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Bodies in Conversation is an original multimedia performance of film, music, and theatre, supported by a SAGA (Spokane Arts) Grant, bringing together artists on topics of embodied cognition, artistic expression, and mental health.
Performed
Feb 2024
STAY TUNED FOR FILM
God's Away on Business is a collaborative Tom Waits Tribute Show originally premiered at the West Central Abbey - a 19th century gothic Episcopalian church. The show interprets Waits in jazz, blues, and opera with a cohort of musicians: bass, guitar, banjo, piano, horn, drums, and a burlesque dancer.
Choral Labyrinth is an audience immersive choral story set in a garden. The audience is guided through a garden path listening to polyphonic chant about the breath and body in English and Latin in a piece referencing the Covid pandemic and the impact on society.
Ariadne is a philosophical poetic adventure with music. Ariadne travels into an underground hot spring labyrinth during the cold solstice in search of meaning and human connection.
Madeline McNeill - vocals
Olivia Brownlee - guitar
Performed at Lucky You Lounge Dec 2021
Music Valleyis a long poem set to music. Two friends, Emma from Music Valley and Jay from Builder's Ridge, navigate a pandemic with different worldviews. Original jazz and opera. Featuring four singers, one narrator, marimba, double bass and a dancer.
So It Begins
Opera pandemic project in collaboration with FACTORY TOWN
Lyrics:
Small and spectral deaths ingest me
Internal world of unseen bodies
Travel through from feral lands
and bring me to my animal
Can you tell what's in me?
Why won't they answer?
Isolation
So we live apart to stay together
but still I miss your flesh
THE SIRENS
A verse play, Greek theater themed with chant music. Three characters: Nature, Culture and Philosophy discuss climate change.
SENSATA LITURGY ON THE MIND
Polyphonic chant and guided audience performance into a theory of mind that includes the body
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