TeaTour 2009

Does your schedule stress you out? Do you take the time to relax everyday?

By day, through September and October 2009, performance artist Nicole Gruter is hosting tea parties at vacation destinations and work sites across the U.S. Do you wonder about the pace of your lifestyle? Does it cause you anxiety, depression or even anger? It is possible to dial down our stressful schedules, but do we even want or need to? Join in conversation concerning our 24/7 society while enjoying a cup of tea by the Tea-Mobile.

By night, at various performance spaces, Gruter tells you what stresses her pace of life through song. Her alter ego, Wilhelmina Baker, has created a new performance encapsulating the frustrations of her never ending to-do list and the tending to her material possessions. Its ludicrous how much time I spend on all the crap I own. My to-do list is filled with the buying, returning, repairing, moving, organizing and rearranging of STUFF, Gruter exclaims. Song styles of torch, rap, spaghetti Western, and gospel span her range of emotions through this diary of dramatic revelations. She is touring with Shane ONeill, of Shane Shane and Screamin Cyn Cyn and the Pons fame.

Presented in conjunction with Five in One in Memphis and Memphis College of Art.

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