2026 Experience Laboratory Paratheater Retreat
"Indeed…our poverty of experience is not merely poverty on the personal level, but poverty of human experience in general.”
- Walter Benjamin, Experience and Poverty
Experience Cult Research Group invites you to the first installment of The Experience Laboratory: an eight day residential movement and performance workshop hosted at Little Pond Arts Retreat in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley from June 26 – July 5. The retreat will be a full-scale long-form paratheatrical event in which participants will explore new ways to move and be with others while cooking, cleaning, sleeping, and working creatively in communal space. We will explore a variety of movement exercises and activities with participants to act as a base of vocabulary to draw on. In the second half of the project, we will build on this vocabulary to dive into more open-ended improvisations. This workshop should provide participants with practical skills and techniques for arriving more fully in their bodies and with each other
In our increasingly alienated social, political, and cultural landscape, we want to reignite total experience in the human body. How can we create the conditions to see others without judgement, to move with more potential, and to actively shape our culture in a way that reflects what we really want to see in the world?
APPLICATION INFORMATION
It’s been a couple years since we hosted something like this, and we expect an increased level of interest. These applications will close on Tuesday, March 3rd. Fill this out soon, and please share this opportunity with anyone and everyone who might be interested!
