CoMMiT
Camille
Maurine's
Moving
Theater
CoMMiT
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Camille
Maurine's
Moving
Theater
is a living, evolving form of
experimental theater. Created and directed by Camille
Maurine, this exciting, body-based performance process is
about bringing the inner world out into creative
expression. Through an unusual weaving of dance, sound, and
words, the performers reveal images, stories, myths, and
dreams that pulse in the human heart. CoMMiT is a Moving
Theater of the soul - raw, tender, humorous, and deeply
personal.
Performances and Open Houses occur periodically at the
Continuum, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA.
Coming
Up Soon!
“Here
Now” ~
Improvisations
on Love, Magic, and Transformation ~ Performance on
Saturday,
March 20th, 2010 ~ 8pm at
Continuum in Santa Monica. Members of
CoMMiT
~ the advanced
group of Camille Maurine’s Moving Theater ~ share
stories and visions from the Heart. Performers: Casey Marie Smith, Craig
Schwartz, David Sadka, Gina Carlson, Julie Coren, Mathilda
Rosset, Nomi Isak, Raven Nalika Rose, Russel Mulock.
Suggested
donation: $10. Contact Camille by email or call 310 821-0620.
SEE FLYER for “HERE
NOW” ~ 8pm Saturday, March
20, 2010
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"No
Stranger" - Sundays, April 30, May
7, 14, 2006. 7:30 PM at Continuum, Santa Monica,
CA. The advanced group
of CoMMiT
gave a series of lively
informal performances in Spring. "No
Stranger" is a moving
dream of stories, energies, and inner characters,
improvised from deep listening, intimate interaction, and
embodied expression. Taught and directed by Camille
Maurine, performed by Gina Carlson, Doug Hammett, Outi
Harma, Fred Kahane, Nomi Isak, Craig Ng, Samantha Persoff,
Craig Schwartz, and Casey Smith. At the Continuum Studio,
1629 18th Street #7, just north of Olympic.
"Holiday
Spirits" - December,
2005 - an improvisation on the holy, heartrending, and
hilarious, Sunday, December 4th and 11th, 7:30 PM at the
18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. Performed by
members Kelly Garrity, Doug Hammett, Outi Harma, Fred
Kahane, Nomi Isak, Craig Ng, Samantha Persoff, Craig
Schwartz, and Casey Smith.
"Open
Secrets", Improvisations on the Light and Shadow of
Love - Summer, 2002. A daring experiment in a
unique, completely spontaneous format, and we mean 100%
improv, diving into the great unknown together, both
performers and audience. Each evening was entirely
different, a kind of moving dream that exposed some of the
secrets that pulse in the human heart. The particular
texture each night was created through the interplay among
the performers, as well as the presence and attention of
the audience. The house was filled to capacity and many
audience members attended several performances.
"Naked
Moment" Wild and tender musings on life, the universe, and
everything - 2001.
Performances by 8 Advanced Players, woven together in a
tapestry of honesty, revelation, and support.
"Perturbations"
- 2000.
Improvisational Performances by Advanced Players. At the
Continuum Studio, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica.
"Love,
Death, Power" - 1999.
Improvisational Performances by Advanced Players. At the
Continuum Studio, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica.
"Sistrum"
- 1998. Performances
by 8 Women, directed by Camille Maurine. At the Continuum
Studio, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica.
"Las
Locas" - 1997.
Performances by 8 Women, directed by Camille Maurine. At
the Continuum Studio, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa
Monica.
Below: CoMMiT Performers 2002 (as seen below from left):
Camille Maurine, Chris Shearer, Craig Ng, Doug Hammett,Kara
Masters, Denyce Giannioses, Malcolm Groome, Outi Harma, and
Sara Staehle.
This group of talented dancers, actors,
artists and healers has been working with Camille for
years, cultivating the rapport, skills and artful awareness
of Moving Theater that was evident in these performances.
For the 2002 series, Camille gave herself the challenge of
being both director and performer. A documentary is being
created on CoMMiT and the intimate interactions that
Camille and this group experienced together. Extremely
intense, inspiring, transformational!
Photos & Card by Réne Armenta