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    • Artists in Residence >
      • Gozo 2023
      • Mission Street Arts
      • The Sable Project 2021
      • Buinho Creative Hub
      • SERDE, Aizpute, Latvia
      • Vanha Paukku, Lapua Finland
      • Cowwarr Art Space 2016
      • Fulbright in Riga, Latvia
      • Arteles Residency - 2012
      • Arte Studio Ginestrelle
    • Intermedia Performance >
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        • Cagevent sound scores
        • Cagevent original texts
        • Cagevent mutated texts
      • 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
      • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
      • Buinho Stop Motion Videos
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          • reactivating exquisite corpse
          • Virtually Real
          • Clusterflock Ritual
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      • 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
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      • Kontaining/Ptarmigan
      • Big Dance/Little Space
      • Headlines
      • Train
      • SiteWorks 2009
      • SiteWorks 2006
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      • 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
  • Theatrical Works
    • Joint 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
    • 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)
The Rule of Life
Dance Video Project

The Rule of Life is a meditation upon St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi and their Orders of the Lesser Brothers and Poor Sisters.  The prosperous tourist economy of the contemporary medieval city of Assisi was made possible by twice-excommunicated Brother Elias who masterminded the construction of the elaborate Basilica dedicated to the humble saint, and then ensured its sacred significance by hijacking the body of St. Francis to entomb it in the basement of the church. Francis, miraculously marked as the first to display the Stigmata, is honored as the most Christ-like of all saints. He and his convert Clare’s rigorous asceticism and devote dedication to “Lady Poverty” was too extreme for all but a few members of their Orders.  Both saints suffered many illnesses and early death, most likely due to malnourishment brought on by their extreme mortification of the flesh.

 
The Rule of Life on Vimeo

Dec. 1-9, 2012     World Premiere, Gallerie de Logge, Assisi, IT
Dec. 11, 2012       U.S. Premiere, Bengal Movie Theater, ISU

The Rule of Life dance video project was made possible, in part, by the generous support of the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Idaho State University College of Arts & Letters, and Dr. Marina Merli of Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy.
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Documentary by Brigham Larsen and Anna Kenoyer





“The direction was phenomenal. ... Each element [was] thoroughly conceived and actualized. . .The choreography was detailed. Nuanced. Specific. And governed by dynamic phrasing. … It was like you (the performers) were living it and experiencing it and I was just there for the ride.”                   – Nicole Bradley Browning

The Rule of Life - live performance
November 11 - 19, 2011
Rogers Black Box Theater

Pocatello, ID


Direction:                     Joséphine A. Garibaldi and Paul Zmolek
Choreography:             The Directors and the Performers
St. Francis:                  Mychal Lowman
The Lesser Brothers:    Matt Austin, Andrew Katseanes, Zac Jelke
The Poor Sisters:         Katheryn Birch, Jenna Griffin, Julie Leir-Van Sickle,
                                  Alexis Starks
The Tourists:               Meggan Archey, Koreen Boydstun, Lindsey Dewey,
                                  Anna Kenoyer, Michelle Lowman, Brenna Oliver,
                                  Gretchen Perkins, Shayla Richardson, Monte Wise,
                                  Samantha Wortham
The Rule of Life - live performance

Excerpts of the Poor Sisters

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