We build theatre from the ground up, creating original works for national and international touring that continue to change and develop through rehearsal and production, working in a fluid manner where the company actively seeks out the creative feedback from other artists and audience.
Blending experience in physically devised work rooted in cabaret, circus and vaudeville with contemporary approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration, ¡MI CASA! creates new work out of disparate vocabularies. The result is an aesthetic fusing of reclaimed traditional forms with post-modern ways of seeing.
Using techniques for performance creation gleaned from such disparate sources as Calgary’s One Yellow Rabbit, Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, London’s Theatre de Complicité and New York’s SITI Company, physical, vocal and spatial parameters are created in which the company improvises and explores. Throughout their process, play, listening, bad jokes, impulse, wonder and a common love for all things old-timey remain central values.
We reframe the ordinary to expose the magical qualities of the mundane.
We make the Process evident in the Performance by embracing the pleasure of collaborative problem-solving, and extending that joy to the audience.
We acknowledge that Spectators and Performers are all sharing the same sensory space.
We give audiences the agency to understand not just through their heads, but through their bones, their bellies and their own experiences.