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A QUIET PLACE / DANIEL FISH □
ALAN SMITHEE DIRECTED THIS PLAY: TRIPLE FEATURE △
CATCH! PERFORMANCE SERIES ◇
I USED TO LOVE YOU / MARTHA GRAHAM ♡
MAN IN A CASE / BARYSHNIKOV ○
17c / BIG DANCE THEATER ←
GET MAD AT SIN! / JIMMY SWAGGART ↓
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Co-creator | Performer | Designer
Channelers is a mystical, Artificial Intelligence-driven performance modeled as a hybrid post-show Q&A session/oracular divination ritual and set to a synthpop soundtrack, with all spoken language and lyrics generated by our bespoke-trained A.I. chatbot personae. Audience members converse in real-time with our A.I. chatbots, as channeled by our performers via in-ear receivers. A hyper-transactional Q&A gradually gives way to penetrating contemplation and critique about the nature of our bodily, emotional, and ecological autonomy.
An initial production residency and work-in-progress performance was staged at Hamilton College. Future iterations are in the process of becoming...
Channelers is a mystical, Artificial Intelligence-driven performance modeled as a hybrid post-show Q&A session/oracular divination ritual and set to a synthpop soundtrack, with all spoken language and lyrics generated by our bespoke-trained A.I. chatbot personae. Audience members converse in real-time with our A.I. chatbots, as channeled by our performers via in-ear receivers. A hyper-transactional Q&A gradually gives way to penetrating contemplation and critique about the nature of our bodily, emotional, and ecological autonomy.
An initial production residency and work-in-progress performance was staged at Hamilton College. Future iterations are in the process of becoming...
Production Credits
Conceived and Co-Created by Anna Huff
Directed by Chi-wang Yang
Lighting Design by Duncan Davies
Sound Design by Anthony Christiana
Performed by and created with:
Conceived and Co-Created by Anna Huff
Directed by Chi-wang Yang
Lighting Design by Duncan Davies
Sound Design by Anthony Christiana
Performed by and created with:
A QUIET PLACE
DANIEL FISH / CURTIS OPERA /
PERELMAN THEATER, PHILADELPHIA
The American premiere of a chamber adaptation of Berstein’s late-period masterpiece, A Quiet Place tells a story of a horrific accident that catalysizes an airing of long hidden and repressed family secrets. Act III was staged under the blaring beam of a 30,000 lumen projector that served as the only source of light throughout. Submerging the performers were home-movie-esque memories, surfacing in the morning light after a night of familial conflict.
Directed by Daniel Fish
Conducted by Corrado Rovaris
Scenic Design by Lael Jellinek
Costume Design by Terese Wadden
Lighting Design by Barbara Samuels
ALAN SMITHEE DIRECTED THIS PLAY
BIG DANCE THEATER
Doctor Zhivago meets Terms of Endearment with a side of Le Circle Rouge.
Directed and Choreographed by Annie-B Parson
Co-Directed by Paul Lazar
Scenic Design | Joanne Howard
Costume Design | Oana Botez
Lighting Design | Joe Levasseur
Sound Design | Tei Blow
Projections Associate | Keith Skretch
CATCH!
PERFORMANCE SERIES / ANDREW DINWIDDIE & CALEB HAMMONS
CO-CURATOR
For nearly 15 years, and 80 events, CATCH! helped to define the NY downtown performance scene, bringing together artists and audiences encompassing a sprawling constellation of performance worlds. Together with Andrew Dinwiddie and joined by Caleb Hammons, CATCH! grew from the back room of a Williamsburg bar, to take the stage at some of the premiere downtown institutions in NYC and at venues and festivals across the US. Along the way, the misson expanded from providing a space for artists just making a splash, to bringing early-career and established artists into a shared creative context, and fostering an audience ready to engage with performance art of all stripes, all the while enjoying the scene with a beer in hand.
For nearly 15 years, and 80 events, CATCH! helped to define the NY downtown performance scene, bringing together artists and audiences encompassing a sprawling constellation of performance worlds. Together with Andrew Dinwiddie and joined by Caleb Hammons, CATCH! grew from the back room of a Williamsburg bar, to take the stage at some of the premiere downtown institutions in NYC and at venues and festivals across the US. Along the way, the misson expanded from providing a space for artists just making a splash, to bringing early-career and established artists into a shared creative context, and fostering an audience ready to engage with performance art of all stripes, all the while enjoying the scene with a beer in hand.
Venues and partners
- Galapagos Art Space
- La MaMa E.T.C.
- Starr Space Projects
- The Bushwick Starr
- P.S. 122
- The Bryant Lake Bowl | Minneapolis
- Center for Performance Research
- Fusebox Festival | Austin
- Abrons Arts Center
- TBA Festival | PICA | Portland, OR
- The Invisible Dog
- The Chocolate Factory
- Mount Tremper Arts
- The Neighborhood House | Thirdbird | Philly
- Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
- BRIC House
- Bascilica Hudson
- Spin-off Festival | Chicago
- The Collapsable Hole
- Knockdown Center
- BOK building | Philly
I USED TO LOVE YOU
MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE CO. / ANNIE-B PARSON
Projection Design
I Used to Love You was created as conversation with Graham’s 1941 work, "Punch and The Judy"-- a satirical take on marriage replete with bullying and day-to-day marital antagonisms. Given carte-blanch to rework and reimagine the piece, original video footage seved as a jumping-off point, and is throughly remixed into a cacophonic milleu of imagery, sound, and dance.
I Used to Love You was created as conversation with Graham’s 1941 work, "Punch and The Judy"-- a satirical take on marriage replete with bullying and day-to-day marital antagonisms. Given carte-blanch to rework and reimagine the piece, original video footage seved as a jumping-off point, and is throughly remixed into a cacophonic milleu of imagery, sound, and dance.
Production CreditsCreated by Annie-B Parson
Costumes by Oana Botez
Lighting Design by Nick Hung
Sound Design by Tei Blow
Costumes by Oana Botez
Lighting Design by Nick Hung
Sound Design by Tei Blow
MAN IN A CASE
ANNIE-B PARSON & PAUL LAZAR / MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
Drawn from two short stories by Anton Chekhov, Man in a Case presented an array of opportunities and challenges. A multiplicity of surfaces are deployed--a dozen CRT tvs, a trio of retractable, classroom-style screens, a mobile tablecloth--as well as a handful of live video feeds, all serving to stitch together the patchwork narrative of these deeply human tales of love and loss.
Adapted/Directed by Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar
Scenic Design | Peter Ksander
Costume Design | Oana Botez
Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton
Sound Design | Tei Blow
17c
BIG DANCE THEATER
With “The Diary of Samuel Pepys” as a point departure point, 17c traces its way through a Restoration Era melodrama that echos resoundingly through a contemporary #metoo lens. The tufted budior wall that serves a surface for much of the projection content is accompanied by an array of flatscreens that flank and frame the space, broadcasting indescretions for all to see.
Directed and Choreographed by Annie-B Parson
Co-Directed by Paul Lazar
Scenic Design | Joanne Howard
Costume Design | Oana Botez
Lighting Design | Joe Levasseur
Sound Design | Tei Blow
GET MAD AT SIN !
ANDREW DINWIDDIE / JIMMY SWAGGART
Conceived and performed by Andrew Dinwiddie
Scenic Design | Sara Walsh
Lighting Design | Chloë Brown
Sound Design | Jon Moniaci