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Wallis
Knot Inc. is
a Brooklyn, New York theatre company, founded in 2003 by Eileen
Connolly, dedicated to creating new plays through interdisciplinary
collaboration that experiment with multiple genres and performance styles,
and incorporate film projections, musical underscoring, multiple
languages, dance, super props and the occasional
puppet. Wallis Knot is an ensemble of artists and intellectuals
fluent in a variety of disciplines including traditional theatre,
performance art, installation, fine arts, dance, music, sound & video
art, literature/poetry, and architecture. Wallis Knot takes its name from John
Wallis, 17th century mathematician, who first introduced the
symbol for the concept of infinity. Current EVENTS: * May, 2008: Spring Dance Concert 
Wallis Knot is currently in rehearsal for a spring dance concert entitled WET: Shakespeare. A variety of choreographers are working within a variety of movement genres, and all are adding a dash of Shakespearean text to the mix. Performances are Thursday May 8 & Friday May 9 at 6:30 pm at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts (39 W 19th Street, 2nd floor, NYC).
* February, 2008: Hamlet 
the next to the last hamlet on the left was performed at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, 39 W 19th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC at 7:00 pm. Tues, Thurs & Fri: Feb 5 & 7 & 8; 12 & 14 & 15, 2008 Performers: Quentin McCuiston (Hamlet), Annalisa Chamberin (Ophelia), Connie Rotunda (Gertrude), Kyle Quiring (Laertes); the Angels of Death Ashley Pearse, Sarah Preddy, and Sean Roschman; CSI investigators: David DelRio, Richard Omar, Skylar Rote, Aaron Scotti; and, musicians Megan MacDonald and Lance Camarillo. 
In this new adaptation, scenes from the classic play spring to life during CSI evidence gathering and autopsies; a live band performs traditional folk music while the character of Death plays the violin; movement pieces include Hamlet's dead body dance with Ophelia dripping wet from her watery suicide, and the CSI investigators' waltz with the dead; video projections include filmed moments from Hamlet's life captured via the many surveillance cameras spying on him.
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CONTACT INFO: Wallis Knot, c/o E. Connolly, 385 Clinton Street #4R, Brooklyn, New York 11231; email: wallis@wallisknot.org
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