The Addiction Series is an on-going, ever-evolving series of projects that range from readings to gallery installations to performances. When we were in the concept phase they soon realized that the ideas were too big for one performance, for one play, for one night of experience. We ran into so many people with so many stories of their own addiction that it became apparent that this project can go in so many directions. The series so started with a workshop series, sponsored by the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, at a home for recovering females, whose stories have painted the beginnings of the first gallery installations as well as the text for the first performance.
Performance History
May 2010, Partner with Blake High School to create a dance installation based on Addiction: The Moment of Clarity
April 2010, Partner with Dance Department of FAU to create dance installation based on Addiction: The Moment of Clarity
April 2010, Ybor Festival of the Moving Image performance/Documentary showing
March 2010, The Bottom of the Glass, Premiere performance at The SIlver Meteor Gallery, Tampa
May 2010, Workshopping with Blake High School Students, bsed on the cautionary tale, Go Ask Alice
Winter 2009-2010, Art Gallery Installation
Novemebr 2009, Premeire of the Dance Concert, Addiction: The Moment of Clarity, including a sneak peak at some of the visual art components
October 2009, Hillsborough County Arts Council performance
September 2009, Deep Carnivale Literary Festival
About The Bottom of the Glass
The Bottom of the Glass is the next Tampa-grown collaboration and part of our 09-10 season's Addiction Series. Taking a step backwards from the word "addiction" the play hosts seven main characters based on Dante's deadly vices all housed at the local dive bar. These unmatched characters keep finding themselves back at the same local haunt with the same collection of misfits, We follow them through the course of a year in this limbo for wayward souls. Based on the archetypes of Dante's 7 vices: Pride, Greed, Lust, Wrath, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. This play is rated "R" for adult content and language.
In the tradition of All Out Rep's collaborative style, the audience is part f the process. The first weekend will be followed by a talkback with the audience. The Cast/writers will work on the play the week to follow and re-present the play again the second weekend.
"The Bottom of the Glass: A Peculiar Vice" features performances by Emily Belvo, Nic Carter, Jonathan Cho, Kyle Porter, Ami Sallee Corley, Gi Sung, Joanna Sycz and Brandon Windish. The Script and Concept are the direct result of the creative minds of the Creative Collective, which includes the cast listed above as well as, Magali Naas Adams, Heather Atkinson, Hampton Dohrman, Catherine Hagner, Dahlia Legault, Shana Perkins, Jen Rae and Jessica Rothert. This piece was conceived through a series of workshops in the December hosted by All Out Rep and the Creative Collective began meeting in the virtual world of Google WAVE on January 3rd of this year to begin an experiment in collaborative playwriting. It turned out to be an exceptional experience for all involved and allowed collective members to contribute in this virtual, real-time conference room from Tampa, St. Pete, Naples, Baltimore, Colorado and Ohio.
The Live performance featured 8 Actors, 12 writers, 2 musicians, 4 original songs, 2 artists, original artwork, 2 filmmakers, 6 original films.
About Addiction: The Moment of Clarity
All Out Repertory Company presents Addiction: The Moment of Clarity. November 13th at 8pm in the Mainstage Theater of HCC Ybor Campus Performing Arts Building. Come at 7:30 for light refreshments and to see the gallery installation. This is the first full installment in the Addiction Series, a collection of performance, visual and written art that focus on the journey into and out of addiction. Addiction: The Moment of Clarity features choreography by Shana Perkins, Melissa Torres, Brian Fidalgo and Christina Acosta. Students from Orange Grove Middle Magnet School will perform at the top of the show.
Conceived by Artistic Director and Managing Director, Shana Perkins and Ami Sallee Corley, The Addiction Series has many components. In July, Perkins began working with Lynn Norton from the Hillsborough County Arts Council to create an outreach project with a local halfway house for recovering female addicts to teach them and encouraging them to share their stories. Perkins and Corley worked with the women for two months, recording their stories and working with them to create a very heartfelt and cathartic dance theater performance that the women shared with their family and friends on a visitation day. Perkins also employed the skills of photographer Jyl Hawver and visual artist Debbie Gadtke to photograph the tattoos of the women, tattoos acquired as a right of passage, and turn them into the scenic design for the November Performance as well as an art gallery installation for the lobby. Actor and illustrator Joel Gennari will also contribute to the gallery display. All Out is currently working with the Hillsborough County Arts Council to set up the Gallery Installation.
The November performance will include an infusion of words from the Women of Rose Manor as well as local poet and writer, Lori Karpay, and original music from local bands, Grey Market and Geri X.
Corley has been working with the dancers-who-can-act to bring a dramatic plot line into the performance and a small handful of actors-who-can-dance to act initially as spoken word talent for the November performance and be the actual characters in the Spring performance, which hopes to be featured in the Ybor Festival of the Moving Image in February.
All Out Rep's 1st Tampa-grown production, The Agreeable Husband, had a successful debut performance in April at the 2009 Ybor Festival of the Moving Image and followed up with a fundraiser performance at The Ritz in Ybor in June. Future performance include a school performance for Blake High School (where Corley and Perkins will work with students to create their own Addiction Series performance piece inspired by the cautionary tale, "Go Ask Alice"), The Eleanor Dempsey Performing Arts Center in Hudson, and The Willow Theatre in Boca Raton.
All Out Rep is collaborative production company, mixing and merging artforms: Dance, Theater, Music, Visual and Media Art. All Out is dedicated to expanding Tampa's arts resources and arts audiences through collaboration and touring.