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Callous Physical Theatre
  • About
    • The Work of Art: A Manifesto
    • About the Directors
    • Joséphine A. Garibaldi
    • Paul Zmolek
    • Collaborators
    • Contact Us
  • Current
    • Runescores (2020)
    • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
  • Projects
    • Artists in Residence >
      • Buinho Creative Hub
      • SERDE, Aizpute, Latvia
      • Vanha Paukku, Lapua Finland
      • Cowwarr Art Space 2016
      • Fulbright in Riga, Latvia
      • Arteles Residency - 2012
      • Arte Studio Ginestrelle
    • Theatrical Works >
      • Stories from the Park
      • Grass is Green
      • Rue for Ophelia
      • Double Blind Sided
      • The Rule of Life
      • Landscaping for Privacy
      • Shaking the Yoke
      • XY
      • On the Backs of Our Mothers
      • Migrant
      • Grudge Match
      • Grudge Match: ReMatch
      • Subcutaneous
      • Zaum: Beyond Significance
      • In God We Trust
      • world forgetting by the world forgot
      • Mystical Bedlam
    • Intermedia Performance >
      • Runescores (2020) >
        • Runescore 1 Mannaz
        • Runescore 2 Gebo
        • Runescore 3 Ansuz
        • Runescore 4 Othila
        • Runescore 5 Uruz
        • Runescore 6 Perth
        • Runescore 7 Nauthiz
        • Runescore 8 Inguz
        • Runescore 9 Eiwaz
        • Runescore 10 Algiz
        • Runescore 11 Fehu
        • Runescore 12 Wunjo
        • Runescore 13 Jera
        • Runescore 14 Kano
        • Runescore 15 Teiwaz
        • Runescore 16 Berkana
        • Runescore 17 Ehwaz
        • Runescore 18 Laguz
        • Runescore 19 Hagalaz
        • Runescore 20 Raido
        • Runescore 21 Thurisaz
        • Runescore 22 Dagaz
        • Runescore 23 Isa
        • Runescore 24 Sowelu
        • Runescore 25 Odin >
          • Runescore 25 Odin main >
            • Runescore 25 Odin - Griggs
      • Buinho Stop Motion Videos
      • LPL Modular Play >
        • LPL MP Process
        • LPL MP Text
        • Performance Iterations >
          • reactivating exquisite corpse
          • Virtually Real
          • Clusterflock Ritual
        • LPL MP Collaborators
      • SERDE Istabas
      • Time the great unleveler
      • Aizpute stop-motion videos
      • Nameless, but in sight
      • The Great Finnish Licorice Taste Test
      • The Place Where I Start
      • Ghost Town: Pareidolia
      • Laptop Performance Laboratory
      • Global Corporeality
      • Sometimes it works, Sometimes it doesn't
    • InterMedia Installations >
      • Illuminating Site Birdsong >
        • Illuminating Site Birdsong Lanterns
        • Illuminating Site - Birdsong Window Gardens
        • Illuminating Site Star Pasture
      • Illuminating Site - Messejana, Portugal >
        • Illuminating Site Lanterns
      • House of Morgado in a Jar
      • Birch Loops
      • Arteles Residency - 2012
      • Appartengono-Ginestrelle
      • Altars - Ginestrelle 2011
    • Site Specific Works
    • Site Specific Festivals >
      • Kontaining/Ptarmigan
      • Big Dance/Little Space
      • Headlines
      • Train
      • SiteWorks 2009
      • SiteWorks 2006
    • Photo Essays >
      • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
      • The Great Finnish Licorice Taste Test
      • Cobblestones, Riga 2014
      • The Birds of Kuldīga, Latvia 2014
      • Soil, Finland 2012
      • Bogs, Finland 2012
      • Ice Rink, Finland 2012
      • Birch Grove, Finland 2012
      • Understory, Finland 2012
      • Orange Poles, Finland 2012
      • Birch Close Up, Finland 2012
      • Wall Blur, Finland 2012
    • Garibaldi Repertory Works >
      • Realm of Shades (2014)
      • Masquerade (2013)
      • Suits (2012)
      • Forbidden Fruit (2011)
      • Push (2010)
      • At the Threshold (2009)
      • Something's Fishy (2006)
      • Anticipatory Illumination (2004)
    • Zmolek Repertory Works >
      • InDecision (2016)
      • Alone Together (2016)
      • Songs of Europe (2015)
      • I hear the noise of many waters (2014)
      • Tombo e Guerreiro (2013)
      • Zaum Etude #7 (2012)
      • They Stole a Necklace of 5 Million Pearls (2011)
      • Home is Where You Are (2009)
      • Something's Fishy (2006)
      • Not Yet Become (2006)
      • virtually At this moment In real time (1999)
    • Academic Articles
  • Callous Thoughts (Blog)
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Partnership

Joséphine A. Garibaldi & Paul Zmolek

Creative partners for over 30 years, Joséphine and Paul co-direct Callous Physical Theatre, a pickup company focused primarily upon the devising of original text/movement ritual/theatre performance installations through methodologies derived from creative writing, poetic devices; vocal techniques; rhythm/sound patterns; choreographic methodologies and aleatoric composition.  We are intrigued with place, the sense of place, and the interaction with place that shapes who we are.  We collaborate: with each other, with community (community we encounter and community created while engaged in creative process) and the environment, both natural and man-made. Our work has taken us to Australia, Latvia, Portugal, Finland, and Italy as well as several states across the U.S


We have been creative and life partners for over three decades. We are, as Kurt Vonnegut put it, "a nation of two". As such this rune was very appealing to us.

When we first began thinking about how to approach this we each had the same idea: "hands".

Back to our separate spaces we each wrote our responses to the 15 action runes to create choreography for our hands. After sharing our initial responses, we realized that the 'hand ballet' seemed, although appropriate, contrived so we opted for more utilitarian tasks we typically share, framing each shot to capture the exchange of our labor through our hands. This seemed more in harmony with the comfort of our partnership.

Embedded within these activities is the nuanced communication we implicitly understand between each other, a communication that accumulates after a lifetime of living and working together; the gift of a shared lifelong journey.

For the stillness sections of the score, rather than a solid color, blank screen, we chose to shoot our hands within  the Copper Daisies that have spilled over different locations on the front yard, blooming brilliantly this year with a lovely spray of color.

During editing we decided to keep the audio portion of the Copper Daisies shot - including Jo's response to a leg cramp before getting in place and Paul not really being clear as to how we were going to use this footage that we rushed into the garden to shoot while the lighting was just right - as it reveals unscripted aspects of our ongoing partnership.


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Our working relationship has many dimensions. We often work in the mode of tag team (like the writing of this process statement). For our sound choice we each independently arrived at the same conclusion: we must include the song we used for our first dance at our wedding. Rather than utilize the original recording of the song we each recorded our own versions without listening to each others' and then put them together.
 
These sound tracks echo our tendency to be on parallel tracks in the same agreed upon direction yet in our own way, our own rhythm, as we see fit, true to our individual natures. Our practice together provides complexity, richness and frustration in our created efforts - and is often a source of amusement for our longtime collaborators.

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