How to Manage Fear
(Performance, 2002 – 2004) How to Manage Fear is a continually looping performance recreating the car chase from the Steve McQueen film ”Bullitt” - that includes Milton's “Paradise Lost”, St. Augustine and Joan of Arc and the dancing Backstreet Boys. We try to find paradise but only end up getting lost in America. Jeff rewrites Haydn’s “Creation” to accompany the journey, while Mary and Holly swear at the TV.
How to Manage Fear has been performed at the Eurokaz International Theatre Festival in Zagreb, Croatia; the Kana Nahk Festival in Rakvere Estonia; the Belluard Bollwerk International in Fribourg Switzerland; Performance Studies International Conference at NYU, and the PAC/edge Festival in Chicago.
Music: Jeff Kowalkowski. Choreography: Tyler Myers. Direction: Michael Thomas. Illustrations: Bill Talsma
Created and performed by: Holly Abney, Jeff Kowalkowski, Tyler Myers, Bill Talsma, Michael Thomas, Mary Zerkel
