NEA: During the summer of 2014, Paige Rogers, co-founder and acting artistic director of San Francisco’s Cutting Ball Theater, and the cast and creative team of her Antigone project were invited by the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland, to be in residence there for 16 days to work with members of the world-renowned Theater ZAR. Theater ZAR is a Polish theater company known for using liturgical chants and funeral songs collected from group visits to isolated communities in the Caucasus Mountains as the primary material for their work. Rogers, an experimental theater artist, was keen to work with the Polish company after being profoundly and viscerally affected by work they performed while on a U.S. visit. In this interview we spoke with Rogers about how the residency transformed her approach to work and informed Cutting Ball’s presentation of Antigone.
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