Culturemart 2016
CHRIS M. GREEN – American Weather
American Weather is a new work of material theater about disparate individuals working in the shadows of the American empire as it crosses over its apex. Using ready-mades, figurative puppets, live projections, customized technologies, spoken text, and original music for brass and voice, American Weather investigates a growing national ambiguity.
AMANDA SZEGLOWSKI / cakeface – Stairway to Stardom
Inspired by the 1980s public-access television series by the same name, Stairway to Stardom is a mixed media dance-theatre tour of shattered dreams. Synthesizing intricate choreography and original texts with the post-apocalyptic sound and visuals of Brooklyn’s Prism House (Matt O’Hare + Brian Wenner), cakeface honors the contributions of the wildly passionate but questionably talented.
LAINIE FEFFERMAN – Elements
Elements will be an evening-length “chamber opera” that explores the aesthetics and wonder of mathematics. Using speech, song, movement, percussion, and light, Fefferman will create an environment where the humanity and creativity of perfect abstraction comes to life.
PURVA BEDI, KRISTIN MARTING, & MARIANA NEWHARD – Assembled Identity
What makes a human authentic? Is it their genome sequence? Their DNA profile? Their life experience? Exploring ethnic ambiguity, race and identity, this duet uses original and found text, live cinematography, and contemporary music to explore the science of identity, including genomics, genetics, eugenics, and cloning, all of which impact our culture.
LEAH COLOFF – ThisTree
ThisTree is a multi-media performance exploring family and remembrance while contemplating the circumstance of leaving no genetic legacy. It is anchored in songs written by cellist/singer/composer Leah Coloff and amplified by personal stories and intimate visions created by super 8 home movie footage, handmade objects and personal talismanic props.
PAUL PINTO – Thomas Paine in Violence
Simultaneously set in and around the posthumous mind of the revolutionary activist, Thomas Paine in Violence is a text-dense psychedelic opera, taking place in a cosmic radio station, and inspired by Paine’s most radical writings, political soapboxing, swearing, censorship, slam poetry, Henry Fonda, and shock jock punditry.
ADAM J. THOMPSON / THE DECONSTRUCTIVE THEATRE PROJECT – Venice Double Feature
Venice Double Feature is a live cinema work that re-positions Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice as a lens through which to scrutinize modern day social media culture, particularly the worship of youth as beauty and the contemporary human preoccupation with voyeurism.
RADY&BLOOM COLLECTIVE PLAYMAKING – O
Influenced by Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, we examine the ocean. The result is a puppet, movement, and music-filled ride down a whirlpool of all things natural and unnatural, both poetic and scientific, above and below, through a great drain beneath the ocean floor, and out the other side.
ROB ROTH – Soundstage
Soundstage is an audio and visual performance poem created by artist Rob Roth. Using the language of cinema, the piece reflects and refracts a meditation on the muse and her remedy for loneliness. The piece projects different realities blending and dissolving in an alchemic journey where time, gender and reality transform.
KATE BREHM – Things Fall Apart
Steeped in a corporeal movement dialogue with herself, a woman explores the boundaries of her sense of control and emotional impact on the world around her through a changing landscape of folding chairs. A HARP Alum Presentation.
SARA FARRINGTON & REID FARRINGTON – CasablancaBox
CasablancaBox is an exploration into the accidental nature of great art through the lens of the 1942 film Casablanca. With an intricately woven multi-narrative script and video score, CasablancaBox is an imagined “making of”” and an immersion into the glamour, war, censorship, sexism, racism, addiction and violence of 1940s Hollywood.
American Weather
Created and Composed by Chris Green
Performers: Quince Marcum, Katie Melby, Yoko Myoi, Yasmin Reshamwala, Chris Green
Lighting by Mandy Ringger
Stairway to Stardom
Written & Directed by Amanda Szeglowski
Choreography by Amanda Szeglowski in collaboration with the Company
Sound and Visuals by Prism House (Brian Wenner + Matt O’Hare)
Performed by Jade Daugherty, Julia Smith-Eppsteiner, Ambika Raina, Nola Sporn Smith, and Amanda Szeglowski
Lighting by Amanda K. Ringger
Costumes by Oana Botez
Stage Manager: Alex West
Elements
Composed and Performed by Lainie Fefferman
Percussion by Mantra Percussion (Michael McCurdy & Joe Bergen)
Lighting by Ayumu Poe Saegusa”
Assembled Identity
reated by Purva Bedi, Kristin Marting and Mariana Newhard
Directed by Kristin Marting
Performed by Purva Bedi and Mariana Newhard
Designed by David Bengali, Ayumu Poe Saegusa, and Drew Weinstein
Assistant Directed by Drew Weinstein
Additional Music by Brian Adler (Cloned Double Dance), Ludovico Einaudi (Skin Song) and Amon Tobin (Entangled Photons Dance)
Stage Managed by Reilly Horan
Video Engineered by Ben Elling
Sound Engineered by Jack O’Brien
Ideas and Text Adapted from John Berger, Walter Benjamin, Franz Boas, Charlie Brooker, Caryl Churchill, Don Hertzfeldt, Julian Huxley, Ursula LeGuin, and Marcel Theroux.
