This time I'm in Chicago trying to keep up with my son. Daniel is auditioning for BFA Musical Theatre programs here an event simple called "Unifieds." At the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago, over two dozen universities gather to audition hundreds of young theatre students for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Daniel is auditioning …
Arts and Entertainment Ministries
I was culling back through my emails and noticed one that I must have missed somewhere along the way. It was from a pastor named Joel Pelsue down in Los Angeles where he runs a ministry called Arts and Entertainment Ministries. I haven't had a chance to look over the web site much yet, but …
Beauty and Race
I talked with some beautiful people last week. The Northwest Church has a history of doing special events on MLK Sunday, having long been interested in racial reconciliation. This year, I invited five panelists (two black men, two black women, and one white woman) to participate in a half-hour conversation about the current status of …
Beauty is Tension
Sometime back in the 1990's, a book was published by the Theatre Communications Guild (I think) that dealt in performance anthropology. The book chronicled performance traditions from cultures around the world, and one of the ideas the studies explored was the push/pull of balance and tension. In the body of the actor, the structure needed …
Beauty is Order
This sounds static, suggesting at first glance symmetry, a stolid arrangement of properties that 50's housewives might call beautiful, but to the eyes and hearts of the postmodern...boring. For the wilder romantic, order means predictability means oppression (in the realm of experience). To be alive means to meet the chaotic mix of experience full-on, without …
JEFF BERRYMAN 