About
One Continuous Mistake is a performance duo founded, abolished and re-founded in 2006 as a laboratory for the exploration of pain, ecstasy, and willful idiocy.
Taavo Smith is an actor, playwright, dancer and teacher interested in risk and spectacle. His experience spans a broad range of forms including butoh, clown, psychophysical acting and the radical reinvention of classical work. His plays and performance pieces have been produced in New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boulder, and Melbourne. He is a published performance theorist, an amateur pizzaiolo, and covered in a thick layer of body hair. taavosmith.com
Benjamin Stuber is an interdisciplinary theatre artist. Working across the disciplines of acting, dance, design, puppetry, choreography, teaching and adaptation — he has danced in the rain for an audience of five at six in the morning, destroyed a romantic relationship largely due to building marionettes, performed with a nail halfway through his foot, choreographed butoh to Hank Williams Sr., and with countless costume designs under his belt still does not really know how to sew. benjaminstuber.com
Benjamin and Taavo graduated from Naropa University’s MFA Theatre: Contemporary Performance and currently live in Brooklyn, New York.
One of my students wrote to me saying, “You sent me a calendar, and I am trying to follow the good mottoes which appear on each page. But the year has hardly begun, and already I have failed!” Dogen-zenji said, “Shoshaku jushaku.” ...Shoshaku jushaku means “to succeed wrong with wrong,” or one continuous mistake…. A Zen master’s life could be said to be so many years of shoshaku jushaku. - Shunryu Suzuki
Contact
info@onemistake.org
(917) 340-1932
Get Involved
One Continuous Mistake is always looking for fresh blood: ushers, volunteers, technicians, theorists, performers, directors and others. If you’re interested we hope you’ll let us know.
One day we’ll have a mailing list you can subscribe to, but for now the easiest way to keep track of new opportunities is to email us.