Silo City by the same name. Whether listeners experienced the live performance or not, this auditory Silence offers a new intimate interaction with text by Sufi poet Rumi and a natural setting of the listener’s choice.
Audience Role
Torn Space encourages listeners to engage in a personal ceremony with Silence by following instruction to walk, notice their surroundings, the passage of time, and to move with the audio through the directional points of North, South, East and West. Audiences living in or around Buffalo, NY are encouraged to experience the piece while walking along the Outer Harbor with the expanse of Lake Erie to accompany them, or Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park. Audiences outside the WNY region may choose a beautiful, ideally natural, setting of their choice.
Ages: All ages
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About Torn Space
Torn Space creates theater. Founded by Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola, Torn Space Theater (TST) aims to create original, aesthetically innovative performances; to introduce internationally-renowned, contemporary performance to Western New York; and to cultivate the collaboration of actors, composers, sculptors, video artists and designers within our productions. Drawing from the leading edge of the global avant-garde, TST offers both original drama and new interpretations of existing plays. Using vivid imagery that both entertains and challenges our audience’s theatrical expectations, TST fully incorporates other arts disciplines—e.g., media, music, and the visual arts—into our design aesthetic.