The Performance Work
of Body Research
... fascinating; awkward, tender, and violent movement combined with snippets of dialog and swiftly built-up characters and relationships, creating social and sexual conflicts with an almost unnerving intimacy... utterly compelling. BRETT FETZER, The Stranger (Seattle April 2004) {about Ashes}
... extremely interesting. I highly recommend it. ANNIE WAGNER, The Stranger (Seattle October 2004) {about Axolotl}
I left the theater shell-shocked. It was easily the oddest, most surprising performance experience I've ever had. And, against all expectations, one of the most rewarding. BRENDAN KILEY, The Stranger (Seattle October 2005) {about Axolotl}
...something startling and strangely beautiful to behold. MOLLY RHODES, SF Weekly (August 2007) {about Proximity}
Recent Performances
July 26 - August 12, 2007 in San Francisco and Santa Cruz, CA (click on links for specific dates, times, venues)
Axolotl - participatory performance work in which the audience is blindfolded for 2 hours and invited to interact and explore with each other and a group of actors dancers and musicians searching after the nature of meaningful experience
Proximity -- a work blending proscenium dance/theater performance with opportuinities offered for audience involvement, exploring the self and the beauty, awkwardness, and darkness of human interconnection. As part of the work, audience members choose from various levels of involvement from traditional "audience as witness" to less mediated interaction with performers and other audience members.
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other recent performance projects
Close Quarters --Intimate performance of the juxtoposition of movement interaction based in calm, abstract kinesthetic experience with physical relationships formed by the emotional responces to somatic-psychotherapeutic studies. Multiple rooms of action with the audience wandering the rooms to view the scenes, constructing their own experience by following their curiousity.
Ashes -- somatic-psychological studies in physical theater
and release-based dance and partnering
Dancing Wilderness Project -- an ongoing investigation
into the interrelationships amongst wilderness experience, body-based
creative process and how we choose to live our lives.
Improvisations -- since 1987,
Karl Frost has been devoted to improvisation as performance, both
as formal performance of improvisation as art form and to the performing
of informal compositional studies, where the aim is to share the research
and investigations of mind and awareness. His first evening
length solo improvisation was Ulysses,
performed in Vienna and San Francisco in 1998.