JOIN US IN FELLOWSHIP SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22nd @ 1pm at Philly Farm for a facilitated discussion with members of the cast and the Philly Farm collective to discuss the themes from the show and how they impact us, our neighbors, and our region.
This project received funding from the St. Croix Valley Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.
This project received funding from the St. Croix Valley Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.
ABOUT THE HINTERLANDS:
THE HINTERLANDS is a Detroit-based company creating performances and public events that are equal parts playful and surreal. From our original touring pieces to the events we curate in our Detroit neighborhood, our work is built around pressing into the unknown areas of our personal and collective history with fearless physicality and a sense of humor.
Our performances smash seemingly disparate images and ideas together, culminating in new, highly layered meanings that are greater than the sum of their parts. We create a space for our audience to be in this unknown hinterland with us through techniques that disarm and disorient, short-circuiting expectations and luring them into unexpected interactions.
We have an ongoing physical and vocal training practice that is both a foundation of our collaborative devising process, and a means of conducting exchanges across disciplines and contexts.
Formed in 2009 by Richard Newman and Liza Bielby, our work has been seen at the Shanghai Biennale, the Berlinale, Alverno Presents, Flynn Center, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Charlestown Working Theater, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit among others.
In addition to our own performance work, The Hinterlands are artists-in-residents and program curators of Play House, a Detroit neighborhood-based performance space that we managed in collaboration with Power House Productions (2012-2022) and now manage as Play House Laboratories, and also curated and organized The Porous Borders Festival, a two-day festival exploring the municipal and cultural borders along the Hamtramck/Detroit divide.
“It hit me on a body level, a gut level, and it sent me into a kind of reverie that I haven’t
felt from a piece in a long time. I was haunted by it, not just on my drive home, but I
woke up the next day thinking about it. I kept talking about it... and l couldn’t get back to
my life before buying a ticket to go see it again the following week.
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