Please note: tickets to the online performance do not provide admission to the live, in-person performances at The Chocolate Factory.

The Star Pû Method is a dance-theater technique and a corresponding theater work created by Larissa Velez-Jackson in 2012, originally known as the Star Crap Method. It is a technique in which a small ensemble of dancers improvises a work together—replete with song, text, movement, sculptural elements and digital sound—by peeling away all of the layers of the moment of performance. These layers consist of the dancers’ felt experience, emotional landscape, hxstory (personal and their formal training) and what can be experienced in the room together with the audience. An important factor in the Star Pû Method is the allowance of failure, anti-climax and human ordinariness as the foreground for creative expression, on equal ground with the dancer’s exceptional stage skill. With healing as a core facet through movement, breath, communal connection and vocal sound, LVJ asks whether the performance encounter provides a space that makes healing actually possible. With an openness to the lessons accrued by failure, the Star Pû Method makes any attempt at healing and connection a form of blessing.

Creator/Artistic Director/Performer: Larissa Velez-Jackson. Choreographic collaborators/Performers: Angie Pittman and Mary Read. Lighting designer: Madeline Best. Sound designer: Larissa Velez-Jackson. Costume stylist: Marie Rao. Production manager: LD DeArmon.