Artist Lab: Beyond the Surface - WILDER
Devising Artists:
Join us in getting to know the devising artists for Artist Lab: Beyond the Surface - WILDER
Amanda Jensen
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Amanda Jensen is a Philadelphia based lighting designer. She is excited to be paired up with a new collaborator to create new work though this great opportunity with ReVamp! Amanda worked with ReVamp last winter as the lighting designer on Jimmy Gorski is Dead and she is honored that they selected her for this opportunity. Other companies that Amanda has worked with are Inis Nua (Swallowing Dark, Radiant Vermin, Spine), Gunnar Montana Productions (Kink Haus, Wroghtland), Passage Theatre (Fixed), Scott Rodrigue and Plays and Players (The Fever), and Orchestra 2001 (Eight Songs for a Mad King). Amanda has also designed for Swarthmore College (Totalitarians, The Seagull, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Mercury Fur, Dublin by Lamplight ), University of Pennsylvania (Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England), and UArts (Self; Same).
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Sara Vanasse
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Sara Vanasse is a Philadelphia-based theatremaker, actor, teaching artist.
Sara has her MFA in Devised Performance from the University of the Arts and graduated from the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training program. Sara co-founded Butter & Serve Theatre Company and their piece, The Night Witches, was produced at Stephens College in Missouri as one of their main stage pieces. During the 2016 pre-election season, Sara was a member of the Philadelphia-based political clown theatre punk band, The Hopefuls. Previous non-devised roles include Juliet (Romeo & Juliet); Emily Webb (Our Town); Heidi ([title of show]); Imogen (Cymbeline); and Gwendolyn (The Importance of Being Earnest). Much love to Luke, friends, and family. |
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Interview with the Devising Artists:
ReVamp: What drew you to this project?
Wilder Artists: The idea of colliding artistic mediums with another theatre artist was immediately appealing to both of us. The act of sharing a body of knowledge and experience with a new collaborator creates opportunity for unexpected discoveries.
ReVamp: What vision are you bringing to the stage in your devised piece based off the source material of Grimm's fairy tale "Snow-White and Rose-Red"?
Wilder Artists: We are utilizing the story of Snow-White and Rose-Red as a launching pad to explore themes that we were immediately struck with upon reading the Grimm tale, in addition to other adaptations of the story. We were inspired to infuse these issues with depth and grit, zest and fire.
ReVamp: What relationship do you have to fairy tales?
Wilder Artists: They are inescapable! While the principles and lessons are well intended, they are problematic. These stories persist because of their iconic status, universality, being used to teach right and wrong. But there is opportunity for a rewrite, a modernization.
ReVamp: If your life was a Grimm fairy tale, what would the title be?
Wilder Artists: This Is How Girls Die
ReVamp: How is this story still relevant today?
Wilder Artists: Snow-White and Rose-Red is deceptive - it is a story dominated by women, and yet not really about them. These girls are acted upon with all agency removed from them.
ReVamp: What is your goal as an artist?
Wilder Artists: To reflect the stories of our time, to be in the present, to share perspectives that are unseen.
Wilder Artists: The idea of colliding artistic mediums with another theatre artist was immediately appealing to both of us. The act of sharing a body of knowledge and experience with a new collaborator creates opportunity for unexpected discoveries.
ReVamp: What vision are you bringing to the stage in your devised piece based off the source material of Grimm's fairy tale "Snow-White and Rose-Red"?
Wilder Artists: We are utilizing the story of Snow-White and Rose-Red as a launching pad to explore themes that we were immediately struck with upon reading the Grimm tale, in addition to other adaptations of the story. We were inspired to infuse these issues with depth and grit, zest and fire.
ReVamp: What relationship do you have to fairy tales?
Wilder Artists: They are inescapable! While the principles and lessons are well intended, they are problematic. These stories persist because of their iconic status, universality, being used to teach right and wrong. But there is opportunity for a rewrite, a modernization.
ReVamp: If your life was a Grimm fairy tale, what would the title be?
Wilder Artists: This Is How Girls Die
ReVamp: How is this story still relevant today?
Wilder Artists: Snow-White and Rose-Red is deceptive - it is a story dominated by women, and yet not really about them. These girls are acted upon with all agency removed from them.
ReVamp: What is your goal as an artist?
Wilder Artists: To reflect the stories of our time, to be in the present, to share perspectives that are unseen.
