“I love the way festivals bring people together to create temporary community. We come together, experience something amazing, inspiring, and thought provoking, then we go back to our regular lives, changed in some way.”
Responder: Stacey Shulman, Curator, Museum of Rest
Name of Company: CurvyYogini
Name of Show: Museum of Rest
- Why should people see your show?
Museum of Rest is a unique opportunity to create community, generate peaceful energy, and send it out to Atlanta and the entire world. Audience members will play an important role in not only witnessing but actively participating in the creation of this performance art. No two events will be the same, so come to one or come to them all and help increase the peace in our city and beyond.
- What about festivals intrigues you? Any why the Atlanta Fringe?
I love the way festivals bring people together to create temporary community. We come together, experience something amazing, inspiring, and thought provoking, then we go back to our regular lives, changed in some way. Maybe we met someone who affected us, had an experience we will think about for days or months, or created memories we will hold for the rest of our life. I love the way festivals afford us that kind of magic.
Atlanta Fringe is special because it’s all the luck of the draw. Every artist has the same chance at getting to perform. The randomness makes it even more exciting.
- What inspired you to create this?
I was in a yoga teacher training at Kripalu, my spiritual home and where my yoga comes from. During the workshop we put each other in deeply nurturing restorative yoga poses, then walked around the room looking at everyone. It was like being in a museum of people at rest. Seeing their faces and bodies relaxed and at peace was a deeply moving experience that I wanted to re-create so that others could have a similar experience.
- This year ain’t normal and there’s no sense pretending it is. How has Covid affected what you’re doing for this festival?
For me it’s really been an issue of timing. I had this idea before the pandemic began, and was so disappointed when it wasn’t safe to gather in groups. So Covid really made me sit and be patient and wait until the time was right.
- There’s a mysterious stranger in the back row of your show, wearing a big ol’ N95 mask and a baseball cap and there’s something weirdly familiar about them, and then they come up afterwards to tell you they loved your show. In your WILDEST DREAMS, who is this mysterious stranger? (Bonus points if your mysterious stranger is an Atlanta celeb.)
Do I have to pick just one? Laurie Anderson. Kate Bush. kd lang. Emily Saliers. and/or Amy Ray.
[Edit. note: there would be no mystery if it was Laurie Anderson, Stacey would be clued in by the sounds of festival staff screaming ourselves to death.]
- We’ve asked this question every year for the past ten years or so but it hits different this year: Will your show change the world?
Yes. Absolutely. In the same way that a bird flapping it’s wings in flight affects the wind on the other side of the world, so will the energy that we generate together bring comfort to anyone who needs it.
- Zoom meetings: dress up head to toe or Donald Duck it?
Donald Duck all the way.
- We’re making an excellent Fringey Feelings playlist. Describe your show in two or three songs we can add to keep the jams flowing.
Wah! – Bhuvaneshwari
Jane Winther – Om Mani Padme Hum 1
Steve Gold – Om Namah Shivaya (Bigger Mix)
Sounds incredible, right? Gonna need to nab those tickets, right? Click here to reserve your seats today!
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