PET By Rudy Goblen

PET is an interactive, one-man dance theatre piece set in a support group meeting for ex-lovers/serial monogamists built from an array of interviews and shared experiences of the broken-hearted. Drawing from a repository of human emotions, fears, hopes, dreams and instincts; while forging a blend of movement, speech and actions to tell its story — PET deals with the complexities of relationships, love, and lack thereof. PET received it’s world premiere in May 2013 at The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse and was created with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Written by Goblen himself and Directed by Michael Yawney, the piece was commissioned and presented by Miami Light Project.

Rudi (Writer, Dancer, and Actor) was commissioned by Miami Light Project to create the solo performances “Insanity Isn’t”, “Fair Welling”, and “PET”. Rudi Goblen is also known as an acclaimed B-Boy. Along side his award winning crew “Flipside Kings”, he has toured nationally and internationally competing and adjudicating since 1994.  In 2003, Rudi joined “Teo Castellanos/D-Projects”, a contemporary dance/theater company that fuses world arts and culture while examining social issues through performance. With D-Projects, Rudi toured internationally in “Scratch & Burn”, a meditation on the war in Iraq; and “FAT BOY”, a project exposing world hunger amid American consumerism and waste. Rudi is a recipient of the 2008 Future Aesthetics Artist Re-grant (FAAR) funded by the Ford Foundation in conjunction with the Future Aesthetics Cohort, and the 2013 Miami-Dade County’s Choreographers Fellowship Award. He has trained and worked with “DV8 Physical Theater” and “Cirque De Soleil” – and is a founding member of Rosie Herrera’s “Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre”, Octavio Campos’ “Campostion Hybrid Theatre Works”, and the interactive performance troupe “Circ-X”.