Enough IS enough
Written by Billy Siegenfeld
Performed by Jordan Batta & Billy Siegenfeld
Original Direction by Tucker DeGregory
A play about a rehearsal for
a play on the old theme:
how awful AND wonderful life is.
With snatches of song, bursts of dance, crazed rants about life, and heartfelt appeals to the moon, Stephen Sondheim, and Jane Austen—who, GENIUS that she was, combined two words “fortitude” and “gentleness” MORE THAN 200 YEARS AGO because she believed that said combo is a BOTH-AND way of doing life not an EITHER-OR way of doing it.
This is a 90 minute show, with no intermission. There are a few instances of explicit language.
STANDING DOWN STRAIGHT® (SDS) is an anatomically fact-based, rhythm-driven approach to performing arts training and body-mind wellness. SDS uses gravity-directed relaxation as the source of moving and vocalizing with power and without injury, whether onstage or in everyday life. SDS explores how science meets art: how combining the nature-made behavior called physiological relaxation and the human-made behavior called imagination fuels creativity.
JUMP RHYTHM® TECHNIQUE is a blues-, jazz-, funk-, and hip-hop-rhythm-driven approach to singing and dancing inspired by the African practice of full-bodied rhythm-making called ngoma: “drumming and rhythmic song-dancing.” By using SDS’s gravity-directed relaxation as its base, Jump Rhythm guides people to partner up and use eyes, hands, and rhythm-singing voices to swing-bounce together to the propulsive sounds of beat-driven, infectiously joy-giving music.
Connecting to the earth.
Connecting to oneself.
Connecting to each other.
Billy Siegenfeld turns himself inside out, as all artists do, and lets us see the world through him. His plays as well as the rhythm-sharp songs and dances he builds into them show us human character in cooperation and conflict. They feature humans acting in situations which inspire emotions – and who are therefore free to be themselves showing those emotions. The results are universal: we recognize the feelings – of joy, friendship, alienation, mistrust, loss – from our own lives, and see them expressed in speech, sound, and movement onstage by people who remain unique. If good art lets us see something new, ands great art lets us see in a new way, then Billy Siegenfeld cavorts in the latter category. See his work and feel restored.
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