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ACQUANETTA Music by Michael Gordon Libretto by Deborah Artman Directed by Daniel Fish Conducted by David Bloom ’13, GCP ’15 Produced by Beth Morrison Projects. Video Design by Joshua Higgason

“Unmissable..sublime...massive-scale cinematic revelations unfolding out of a seemingly empty space.” —Time Out New York

“An homage to the campy and spine-chilling horror films of the 1940s, Acquanetta combines theater, opera, and film to explore the world of a real-life B-movie star with a mysterious past. Known for her exotic beauty, Acquanetta—aka Mildred Davenport—was the star of such cult 1940s horror films as Captive Wild Woman, Jungle Woman, The Sword of Monte Cristo, and Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, before she disappeared from public life. With a soaring and often comic score from Bang on a Can cofounder Michael Gordon and text by librettist Deborah Artman, Acquanetta examines the ways in which the movie camera manipulates how we see and are seen. A vivid cast of characters reveals their inner longings and emotional shadows in a haunting meditation on identity, transformation, stereotypes, and typecasting, set in the heyday of Hollywood glamour. This visual and musical tour de force is directed by Tony-nominee Daniel Fish, whose 2015 SummerScape production of Oklahoma! is now running on Broadway.”

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ON THE ROAD by ZviDance. Choreography by Zvi Gotheiner. Video Design and Cinematography by Joshua Higgason.

The Choreographer, five dancers, and myself with camera in tow, set out on a two week drive from NYC to San Francisco to meditate on On the Road and the current American landscape and psyche.

“Part of 2016 BAM Next Wave Festival. Six decades after the roving, raving bible of the Beat Generation was published, choreographer Zvi Gotheiner and his company set out to retrace Jack Kerouac’s most infamous route, tumbling west over the Rockies toward whatever revelations America’s roadways might yield today. The result is this evening-length work, a pulsing synthesis of sensuous movement, original music by composer Jukka Rintamäki, and kaleidoscopic video footage acquired along the way, courtesy of artist Josh Higgason. Filtering the reckless desire of the Beats through the vantage of the present, On the Road is a danced meditation on youth, freedom, and the call of the open road.”