Sarah Small

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"The singers' voices resound thrillingly... midst the sea of humanity all around... seems like a miracle and ‘Delirium’ like a gift."

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“an energizing newness… a humble and humbling view of humanity that feels authentic. Even poetic... what you take away is a kind of peace.” 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             – The Washington Post

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"I can't imagine when I last partook of something that made me feel so alive... so singular, so heartbreaking."                –Jenny Jozwiak (Attendee, 2009)

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“Maybe Dali's child, but not me, could have come up with what we experienced... celebration of love and life, union and individuality,

birth and death and everything in between...."                      – Alexandrea Thompson (Bride, Participant, 2011 - Married within the Tableau Vivant, May 24th, 2011)

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“I came out of this experience transformed and connected to everyone”                                                                                     – John Marchini (Participant, 2011)

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“Sarah has changed my life deeply."                                                                                                                                                     – Mark Hanko (Participant, 2011)

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"Small allowed the sum interactions to unfold of their own accord without attempting to ‘build in’ particular elements of persuasion for the viewer. We were invited to see, but not offered an easy pathway towards a particular brand of intelligibility."                                 – Noah McClain (Attendee, 2009)

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“For days afterwards, I was almost unable to work or concentrate on anything other than the three days we all spent together. Sarah is a queen of creating a mythical realm of absolute beauty, love, joy and peace. This experience will remain in us forever... I leave with a single sentence by Dostoyevsky which has been my motto for many years: "Beauty will save the world."                                                          – Dennis Rolland (Participant, 2011)

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“In a disconnected digital age, strangers came out of their houses and tenderly sat together cheek to cheek..."     – Greg Walloch (Participant, 2010-2011)

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“... at one point I could not feel my legs and arms of so many goose bumps I had... lost sense of where I was...

and felt the energy inside of me.”                                                                                                                                 – Cecilia DeBucourt (Photographer, Attendee, 2011)

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“We all felt safe in a way that cannot be forced or faked..."                                                                                             – Cybele Kaufmann (Participant, 2010-2011)

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“I think, from now on, whenever I experience anxiety, I am going to take three audible breaths in and out, and feel everyone breathing with me.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       – Michael Angelo (Participant, 2011)

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"Sarah brought the humanity back into art and for the first time made me feel like I was witness to something spectacular." 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           – Larissa Carson (Attendee, 2009)

 

“I feel as though something momentous and important has happened in my life.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                 – Kira Kupfersberger (Participant, 2011)

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“I think Saturday may have been one of the most worthwhile performances in my life..."

                                                                                                                                                                                        – Abigail Wright (Participant, Opera Singer, 2010-2011)

 

“... I never once heard anyone say, "I don't feel comfortable addressing this question.”                                                       – Sarah Zar (Participant, 2011)                                                                                                        –

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"... one of the great art events in NYC this year”                                                                                                                             – Jeff Wengrofsky (Participant, 2009)

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"... Sarah is one of the "touched by God" people, like daVinci...”                                                                                                     – Tatyana Kot (Participant, 2011)

 

“I wish I could write as good as a writer can in order to put into words to what I felt. I can't."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          – Renzo Vitale (Acoustician, 2011)

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“If only its waves could cover and contaminate the world!”                                                                                                             – Cully Firmin (Participant, 2011)

 

“I've never felt so safe with a group of strangers, strangers who became family that I want to protect. I was living in an alternate reality...

We summoned an energy that most people do not get to experience in their lifetimes... I carry that with me forever... Sarah is a Shaman.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       – Michael Angelo (Participant, 2011)

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“Tableau defies definition.”                                                                                                                                                         – Dragonfly Diva (Participant, 2010-2011)

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“This is what kids must feel like when they have to return from the best summer camp ever.”                                              – Susanne Goetz (Participant, 2011)

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“It made me look at people differently on the subway and street. Now I imagine anyone could be a part of the Tableau – if they are open-hearted enough... more substantial than anything hippies and new agers could achieve... high art. I have elevated insight into the human condition because of Sarah.”

                                                                                                                                                                                               – Shelley Thomas (Participant, Vocal Quartet, 2011)

 

“Sarah is an incarnation of love.”                                                                                                                                                            – Sally Heckel (Participant, 2011)

“This is the first time I've ever trusted a large group of human beings so completely... We all believed in the importance of bringing this work

of art to life... this piece is masterful beyond even 'its own' goals... an untainted, transcendent creation.”                                – Sarah Zar (Participant, 2011)

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“Small’s gatherings induce a collective voyeurism in her audience, with all of the decadent triggers of imperial pageantry,

and Fellini-esqe morbidity, that inevitably tips into participation.”                                                                          – Peter Spagnuolo (Attendee, 2009, 2010, 2011)