Joseph Zitt has created theatre,
poetry, and musical works performed throughout the USA. His
publications include Shekhinah: The Presence and Partial
Requiem, both from Metatron Press. He has performed his
theater, poetry, dance, video, and musical works throughout
Texas with the Human Systems Performance Group and
coordinated gallery exhibits of computer and video poetry.
His interactive text system, RAVE, has been used in poetry
exhibits and at communal dance events. His musical works and
theatre scores have been performed in New York, Texas, and
Washington and published in Ear Magazine. He currently
designs Internet applications in Dallas, TX, and is a writer
and designer for the Dallas arts monthly The Word.
Fran
Carris is a visual/performance artist. She has a BA from
the University of Texas at Dallas in Art and Performance and
is finishing an MA in Humanities there. Recent
poetry/multi-media credits include featuring at Club Dada in
"Words in Motion" and featuring at Justine's Milam
gallery for the "Apart from Art" series. Poetry
video credits include "Manifesto" and
"Ignition". Other video credits include "Lady
in the Dark" shown at the Dallas Video Festival and the
San Antonio Museum of Art. Recent performance credits include
a part in "DecaForms '96". She is a member of C. J.
Critt's "Angry Girl Sextet". When she grows up she
wants to retire from the telephone company.
Ric
Speed, nee Kenric Dalton A History, by Decades:
1945-1954: Leading edge of Baby Boom, Army brat; Texas,
Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and most belovedly, Colorado.
1955-1964: 'Reign of Terror' of adolescence at Highland Park
Jr. High, nerd at Hillcrest High, naive frosh at Denver U,
then U.T. (The University)
1965-1974: Timberlawn (while insurance $ lasts), back to
Austin for hippie years, San Francisco Summer of Love, back
to Austin for First True Love, then First Devastating
Breakup. Played in Austin Jug Band (on Drag in front of the
Co-Op)
1975-1984: Finish Math degree, back to Dallas for Real World
Job as Programmer. Dull but productive (Productive but dull)
period.
1985-199?: Sons of Bob, Poetry Circus, video (computer
generated or processed) for Dallas Video Festival & Cable
Access, Dancing Tongue, late and wonderful marriage, and now:
Question Authority, the.
Debi Tannenbaum has a BSC from
the University of Miami in Motion Picture Production and
Graphic Design/Illustration and is currently enrolled at the
Art Institute of Dallas, studying computer animation. She has
authored nine children's books. Her poem "Silence
Is" appears on the official 1995 Austin International
Poetry Festival cassette.
Tim
Cloward has been practicing the poet's trade
in Dallas since the early eighties. The founder of the
poetry/performance troupe Dancing Tongue, he has previously
worked with the highly-acclaimed Poetry Circus group, as well
as with Robert Rodriguez's new music ensemble Musica Nova and
with Fred Curchak in the 1991 Art-O-Rama performance at the
Dallas Museum of Art. He has read his work extensively,
opening shows for Henry Rollins and John Cale, and performed
at venues as diverse as the Richland College Literary
Festival, Houston's Lawndale Art Annex, and Deep Ellum's Club
Clearview. His work has been seen in a number of regional
publications and he, along with Patty Turner and David Davis,
published the chapbook Three Dallas Poets in 1986. Tim
holds an M.A. in the Arts and Humanities from UTD and has
taught at a number of local colleges and universities.
Tim
Wood's work is usually described simply by
calling on names of some of the more surrealistic and bizarre
figures in the twentieth century. Poet Sam Modica raised the
name of Dali. Christopher Soden, Director of the Dallas Poets
Community, introduced Tim's poetry at the 1995 Autumn Equinox
Poetry Gala as "a fusion between Laurie Anderson and
George Orwell." He later amended his comments in a
review of Mr. Wood's book Voices: "After reading Voices:
painting with words, I stand by that diagnosis, with
perhaps a bit of Rod Serling thrown into the mix." The
strange juxtaposition of names is amplified by his range of
work. Besides "literary" and
"performance" poetry, he has developed poetry
videos and edits the Dallas Arts magazine, the Word.
Such a range, points beyond what reviewer Dick Sevrens calls
the late twentieth century's "cacophony of harshness and
hypocrisy, punctuated by blips of interpersonal and
militarist violence." The surreal begs that we move
beyond that harshness and hypocrasy. The poet's role as
visionary and antenna points out that while we're stuck in
the absurdity, there are supreme moments of irony and humor.
There are the moments of redemption or at least release.
Peggy
Lamb has been a key member of the Dallas performance
community for the beter part of a decade, alternately playing
founder, choreographer, director, dancer, and collaborateur
in numerous projects including Moving Collaborations,
Dec-Dance and Deca-Forms. And most of the time she has
managed to perform or stage innovative, often improvisational
work that has been a critical success and filled the venue to
overflowing,
QuickCam photos by Tim Wood.
