Geek Ink premieres
Pedestrian: A Walking Tour for Multiple Voices and Portable Phones
Conceived by: Jennifer Bainbridge and Shoshana Polanco
Created by: Belén Gaudí, Shoshana Polanco,
and Kathleen Wise
Directed by: Shoshana Polanco
With: Belén Gaudí, Shoshana Polanco, and
Kathleen Wise
NEW YORK, 8/3/2005 – Geek Ink announces its newest project, Pedestrian:
A Walking Tour for Multiple Voices and Portable Phones, presented as part of the HOWL Festival’s Art in Odd Places
series. Pedestrian will be presented on Saturday, August 27th at 6pm and 7pm and Sunday, August 28th at 6pm and 7pm.
A performance piece/walking tour, Pedestrian takes New York audiences on a walking tour in groups of ten on three
separate routes led by three actresses through the East Village. It allows the participants to "eavesdrop" on cell phone conversations
exploring the topic of loss - from lost tempers and lost loves to lost identities. The tours will begin at the southwest corner
of First Avenue and First Street. Tickets are free; reservations are suggested, and can be made by phone at 718.694.0063,
by email at pedestrian05@gmail.com, or on our website: www.pedestrianproject.com. All audience members will need to bring
their own cell phones.
Pedestrian explores the public airing of private speech, which occurs
daily on the streets of New York. Connected by cell phones, the actresses invite the audience to overhear their conversations,
confessions, and revelations; in fact, all participants are connected by a conference call service, allowing each tour participant
to hear all three tour guides simultaneously. The audience follows these women through the streets, taking a journey through
the emotional lives of the tour leaders, while interacting with many East Village landmarks that may have gone unnoticed until
now.
About Geek Ink
Geek Ink is a not-for-profit company dedicated to producing challenging, high-quality
entertainment by presenting an examination of ideas with a liberal dose of irreverent humor. It seeks to nurture a diverse
theatrical community that includes people of all backgrounds on both sides of the curtain. Toward this goal, Geek Ink is committed
to making the cost of theater-going within reach of all New Yorkers.
About the Creative Team
Jennifer Bainbridge (co-conceiver) made experimental theater
in San Francisco and New York for the past decade. She co-created and directed I Pierre Riviere... (SF Edge Festival),
47 Frames (KO Festival in Amherst), and committed (Segal Theater, NYC). Performance credits include The
Saint Plays, by Erik Ehn, Falling and Waving at Arts at St. Ann’s and Herakles at Chashama (dir.
Jay Scheib). She graduated from Hunter with a BA in German and Theatre.
Shoshana Polanco (co-conceiver, director, performer) has
been creating and performing original work since 1997. Her latest creations have been La Perla (Buenos Aires, 1997)
and committed (with Jennifer Bainbridge, New York, 2002) Besides being a performer, she works at BAM in the programming
department and is working towards her BA in women in performance. She lives in Brooklyn.
Belén Gaudí (performer) studied at Club de Teatro de Fernándo
González in Chile, where she also worked in theater and television before moving to New York City in 1996. Her original work
has been performed at Angel Oranzanz Foundation, Theater for the New City and La Familia. She was nominated for the ACE Award
for her performance in La Edad de la Ciruela. In June 2005 she wrote, produced and directed No to Fear! No to
Abuse! Yes to Freedom!, a trilingual play that addressed the Chinese and Mexican communities of Sunset Park.
Kathleen Wise (performer) recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence
College, where she studied French, theater and both visual and performance art. Her work includes a performance piece after
Mother Courage and a series of painted portraits of women in Dakar, which were created out of Ms. Wise's study of
the perception of motherhood in African and Muslim culture.
General Information
Tours will begin at the southwest corner of First Avenue and First Street.
Subway: F – Second Avenue/Lower East Side station
Bus: M21 – East Houston and First Avenue stop M15 – First Avenue
& East 1st Street
Parking: Limited street parking available.
For press information, please call 718.694.0063 or email geekink@yahoo.com.
