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Representative
Performances
1978 - present
Over 1000 performances and eight tours in U.S. and to Europe
and Canada, including presentations at major international
festivals such as Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Gaukler
Festival in Cologne and performances at Battersea Arts
Centre, London, The Milkveg Theatre, Amsterdam, Emmanu-El Y
Dance Series, New York, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors Series,
New York, Nuarts Performing Arts Series, Boston, and the
Milwaukee Performing Arts Center.
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"Studebaker has come up
with something special: a fluid language of visual
symbols. It's something out of which they can
fashion narrative and abstract pieces for a
lifetime."
--Christian Science
Moniter
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Invisible
Cities, Somerville, MA 1993
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Invisible
Cities Group
site-specific performances:
Things I Never Told U, ICG, Somerville,
MA, 2003
Outdoor performance with live music set in a neighborhood
and based on Bernard Malamud's short story, "Summer
Reading."
Impossible Library, ICG, Jamaica Plain, MA,
2001
Outdoor installation/performance in Forest Hills
Cemetery
Notes for the Next Life, ICG, Medford, MA,
1999
Outdoor installation/performance about the Mystic
River
Watching the Detectives, ICG, Somerville, MA and
Pullman, WA, 1997
Interactive installation/performance based on Paul Auster
novel
Dream House, ICG, Medford/Somerville, MA 1996
Interactive installation/performance in house on memory
and childhood
Ghost Factory, ICG, Somerville, MA, 1995
Outdoor performance on journey into past, set above
buried railway
Invisible Cities, ICG, Somerville, MA, 1994
Large-scale urban performance taking place over
one-square-mile of Somerville, MA, inspired by Calvino's
book of the same name.
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"The Man
Himself is spare, compelling."
--Providence
Journal
"It's thoughtful,
visually exciting, funny and elegant, possibly
Studebaker's most successful integration of
full-text with movement theater to
date."
--David Miller, of
Shadow of a Doubt
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The Man Himself,
Perishable Theatre,Providence,
RIRI
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Shadow of a Doubt, NuArts, Boston,
1989-1993
Commissioned by First Night, Boston; performances in the
Nuarts Series, Boston and The Performing Arts Coliseum,
Washington University
Film noir performance piece about chaos theory for five
actors and three machines with sets by sculptor David
Judelson and kinetic sculpture by Arthur Ganson
The Man Himself, Boston and East Coast
tour, 1993
One-act play about fascism by British playwright Alan
Drury
Nothing At All, The Performance Place,
Boston, 1992
Original adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
Elvis in Exile, The Performance Place,
Boston, 1991
Original adaptation of John Berger's The Seventh Man about
migrant labor
Le Bourgeois Gentilehomme, Symphony Hall,
Boston, 1989
Commisioned by the Handel and Haydn Society
Adaptation of Moliere's farce into choregraphy to accompany
performance on original instruments, conducted by
Christopher Hogwood
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Dear
Studebakers:
"Thank you SO much for
letting us come to the show. It was SOOO fun. I
liked it so much I hope I can come again another
time."
--Maura, 4th grade
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Le Bourgeois
Gentilehomme, Symphony Hall, Boston
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Pulcinella, Symphony Hall, Boston, 1986
Commissioned by the Handel and Haydn Society
Choreographed performance set to music by Stravinsky
Victorian Dreams, C. Walsh Theater, Boston;
Merrimack Repertory Theater, Lowell, 1988-1989
Original theater piece about coming of age in the early 20th
century, additional text by Edward Lear, music by David
Ne
Family Portraits, Boston Women In Theater
Festival Performance Place; Wheelock Experimental Theater,
Newton Arts Center, 1986-1989
Adaptation for the stage of short stories by David
Leavitt
Face to Face, over 500 performances of
original movement theater performance, 1978-1989
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