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TPL™*

THE PERFORMANCE LAB™
is building a community
of adventuresome artists
and arts professionals
who will collaboratively create
a network of interactive studios
across America
for the exchange
of innovative arts experiences.

TPL™’s strength is in partnerships;
each project undertaken
builds
on the expertise of collaborators.
TPL™’s ultimate goal is to celebrate
and to preserve America’s heritage
in the performing arts,
and to provide
tools for the preservation
of arts masterpieces little known
to a wide public
(including the next generation
of American performers).

When you click on the titles below, you will be at the beginning
of an Interactive Residency.
Then, page after page,
you can trace each project
as it develops.

ARTISTS, MUSICIANS,
ACTORS, DANCERS, & COACHES
SIGN IN HERE!

AILEY© Five Lessons

Experience an Interactive Residency with
Gus Solomons jr

or with
Gloria McLean

When you click on Gus's or Gloria's name,
you will come upon a series of "lessons" —
each page corresponds to an
Interactive Exchange . . .

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Interested in hand puppetry?
Check out this Interactive Exchange between

Thief River Falls < ----- > Twin Cities

DESERT AT MIDDAY:
Scorpion on Rock & Cactus Bloom
Under Scorching Sun

Click on the picture!
(A QT movie)

Here's a PC link!

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An Interactive Residency

José Limón's masterwork*
Choreographic Offering
is set on dancers from 4 schools in 3 cities
by Risa Steinberg

CLICK on the image below
to begin your Interactive Residency.

*CLICK on the word "masterwork" above
for thoughts from Interactive Coach Diane Aldis
about how The TPL Model™
invites young dancers
"to confront the essential questions"
about the work of American masters.

(A WMV movie)

To view the movies
& some streaming clips
on this website & to download some documents,
you'll need
the most recent versions of
Adobe Reader(pdf's)
QuickTime (movies)
Windows Media Player (movies)

Some large files are "progressive download."
They are slow to start, but do play — after a brief pause.

NAVIGATE THIS WEBSITE!!!

Click on a project name.
Click on a screen.
Enter a word
in the SEARCH box.

What is interactivity?
Click on the image above
— middle, bottom row —
& watch The TPL Model™ in action
(a B&W flick!).
The link above is a QT movie, playable on both PCs & MACs.

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For sure, interactivity is —

Not "distance learning."
Not videoconferencing.
Not TV.

Interactivity is —

TPL™!*

Examples abound in our archives.
Films & downladable pamphlets
are organized by discipline
-- dance, drama, music.

AN INTERACTIVE RESIDENCY
with Artsgenesis on
IMMIGRATION
Using rôle-playing & improvisation, Kathleen Gaffney guides 4 splintered families through surging rivers, blistering desert sands, a harrowing Ellis Island inspection –– surviving even a visit from beyond the grave
–– 'til they finally come home –– !

THE
BEAUMONT
COMMUNITY EXCHANGES

AN INTERACTIVE RESIDENCY
2 schools 2000 miles apart
create poems & dances
together. . .
(CLICK on the name above to begin)

To see how these schools met,
CLICK on Jermaine's picture.
(A QT movie)

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Garden Lilacs
An Interactive Residency
featuring Remy Charlip's charming dance

This videodance is
dedicated to Remy Charlip
from his Minnesota pals — !