Milton
a performance and community engagement experiment
In 2012, Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl--known collectively as PearlDamour--began visiting five small American towns named Milton. From Louisiana to North Carolina to Wisconsin to Massachusetts, these several Miltons span the country like an earth-bound constellation. Over the course of the past five years, PearlDamour has developed a series of performances, each focused on (and performed in) a particular Milton while yet providing a sense of the whole constellation. Milton includes scripts and photos from PearlDamour's performances in Milton, LA, Milton-Freewater, OR, and Milton, MA as well as reflections on the process and practice of community-based art making.
OBIE-award winning performance-making team PearlDamour has a 13-year history of creating work for theaters and alternative sites. Their intimate, interactive work playfully examines the interconnectivity of place, narrative and persona. PearlDamour is a three time recipient of the Rockefeller foundation MAP Fund. Their upcoming How to Build a Forest is a Creative Capital project, commissioned by and premiering at The Kitchen in NYC. Other NYC work has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum of Art, arts>WFC, and PS122. Regional project support includes the Jerome and Puffin Foundations, NYSCA, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Irving Linn Charitable Trust, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Moore Family Fund for the Arts of Minneapolis Foundation, among others. Lisa and Katie's work has been published in Theater Magazine and Play: Journal of Plays (Always/Never Her Trilogy). Critical acclaim includes their 2003 OBIE for Nita & Zita, shared with Kathy Randels of Artspot Productions in New Orleans.
