CoMMiT
Camille Maurine's Moving Theater


CoMMiT - Camille Maurine's Moving Theater is a living, evolving form of experimental theater. Created and directed by Camille Maurine, this exciting, body-based performance process is about bringing the inner world out into creative expression. Through an unusual weaving of dance, sound, and words, the performers reveal images, stories, myths, and dreams that pulse in the human heart. CoMMiT is a Moving Theater of the soul - raw, tender, humorous, and deeply personal.

New commentary and photos on the currents of CoMMiT are being created, so please come back soon!

COME TO A PERFORMANCE:

"No Stranger" - Sundays, April 30, May 7, 14, 2006. 7:30 PM at Continuum, Santa Monica, CA
The advanced group of CoMMiT is giving a series of lively informal performances this Spring. "No Stranger" is a moving dream of stories, energies, and inner characters, improvised from deep listening, intimate interaction, and embodied expression. Taught and directed by Camille Maurine, performed by Gina Carlson, Doug Hammett, Outi Harma, Fred Kahane, Nomi Isak, Craig Ng, Samantha Persoff, Craig Schwartz, and Casey Smith. At the Continuum Studio, 1629 18th Street #7, just north of Olympic. $10/$5 at the door.

Previous presentations:

"Holiday Spirits" - an improvisation on the holy, heartrending, and hilarious, Sunday, December 4th and 11th, 7:30 PM at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. Performed by members Kelly Garrity, Doug Hammett, Outi Harma, Fred Kahane, Nomi Isak, Craig Ng, Samantha Persoff, Craig Schwartz, and Casey Smith. In 2002, CoMMiT gave a series of seven improvisational performances in Santa Monica, California on the theme of love and intimacy.

Summer, 2002: "Open Secrets", Improvisations on the Light and Shadow of Love was a daring experiment in a unique, completely spontaneous format, and we mean 100% improv, diving into the great unknown together, both performers and audience. Each evening was entirely different, a kind of moving dream that exposed some of the secrets that pulse in the human heart. The particular texture each night was created through the interplay among the performers, as well as the presence and attention of the audience. The house was filled to capacity and many audience members attended several performances.

This group of talented dancers, actors, artists and healers has been working with Camille for years, cultivating the rapport, skills and artful awareness of Moving Theater that was evident in these performances. For the 2002 series, Camille gave herself the challenge of being both director and performer. A documentary is being created on CoMMiT and the intimate interactions that Camille and this group experienced together. Extremely intense, inspiring, transformational!

CoMMiT Performers 2002 (as seen below from left): Camille Maurine, Chris Shearer, Craig Ng, Doug Hammett,Kara Masters, Denyce Giannioses, Malcolm Groome, Outi Harma, and Sara Staehle.

CoMMiT card

Photos & Card by Réne Armenta