Old Friends

Tiina and Peter haven't seen each other in 25 years. Once friends living in Chicago in their 20s and 30s, their only contact has been through social media. Until today, when they will arrive in the same time and place to explore the nature of distance, of aging, and their evolved relationships to performing, all in front of a live audience.

Using structure improvisation, story, song and movement, Tiina Morin and Peter Sciscioli offer “Old Friends”, an experiment in presence, creation, and what it may mean for the essence of a person and of a friendship to always remain the same.

Artist Bios:

Peter Sciscioli is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary performer, educator, and producer whose work encompasses dance, music, theater and film. He creates performance works through a choreographic lens. He has worked with composer and interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk, Jane Comfort and Company, appeared in films, dances and operas by Jonathan Bepler/Matthew Barney, Ping Chong, DD Dorvillier, Susan Marshall and Philip Glass/Mary Zimmerman. Peter has taught in countries from Mexico to Bulgaria, co-initiated The Sounding Body workshop at Movement Research in New York. In 2012, he founded the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC), Peter is delighted to be working with Tiina for the inaugural Mqt Fringe Fest. www.petersciscioli.com

Tiina Morin is an arts and cultural worker based in Marquette and oversees the development of the City’s Cultural Trail, Trailhead and public art initiatives that shape the City's cultural landscape. In a different life, Tiina was an interdisciplinary performer and movement artist in Chicago, rooted in Contact Improvisation (CI). She studied with influential postmodern dance artists including Simone Forti, Nancy Stark Smith, and Robert Dunn. A founding member of Limbic Fix, Chicago’s first CI dance company, she has performed with Hed