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Never Getting it Quite Right: The Perfectly Imperfect New Year’s Offering of Merel & Tony’s musical film ‘ALMOST PERFECT WORLD,’ in Collaboration with Houston Artists T Lavois Thiebaud and Stephanie Gonzalez

Posted on January 1, 2023

A photo from Tony & Merel's 'ALMOST PERFECT WORLD' music video.

I first came to know of T Lavois Thiebaud—and became immediately obsessed—upon discovering their collaboration with musical duo Merel & Tony for the video Matroesjkpop. So I was delighted to learn about their new collaboration, ALMOST PERFECT WORLD, a musical film “rendered righteously imperfect” and meant as a New Year’s offering for 2023. This new film is whimsical, melancholic, wild, thoughtful, frenzied, and contemplative, which is also the perfect way to describe this magical collaboration. ALMOST PERFECT WORLD was conceptualized and…

What it is to be an Active Witness: T Lavois Thiebaud and Jason Nodler Talk Collaboration and the Catastrophic Theatre’s ‘4.48 Psychosis’

Posted on January 8, 2022

I first learned of the playwright Sarah Kane through Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre and founder Jason Nodler in 2011, just a few months after I embarked on a dance theater collaboration with a contemporary ballet and dance theater company I had followed avidly for many years. I was running off the high of what the best collaborative relationships can be. It was through that collaboration that I would meet and date one of the actors cast in the Catastrophic Theatre’s production…

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Never Getting it Quite Right: The Perfectly Imperfect New Year’s Offering of Merel & Tony’s musical film ‘ALMOST PERFECT WORLD,’ in Collaboration with Houston Artists T Lavois Thiebaud and Stephanie Gonzalez

What it is to be an Active Witness: T Lavois Thiebaud and Jason Nodler Talk Collaboration and the Catastrophic Theatre’s ‘4.48 Psychosis’

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