Performances 1997 - 2008
The year 2003 marks a transition point in the production history of AlienNation Co., as its main members moved to different locations in the US, Latin America and Europe, and artistic director Johannes Birringer started working in the laboratory of the Interaktionslabor (in the disused coal mine Göttelborn) as well as in the research facilities of Nottingham Trent University and Brunel University London, an era that shifted new stage productions mainly to the London-based Design and Performance Lab (DAP-Lab).
Ángeles Romero was the main collaborator and co-artistic director in the AlienNation company during the years 1997 to 2005. After Johannes Birringer began a residency as visiting professor in England, she slowly built her own company and acting studio in Houston, described in her bio.
Ángeles also visited Germany to collaborate with Johannes and an international group of artists during the Interaktionslabor (summer laboratory in the coal mine Göttelborn, Germany) in the summer of 2004, she played a major role in the experimental opera „Ensaio sobre a cegueïra“, with music composed by Paulo C. Chagas.
[on the right; photo from Cuerpos ambulantes; October 2004: „Cuerpos Ambulantes,“ written and performed by Angeles Romero, premieres at Theatre Festival in Cadiz, Spain. This piece is a solo performamce commissioned by the 8th Encuentro Mujeres de Iberoamerica en las Artes Escenicas, premiered in October 2004 at the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Cadiz, Spain. The work is a surrealist detective story about the drowning of Marina, a women who is found dead and whose cause of death is investigated by the narrator-performer. Piecing together the various strands of evidence and speculation, the performance, incorporating video projection and numerous physical objects, turns into a dense and evocative drama of suspense.
[on the right, below, photo from „Ensaio sobre a cegueira„, an experimental opera, staged on Göttelborn’s coalmine ‚opera stage‘ in 2004]
Starting December 2005, AlienNation Co. still engages in a series of performance rehearsals involving video and digital imaging during Johannes’s frequent returns to Houston.
The meetings take place at AlienNation’s new temporary studio at Mother Dogs, Houston.
In 2009 the studio moved to the Montrose area and is now located on Joe Annie Street.
area and is now located on Joe Annie Street.