ARTIST STATEMENT
Yehuda Duenyas is a director, designer, producer, actor, and founding member of the Obie-award winning collaborative the National Theater of the United States of America.
I like to build theaters. I typically transform unassuming spaces—storefronts, warehouses, display windows—into lavish, theater-micro-spectacles. Epic and intimate, these venue-worlds playfully engage with the conventions of attending the theater, and re-envision how audiences interface with live performance.
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THE EVENT
One Million Forgotten Moments is a public-spectacle-festival-celebration-performance, built for 100 artists, which is viewed from a custom-built theater and takes place on a city street. The street, the sidewalk—everything within view--becomes the stage, showcasing the city’s breadth and depth of creativity.
THE VENUE
A lavish and intimate jewel-box theater is constructed out of a vacant storefront at a key location in your city. An audience of 30-80 people sits in the storefront window and watches the performance unfold on the street. As the curtain rises, we reveal to the audience the street, traffic, pedestrians, deliveries, shopping, commerce: the chance encounters and the forgotten moments that make up the majority of our lives; life as it rhythmically and anonymously passes us by. As the performance begins to unfold, the intersections of planned and unplanned moments become astonishing events. Suddenly, the everyday, the mundane, the forgotten become riveting, engrossing dramas infused with meaning and consequence.
