UNDOING

The PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe presents: UNDOING - a 4-hour durational performance piece inspired by our December 2024 piece Thresholding. UNDOING is a performance that blends ritual, play, and deep inquiry, as we explore what happens when we let the boundaries between selves, structures, language, and nonsense fall apart. Rather than descending into chaos, this unraveling aims to give way to something more fluid, open, and expansive – the duration of the piece itself becoming a force of undoing, pressing us to loosen these boundaries over time as we oscillate between exhilaration, boredom, fatigue, and exhaustion. The piece is structured around a central game of structured improvisation that shifts between psychodramatic encounters, vocal and gestural conducting, and exercises of somatic regulation and unbridled expression. Additionally, the stark boundary between audience and performer will be "undone," with a designated space for interested audience members to step into the piece and participate.

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​Price: $10-20. $5 tickets available for participants with a SNAP card.

Sliding Scale: Please try to reasonably and honestly select the price that reflects your economic situation. If you are unable to find a price that is suitable for you, please get in touch [thedeepplayinstitute@gmail.com]. We are committed to covering our basic costs, while also making this possible for everyone who needs it.

Location: Performance Works NorthWest. 4625 SE 67th Ave.Timing: Audience members are welcome to stay for the entire piece, or come and go throughout the 4 hour duration. The piece is entirely improvised so it unclear what exactly will be happening at what point, but nothing will be redone or recycled so every moment will essentially be a new experience.

Covid Policy: We will follow CDC protocol regarding covid isolation and engagement. If any participant has symptoms of covid (i.e. cold symptoms), we ask you to please take a home-test and if you test positive you cannot attend the workshop. If you test negative, and you are sick, we ask you to still wear a mask (as tests can deliver false negatives). For everyone else, masks are optional.

About the Deep Play Institute The Deep Play Institute is a nonprofit organization committed to exploring life’s deepest questions through transformative play. DPI’s facilitators – therapists, artists, coaches, and philosophers – aim to use play to bring people into an experiential questioning of what it means to exist. Each program that DPI runs is a unique container, creatively constructed and inspired by practices that include: Gestalt therapy, Process Work, Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Tavistock Group Relations, Relational Psychoanalysis, Authentic Relating, Nonviolent Communication, Circling, coaching, performance art, contact improvisation, experimental theater, LARPs, surrealism, existential games, and various schools of meditation.