Ensemble-created work

A highlight of our artistic achievement is the creation of Women and War – which premiered in 2005. This project was truly emblematic of our mission, as it allowed the company to grow artistically and also to contribute to our community by fostering dialogue and understanding amongst people of very different backgrounds and political opinions. In addition to the receipt of two highly competitive NEA Creativity Grants (our 2005 grant was one of only nine awarded to arts organizations in Georgia), the project attracted significant notice from critics and others:

• Women and War was featured in the September 2005 issue of American Theatre, the prestigious national theatre magazine. The article described in-depth the collaborative process that was utilized to create the piece.
• After viewing an in-process showing of the piece at The Carter Center, President Jimmy Carter commented, “Synchronicity’s Women and War is a rich example of the social power of cultural arts. By exploring the world’s wars thoughtfully, the message reflects the importance of pursuing peace around the globe, a goal to which The Carter Center is also dedicated.”
• Wendell Brock of the Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote of Women and War: “The product of nearly 50 interviews with Atlanta-area women whose lives have touched by the social scourge, the world premiere succeeds at the nearly impossible task of making a dreaded subject come to life as a provocative entertainment that gently touches the soul with compassion and generosity. Though the show is largely fact-based, it resists the temptation to exist as a mere collection of testimonials, instead transforming the material into a multimedia hybrid for nine performers that uses visual imagery, dance, song and text to evince a remarkably effective theatrical experience.”

In Creative Loafing, Curt Holman wrote “Synchronicity Performance Group tries to encompass the entirety of the experience in Women and War, a project of nearly insane ambition and scope… The show evolves into more than a pacifist diatribe or lament about women's global victimhood… Women and War returns to images of feminine strength, without stooping to motivational feminist uplift.”