pounds per square inch performance | 30th Anniversary Season
Gerry Trentham, Artistic Director
NEWS & UPCOMING
Photo by Lorraine Parow courtesy of the Moving Voice Institute
New Dates!
El Armando Centro, Argentina & lbs/sq'" performance, Canada
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International Voice Intensives
Buenos Aires (BAVI)
Now is the Time | El Momento es Ahora!​
​Limited Enrollment
Movement | Voice | Speech
June 1 - 6, 2026: One Week
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Breath | Body | Voice
January 9 - 23, 2027: Two Weeks
Join groundbreaking International Voice intensives in Argentina, where internationally acclaimed teaching artists explore the moving body, voice and text as inseparable and fundamental to the performance of spoken language. Drawing on a diverse range of pedagogical lineages — from Shakespearean verse to clown, from somatic movement to resonant breath — this workshop offers a rare opportunity to study with a consortium of leading practitioners from Canada, the U.S., and Argentina.
​​March 16 - 26, 2026
The Lunatic Project
Clarion University, Clarion PA
After our wonderful creation residency at the Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center last August choreographer/writer/performer Gerry Trentham and sculptor Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff retreat for two weeks to follow the threads of the work in residency at Clarion University in Pennsylvania. They would like to thank all who joined their initial investigation into this new bi-continental inter-arts solo performance, The Lunatic Project Begins, through a public development performance following their week-long residency at MAR+RC.
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​As a seminal project in Trentham’s fifth decade as a queer performer and artist, The Lunatic draws inspiration from the third and final stage of life described by Jungian psychologist and art critic Graham Jackson as the evolution of the “youthful golden messenger” into the “lunatic” whose air-like invisibility is difficult to hear or see.
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Next we head to residencies in Argentina in June, the Catskills in August and to Toronto in the fall where Gerry will refine performance material with his coach and dance dramaturge Denise Fujiwara. Stay tuned - we will invite you see the work in development ...soon. "Be visible when you wish."
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The New Fulcrum Project (NFP) 2025/2026
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The New Fulcrum Project, or NFP, is a research project aimed at examining how solo-driven artists/art companies can create networks of connection that can be sustained through the creation of artistic work. As part of the lbs/sq" 30th Anniversary Season, the audience engagement event was a tangible practice of cooperation encouraging co-conscious collaboration determined based on the cohort’s research findings- a creative experiment utilizing the cohort’s shared values and unique visions.
This research is generously supported by the Metcalf Foundation.
With Producer/Lead Researcher Shivani Joshi and Assistant Producer/Researcher Clarke Blair under the guiding energy of our Artistic Director Gerry Trentham.​
Thank you for joining the artists June 19, 2025, Summer Solstice Weekend - when light lingers, as they introduced their work as part of the New Fulcrum Project with Natasha Ama Eck, Lucy Rupert, Mutya Macatumpag, Cat Montgomery, Trevor Copp, Tiffany Thomas, Miriam Cummings,
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Nasiv Kaur Sall and Lauren Runions.