Dear friends and supporters,

We have listed here some suggested necessities for the eventual return of performance as we seek it and need it. Please take the directives that speak to you and disregard the others. Follow them wherever they lead, however you understand or misunderstand them. Share the results when and how you can, for those who attend to your efforts. We will count ourselves among that audience.

Read through the list. Your work starts when something stops you. We will start the clock. You may begin.

Thank you,
Lin Hixson, director
Matthew Goulish, dramaturg

1. Make a performance at an edge of perceptibility.
2. Make a performance that remembers a forgotten person.
3. Make a performance in two halves that disagree.
4. Make a reversible performance.
5. Make a performance that seems to understand squares and square roots.
6. Make a half-moon-shaped performance.
7. Make a performance in the shadow of a broken house.
8. Make a performance that shatters into too many pieces to count.
9. Make a performance that gathers shattered pieces.
10. Make a performance that recreates a childhood home or tree.
11. Make a performance that wears ill-fitting clothing.
12. Make a performance that unfolds inside a smaller container set within a small container.


13. Make a performance that records time turning from side to side.
14. Make a performance that loosens the concept of time.
15. Make a performance by breaking a spell.
16. Make a performance that hears plants growing.
17. Make a performance where the body threatens to become an afterthought.
    
    Pause —
    Listen to the surface of the ground.
    Catch the start of a sound.
    Wander your neighborhood until some signal creates a mystery of atmosphere.
    Walk too fast through a museum or run through the air.
    Linger over a bookshelf, open a book, and read a sentence.
    Begin again.
    
    
18. Make a performance by twisting what happened before.
19. Make a performance that begins on the horizon and ends in the corner.
20. Make a performance by building the architecture behind a story.


21. Make a performance that stretches beyond the breaking point without breaking.
22. Make an ascending performance.
23. Make a performance that remakes itself according to its own set of rules and like a perfect accident never ends.