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Temporary Distortion was formed in 2002 by writer/director/designer Kenneth Collins and has since earned a reputation for
pushing the boundaries of theater by staging meditative performances in claustrophobic boxlike structures. With little physical
movement and a uniquely restrained style of acting, these pieces have taken the shape of four-dimensional installations for the
theater.
Recently the company’s work has included an expanded use of video, evolving into a hybrid of theater and film.
While Temporary Distortion’s performances onstage are transportive primarily through the use of language—the human body
in a constant state of restraint—the introduction of video has opened up a sensual world, ironically more physical than
the presence of the live actor. While the performers onstage never make eye contact, never touch, and barely move, they
are now double by doppelgängers who act out their desires in an alternative reality of blood, sweat, sex and death.
This continual juxtaposition of stage and cinema is one of complement, complication, and contradiction, suggesting
multiple ways of interpreting the dynamics between characters and perpetually shifting narrative fragments.
Temporary Distortion is based in New York City.
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 Welcome to Nowhere (2008, performance still)
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