CHANNELERS


AI ORACLE POPERA (WORK IN PROGRESS)


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...
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:

︎︎︎ Inchworm Development Grant, Hamilton College



A QUIET PLACE


DANIEL FISH / CURTIS OPERA / PERELMAN THEATER, PHILADELPHIA


Projection Designer

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. 
Production Credits
Directed by Daniel Fish
Conducted by Corrado Rovaris
Scenic Design by Lael Jellinek
Costume Design by Terese Wadden
Lighting Design by Barbara Samuels

︎︎︎ Music by Leonard Bernstein
︎︎︎ Libretto by Stephen Wadsworth
︎︎︎ Adapted by Garth Edwin Sunderland

︎︎︎ Final Scene Video


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ALAN SMITHEE DIRECTED THIS PLAY


BIG DANCE THEATER


Projection Designer

Doctor Zhivago meets Terms of Endearment with a side of Le Circle Rouge.


Production Credits
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

︎︎︎ World Premiere: Les Subsistances | Lyon, France
︎︎︎ US Premiere: BAM Harvey


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C A T C H !

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.  

︎︎︎ OBIE AWARD WINNER
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“It's hard to justify seeking any other form of entertainment with your Saturday night." - NY Times
︎︎︎ "A crash course in what performance looks like today." - ARTFORUM

︎︎︎ Site Archive 
︎︎︎ Vimeo channel

Venues and partners
  1. Galapagos Art Space
  2. La MaMa E.T.C.
  3. Starr Space Projects
  4. The Bushwick Starr
  5. P.S. 122
  6. The Bryant Lake Bowl | Minneapolis
  7. Center for Performance Research
  8. Fusebox Festival | Austin
  9. Abrons Arts Center
  10. TBA Festival | PICA | Portland, OR
  11. The Invisible Dog
  12. The Chocolate Factory
  13. Mount Tremper Arts
  14. The Neighborhood House | Thirdbird | Philly
  15. Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
  16. BRIC House
  17. Bascilica Hudson
  18. Spin-off Festival | Chicago
  19. The Collapsable Hole
  20. Knockdown Center
  21. BOK building | Philly



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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.  
Production Credits
Created by Annie-B Parson
Costumes by Oana Botez
Lighting Design by Nick Hung
Sound Design by Tei Blow

︎︎︎ Premiere at The Joyce, NYC

︎︎︎ Production Photos | Brigid Pierce
︎︎︎ Video excerpt
︎︎︎ Judy Triple Stack Video



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