WELCOME.
Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish, after a twenty-year collaboration as co-founders of Goat Island, have formed Every house has a door to create project-specific collaborative performances with invited guests. This company seeks to retain Goat Island’s narrow thematic focus and rigorous presentation, but to broaden the canvas to include careful intercultural collaboration, and its unfamiliar, even awkward, spectrum.
Thank you for stopping by.
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NEWS.
NOT TO MISS!
Carol Becker interviewed Lin and Matthew for the Brooklyn Rail ahead of the NYC Premiere of “Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never.” at PS122’s 7th Annual COIL Festival this January. To read the interview in it’s entirety, please click HERE.
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JOIN US!
“Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never.” will have it’s NYC Premiere at PS122’s 7th Annual COIL Festival this January. To find out more, please click HERE.
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Caroline Picard posted a wonderful art:21 interview with Matthew Goulish. To read the interview in it’s entirety, please click HERE.
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“They're Mending the Great Forest Highway.” will be performed Saturday and Sunday, June 18 & 19, 2:00pm at Holstein Park (2200 North Oakley Avenue) Chicago, IL. To make reservations, email ehhadreservations@gmail.com
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“Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never.” will be performed as part of the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas, April 21-23.
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“Waking Things” will be shown at Diverseworks in Houston March 11-April 16.
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REVIEWS!
“Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never.” at the MCA in Chicago
TimeOut Chicago
“‘I’ll teach you differences’ warns the choleric Kent in Lear’s first act, a quotation that Ludwig Wittgenstein briefly considered as the epigraph to his Philosophical Investigations. Kent’s warning would serve equally well to frame the ensemble’s work: both for the meticulous way that [‘Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never’] invites comparisons — between film and theater, between Croatian and English — and for its potent tonal blend of pedagogy and ominous revelation.”
Chicago Tribune
“…the striking thing about this newer group and piece is the welcome amplification of three things: emotional intensity, ironic self-awareness and intercultural exploration”...
Chicago Art Magazine
“…‘Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never’ keeps viewers hooked with scenes and images that suck you in, hold you close and turn you loose.
For every bawdy or slapstick gesture there are equal parts silence and reflection.
The performance is as much experimental lecture as it
is a play or dance.”
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Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish are the recipients of the 2009 USA Ziporyn Fellowship from United States Artists (USA) in the Dance category. More information can be found HERE, at the United States Artists website.