Hindi Translation by Susham Bedi
Tagalog Translation by Joselito Manasan and Bing Magtoto
ThisTree
Text Written by Leah Coloff
Songs and Arrangements by Leah Coloff
“Ghosts” – Horn Arrangement by Andrew Green
Video Designed by Kevan Loney
Scenic Design by Bryce Cutler (In future productions)
Directed by Ashley Tata
Lighting Design by Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa
Sound Engineer: Travis Wright
Stage Manager: Jenny Ainsworth
Bonnet Created by Abigail Aldridge
Cape, Quilted Boxes used in projections by Leah Coloff
Forest Paintings used in projections by Robert Lucy
Super 8 flower movie footage by Daniel Brantley
Regular 8 footage by Lawrence Coloff
Featuring
Leah Coloff: Performer, Cello, Vocals
Mathias Kunzli: Drums
Rachel Golub: Violin
Matt Bauder: Tenor Sax/Clarinet
Jacob Garchik: Trombone
David Smith: Trumpet
Kenny Berger: Baritone Sax/Bass Clarinet
Thomas Paine in Violence
Music, Text and Direction by Paul Pinto
Lighting Design by Jeanette Yew
Sound Design and Engineering by Gus Callahan
Starring:
Joan La Barbara as The Spirit of Thomas Paine
Nick Choksi, Ryan Krause and Paul Pinto as The Manchorus
Venice Double Feature
Created collaboratively by The Deconstructive Theatre Project
Directed by Adam J. Thompson
Co-Directed by Meghan E. Kennedy
Musical Score by Ryan Homsey
Scenic and Props Design by Katie Fleming
Assistant Scenic and Props Design by Kelly Reckert
Cinematography and Lighting Design by Emma Zbiral-Teller
Costume Design by Wilberth Gonzalez
Sound Design by Andy Sowers
Production Stage Management by Dina Paola Rodriguez
Performed by Jessica Annunziata, Mariana Catalina, Sam Gold, Robert Kitchens, Monica Lerch, Chris Raddatz, Ryan Leach, and Magen Ashley Young
O
Conceived by Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady
Original Text by Alex Borinsky
Original Music by Joe White
Lights/ Puppetry/Projection by Jeannette Oi-Suk Yew
Paintings by Brian Rady
Actors: Beth Griffith, Joyce Miller, Heather Thiry, Lachrisha Brown, Brian Rady
Stage Manager: Reilly Horan
Soundstage
Created and Directed by Rob Roth
Text by Jason Napoli Brooks and Rob Roth
Music by Yair Evnine
Lyrics by Rob Roth
Sound Design by Dave Yang
Choreography by Vangeline
Performed by Rob Roth, Azumi Oe, Malin Andreasson, Michael Girandola and Rebecca Hall
Production Manager: Darielle Shandler
Media System Designer: Jason Tschantré
Video by Rob Roth
Makeup by Veronica Ibbera
Hair by Issac Davidson
Things Fall Apart
Created and Performed by Kate Brehm
Directed by Gregory Schott
Puppeteer Jenny Campbell
Stage Manager: Hye Young Chyun
CasablancaBox
Written by Sara Farrington
Directed by Reid Farrington
Collaborating Director – Marina McClure
Michael Aurelio* – Refugee, Koch
Amelia Randolph Campbell – Refugee(s)
Roger Casey* – Bogart/Rick
Christopher Gallerani – Refugee, Epstein 1
Olivia Gilliatt* – Bergman/Ilsa
Catherine Gowl* – Coffee
Rob Hille* – Lorre, Refugee
Matt McGloin* – Refugee(s), Robinson
Veronique Ory* – Refugee(s)
Adam Patterson* – Refugee, Epstein 2
Stephanie Regina* – Irene
Dave Shelley – Curtiz
Erin Treadway* – Refugee, Mayo
R. Eric Bowers – 3D Design
Pierre Depaz – Video
Stacy Arnaiz – Lightboard Operator
Sandrine Hudl – German Translator
Veronique Ory – French Translator
*This actor is appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
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