As a company, Sojourn is committed to the exchange of ideas and energy that touring affords artists and communities alike.
We learn about our city, our state, and our nation by working in diverse communities to build new work, and by engaging communities around existing work when we tour and present. Many of our formative experiences as artists, and as a company, have occurred on the road.
Our newer works are often site-responsive and site -adaptive. Staged in specific, non-traditional spaces, we now look to take these shows, or sets of actions, into residency and presenting contexts. We bring projects that blend innovative artistic practice with authentic civic engagement activity.
In the last several years, we've created new work or re-envisioned work in this mode with Australia's Arts Council at a Festival in Mackay, with the Wexner Center in Ohio, with Georgetown University, with Sandglass Theater in Vermont, and civic agencies and school and churches in Lima, Ohio.
Our newest piece, BUILT, has so far been re-imagined in a law school library in Chicago, the State Capitol's Legislative Hall in Hartford, CT and a sales showroom for waterfront condos on Portland's South Waterfront. The show is suited to partner with festivals, presenting houses and civic entities looking for ways to engage a larger community in dialogue.
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Upcoming projects that offer us the opportunity to tour in addition to BUILT:
On The Table
We are currently working on this 18 month project which will culminate with an Oregon production involving community partnerships, the use of an ambitious interactive media component, long distance cross site audience travel, and participatory strategies within the performance event itself. On The Table explores the challenging conversations that sometimes surface within the context of contemporary values and urban/rural divides. With the story of two main characters dislocated from home at it's center, and food as a dramaturgical gathering activity in process and in performance, the show pursues the question- if place builds identity and value, can a shared meal bridge more than physical distance?
On The Table is an excellent opportunity to work with partners around the US and the world.
The issues it investigates and the practices it utilizes are translatable, site-adaptive and asset-based.
The project has great potential to engage populations and communities in complex dialogue and sophisticated artmaking.
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