Fortnight
Performance Installation
2010
DESCRIPTION
The culmination of a two week residency I wrote and made all the sets and costumes for. It was an 'Opera' performance starring two singers, (Robin Dann and Alex Samaras) a dancer (Paige Culley) a saxophonist (Jordan Armstrong) and a lap steel player (Matt Dunn). The piece was based on a 1955 Folkways recording entitled Folk songs of Courting and Complaint. I dissected the narratives of all the songs to create a single narrative using bits of the original recording as a backing track to guide the performers.
MATERIALS
Cotton fabric, wool felt, cardbord, paper, tinfoil, beets, candy, sound, and dance.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Fortnight, The Earth Ship, Toronto Ontario, 2010
(Featuring Robin Dann and Alex Samaras as the singers, Paige Culley as Katie Cruel (the dancer), Jordan Armstrong on Clarinet, and Matt Dunn on Lap Steel )
Performance Installation
2010
DESCRIPTION
The culmination of a two week residency I wrote and made all the sets and costumes for. It was an 'Opera' performance starring two singers, (Robin Dann and Alex Samaras) a dancer (Paige Culley) a saxophonist (Jordan Armstrong) and a lap steel player (Matt Dunn). The piece was based on a 1955 Folkways recording entitled Folk songs of Courting and Complaint. I dissected the narratives of all the songs to create a single narrative using bits of the original recording as a backing track to guide the performers.
MATERIALS
Cotton fabric, wool felt, cardbord, paper, tinfoil, beets, candy, sound, and dance.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Fortnight, The Earth Ship, Toronto Ontario, 2010
(Featuring Robin Dann and Alex Samaras as the singers, Paige Culley as Katie Cruel (the dancer), Jordan Armstrong on Clarinet, and Matt Dunn on Lap Steel )