Vagabond Inventions

Vagabond Inventions is a New Orleans-based association of physical theater artists who share a language of ensemble-devised theater. The company creates innovative, phyiscal work exploring worlds in disequilibrium. Permutations of the vagabond archetype and stories of the outcast run throughout the company's original work: clowns lost in a wilderness at the onset of WWII, migrants waiting in an immigration office, has-been vaudevillians performing their final show, a prostitute and her Angles of Judgment in a purgatory cell.

This universe comes to life through expressionistic storytelling that employs elements of movement-theater and innovative approaches to the classic form of theatrical Clown. The company strives to create work over long developmental periods, employing rigorous research and experimentation. Vagabond Inventions develops process-rich relationships with prose writers, music composers, and dance artists in addition to theater practitioners of diverse backgrounds. This ensemble-driven, collaborative practice across disciplines ignites possibilities for new languages, new approaches to process, and a constantly renewed search for the melody of fragile voices in a turbulent world.