Chip Persons, American actor, performer, acting, voice and movement teacher, and director will be doing research into HoME's work processes by being a co-creator/performer and assistant director of the DoMA / at HoME performances in Prague this May.

Based on the positive reception of the feedback about Chip's appearance as Oedipus in HoME's Oedipus (complexly), Chip's faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder awarded him a grant to spend a month in Prague studying HoME's site-specific and interactive work. His colleagues were particularly intrigued by the concept of "theater as play."

This exchange will be pedagogical one as well. Chip will be teaching a Viewpoints workshop at DAMU, and he will be attending (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner (Dilogicke jednani) classes at DAMU. Chip first encountered (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner at the Bohemian National Hall in NYC in 2006, when Ivan Vyskočil, Jan Hančil, Alexander Komlosi and Howard Lotker were there for 3 weeks giving workshops.

This pedagogical and artistic exchange will continue in 2011, with teachers from DAMU giving (Inter)acting with the Inner Partner workshops at the University of Colorado, while Lotker will create a new performance at the university's Atlas multimedia institute. We hope that this will lead to a long term relationship with the University of Colorado at Boulder, and DAMU.

Chip Persons is an ideal person for Change / Exchange, he has a 16 year relationship with Prague and Central Europe. Chip has worked in Prague with Black Box Theatre Company, at Boris Hybner’s Gag Studio, with Artists for Prague at Divadlo Na zábradlí, and with Divadlo Kašpar and Misery Loves Company at Divadlo v Celetné.