Studio members participate in regular group practice, residencies, and workshops, while building toward the development of new original works. Each member creates as a generative artist in his or her own right, with the Studio as a space for extraordinary theatrical ideas. The Studio’s work is characterized by:

• Physicality: The body’s presence, attention, and exhaustion are treated as concrete values to be investigated, sharpened, and employed as a means of studying the interior states which the body’s movement expresses and informs.
  

• Improvisation: Heightened states of listening, spontaneity, and play serve as a vehicle to achieving the moment of dramatic encounter – when emergent poetic value manifests, freed from constraints imposed by logic, narrative, or style.
  

• Abstraction: We regard the actor as an artist of time and space, whose essential task is not to interpret text or represent a character, but to inhabit and instrumentalize the same fundamentally liminal space as that occupied by the traditional Greek chorus.

As the resident acting studio of the arts non-profit, Arthouse2B, Studio Child supports Arthouse2B’s three-fold commitment to artistry, spirituality, and hospitality – cultivating an in-house performing arts collective, treating performance as both artistic research and spiritual inquiry, and producing live theatrical events for the broader Arthouse2B community. The Studio hosts its working sessions and public viewings out of St. Paul’s Church in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

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