OUTTAKES

photo by Michael Mathers

OUTTAKES
performance form and practice to keep this story, any story, moving and alive as an investigation of self and society.

music by David Ornette Cherry and CODONA (Collin Walcott, Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos)

Susan Banyas is one of today’s most compelling storytellers. OUTTAKES does nothing less than awaken our consciousness and our humanity. A multi-media piece, performed at any scale, not to be missed.  —Dinah Urell, Owner/Producer
KALA Performance Space & Hipfish, Astoria OR (p. 4)

Kaleidoscope History
4 min.

A spoken word introduction to the main actors and protest strategies in the “school fight” from 1955 to now

Angel of Justice
essay/spoken word in process

I discover a box of hand-made cards someone left in my San Francisco apartment, addressed to Angela Davis, Marin County Courthouse, 1971

The Shadow Dance is Holy
8 minutes

multi-media visual theatre solo, with projected images, evoking what hides in the shadows of the story

Child of the Cold War
20 minutes

the Highland County engineer moves the action to the Congo and the political murders of Patrice Lumumba, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Malcolm X

Friendship
4 minutes

the essential spirit of the story through the voice of my first “colored” classmate, Ohio, 2003

“We treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it’s immune to and what breaks it down.”

--Chris Rock, interview w. Frank Rich, New York Magazine, Dec. 1, 2014