1:1 Tea Service is a ritual and a performance experience created for one person offered through the School of Nonfunctional Studies. Tea is offered to the audience member both as a healing balm and as a tool for fortune telling. The 1:1 Service, lasting 30-45 minutes, sets forth actions and gestures designed to mend what is torn and ease what might be tender, and nourish. Through meditative audio and invocation, the performer invites the audience member to reflect on an important question in their own lives and, with the performer, divine a response. Each performance is unique and created through a brief advance exchange with the audience member. The result is an intimate, immersive 1:1 Service of sound, food and beverage, performance, and divination. The audience person will receive a questionnaire in advance with a few simple queries (including food allergies and restrictions) and to determine an appropriate date and time.
Performances will be held indoors at Bivy or outdoors at a set location, or virtually over Zoom. Masks will be required for in person performance times when the audience member is not eating or drinking. Physical distancing will be practiced. Participation of the single audience member during the performance will be scaffolded to the comfort level of that individual.
Suggested cost: $35-50+. To express interest in an 1:1 Tea Service email info@nonfunctionalstudies.org.