Christina Bryan's Contact Details

Christina Bryan's Company Details

Capital W

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Performing Arts

Capital W is a radical theater collaboration that creates experiential art. We open portals to fundamental aspects of the Human Experience in order to create a more compassionate world. We push beyond the boundaries of what is considered theater, story, and art into a realm of experience and feeling.Our work is a collaboration with our audiences. They do not only watch; they touch, smell, listen, speak, act, feel, and co-write each show. We create communities for an evening, opening a fertile space to look at truth, consider possibility, and ask the vital questions about our time: Who am I? How do we connect with one another? What is our impact on the world? Audiences emerge with a lived experience of vulnerability and empathy, spurring them to act with compassion for themselves, others, and the world. Our work takes place in vans, bath tubs, museums, bars, nature, your house, other people's houses, and anywhere people exist. We overlay imagined worlds onto real-life environments, and use familiar social scripts to usher audiences into the magic circle. We play with emotion and vulnerability; by training performers to listen deeply to each audience member, we make it safe for participants to engage fully with the work. Original writing, at turns lyric and naturalistic, is at the heart of our work. We use tools from a variety of traditions, including site-specific theater, storytelling, music, happenings, conversation, ritual, and improvisation, to co-create experiences with our audiences. The interaction between the audience and the work is mediated through touch, eye contact, or conversation with performers. It can be kinetic and embodied. The audience is often called upon to contribute stories, text, and movement.We are drawn to stories of identity, sociology, intimacy and relationships, spirituality, ecology, sexuality, grief, and healing.