Founded in 1998 by Jennifer Gwirtz and John Baumann, Right Brain Performancelab is a collaborative troupe that works with dense ideas and layers of meaning, expressing the fears and loves that are the result of being human and existing in the world. They use the languages of dance, theater, vocal and musical experimentation, object manipulation, clowning and mime. Their process includes a method o
f movement that honors the individuality of each body at all ages using deep mind-body connectivity and game-based improvisation. The performances are deeply experimental, richly human and bring to life the place where metaphors live. From 1998 to 2006 Right Brain Performancelab gathered collaborative performers from a broad array of backgrounds including classical voice, performance art, Butoh, music composition, contemporary dance, writing, musical and experimental theater. In 2010 they returned with a critically acclaimed season with seven collaborators. Since then they have created work for 2012 and are in the process of creating the seeds of a new work, “What Stays,” a touring home-theater extravaganza premiering at the end of October, 2013. In 2012 they founded the critically acclaimed Due West Salon, a curated home-theater series in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond District that seeks to make sustainable theater for a new era. In 2016, founders Jennifer Gwirtz and John Baumann left the Bay Area to settle in Portland, Oregon. RBP performed for the last time in the summer of 2017 at D.C.'s Capitol Fringe. Jennifer is currently creating new work in Portland. Stay tuned for more information, and check out her page at https://www.facebook.com/jenniferrgwirtz/. https://www.jennifergwirtz.org/
Jen and John are also facilitating workgroups as Rose City Field, providing Fieldwork gatherings in Portland's Southeast quadrant. https://www.facebook.com/rosecityfield/?modal=admin_todo_tour
https://www.jennifergwirtz.org/rose-city-field
