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LIMINAL - a (re)imagined fairytale was devised as part of NDSU's 2018-2019 Season, pulled source material from Clarissa Pinkola Estes', Women Who Run with the Wolves , and deconstructed the fairytales  East of the Sun and West of the Moon ,  The Selkie , Bluebeard , The Little Match Girl , and  the myth  of  Cassandra . LIMINAL, was conceived and directed by Marc Devine, and devised in collaboration with Theatre NDSU's ensemble. Photo Credit: Kensie Wallner Photography          

The Seven Event - 2019 A human rights event co-sponsored by the Human Family and the NDSU Memorial Union Gallery As I was in the process of devising, LIMINAL, I was invited to create a stand-alone performance for The Seven human rights event. This devised performance deconstructs Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale, The Little Match Girl , and interlaces it with interview-based source material from aid workers that volunteered in Syrian Refugee Camps in Slovenia during 2016. The Little Match Girl was conceived by Marc Devine, and devised by the Theatre NDSU ensemble.  Directed by Marc Devine.  Archival Video of "The Little Match Girl":

Mad World was produced by Ball State University's Department of Theatre and Dance, as part of the Discovery New Musical Theatre Festival in 2014, and was fully staged in the fall of 2015. The production performed in Milwaukee in January 2016, as part of the 2015 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.  The production won 7 national awards, including Outstanding Production of a New or Devised Work. More information regarding the specific awards can be found here.   Marc Devine received the Kennedy Center National Award of Distinguished Choreography or Movement Direction for his work on Mad World , as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival of 2015.  Movement Choreography by Marc Devine Dialect Coaching by Marc Devine Archival Movement Footage:

This production of Equus  was produced by Ball State University in 2015, under the direction of Matt Reeder. I served as both the Movement Choreographer and Dialect Coach. For our interpretation, the horses were doubled in number, with both a female and male part for each, excluding Nugget. Nugget and Alan formed a complete pairing.  Archival Footage:

Dance The Orange  is an Adaptation on the myth of Orpheus, utilizing multi-media projections, original music, heightened text of Rainer Maria Rilke, and contemporary story-telling techniques.  Dance The Orange  premiered in Denver, CO in 2013, as a co-production between The Umbrella Collective and Control Group Productions.    

Orestes  is a solo show, written, directed, and designed by Marc Devine at Naropa University in 2011.   Orestes  deconstructs Aeschylus's Oresteia , exploring the relationship between digital projection as character/chorus and solo performance.

Opera del Espacio is a site-specific performance collective, creating site-specific movement performances. Although this work is created out of the postmodern aesthetics of Viewpoints and deconstructionism, the work is intended to be accessible, interesting, entertaining, and often interactive to the audience.    Below are a series of selections from Opera del Espacio's early work.

Permissible Union is an original opera, commissioned as part of the 2010 California on Location Awards (COLA) show, and was performed at Grand Performances in downtown Los Angeles.  Lyrics and book by Ken Roht, Music by Curtis Heard, and co-directed by Ken Roht and Marc Devine. Work with ARTEL - 2006-2007 Devising Theatre:  Inspirations from Russian Author, Mikhail Bulgakov, 2006-2007  -LA TACO - GOGOL MOGUL TEA ROOM - January 9, 2007 "The advertisement said ‘ARTEL’ would perform songs, poems, etudes and compositions ...But in the tradition of the Grotowski and Gardzienice theater groups from Poland, this Laboratory Ensemble didn’t want me to go anywhere…they wanted me to stay right there with them, using one unlikely trick to keep us cemented to our seats: They didn’t say a word...  A young man (Marc Devine) with a tape recorder hammers away at an old typewriter, then slowly extract from it its white sheet of paper, chews it down then leaves u...