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WHO WE ARE / a brief overview of the performance company

Margolis Brown Performance Company
(formerly the Adaptors Company), was founded in New York City in 1983 by award-winning Artistic Directors Kari Margolis and Tony Brown. The team has received critical acclaim and international recognition for its unique multimedia, physical approach to theater.
The Company's 12 original, large-scale productions have toured nationally and to Berlin, London, Singapore and throughout Canada and Mexico. Margolis Brown has also created site-specific events for such places as the Brooklyn Museum, the beach at Coney Island, NY, and the Minnesota Science Museum.
Margolis and Brown relocated the Company and its professional Training Center (Margolis Method) to Minneapolis in 1993.

Artistic Statement
As creators of large ensemble physical theater works we see ourselves as visual poets using our bodies to create living poetry. We believe the body can speak a universal language and are impassioned by the total theater experience that can reach a broad spectrum of peoples.

With the actor at the center of our creative process, we merge other media to create a modern theater of spectacle and celebration that is rich in metaphor, one that will grab an audience both emotionally and intellectually and affect them for a long time afterwards.

Our research centers on the dramatic force and emotion that emanates from an actor's physicality. Through our art, we seek to reflect on life rather than imitate it. With our ensemble we continue to explore innovative ways to express our concerns about modern dilemmas while remaining entertaining and exciting.