School of Theater Visiting Artist: Phil Soltanoff

School of Theater Visiting Artist: Phil Soltanoff

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Phil Soltanoff is the 2020 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts - Theater. Through extensive research, intense collaboration, questioning, and on-going serious play, Soltanoff is committed to exploring what is possible in the live space called theatre. Mining and recombining elements of dance, new media, puppetry, circus, lo-fi technology, visual and sound art, he builds rigorous, innovative performances via juxtaposition. Eschewing psychological realism, embracing theatre’s abstract power and exploring the ‘facts’ or actualities of a performer, an object, a space—Soltanoff does nothing less than reawaken the quotidien and its conversation with the infinite.