The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
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Using Pieter Brueghel’s painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" as a jumping off point, performer Samuael Topiary impersonates six characters: Pieter Brueghel, Henry Hudson, The Wall Street Minotaur, Amelia Earhart, David Rockefeller and Icarus to explore the epic rhyming schemes of the history of empire and the human compulsion to escape our physical limits.Directed by NY choreographer Miguel Gutierrez with a live soundscore by Peter Kerlin, writer/performer/video artist Samuael Topiary incarnates six mythic characters: Pieter Brueghel, Henry Hudson, ‘the Wall Street Minotaur,’ Amelia Earhart, David Rockefeller and Icarus; weaving together a strange, funny and chilling fugue about art, architecture and technology; recklessness and ambition, questioning western culture’s continual compulsion to tempt fate and reach for the unattainable. The performance blends together video projections, live musical saw by C. Ryder Cooley, digital vocal manipulation, sock puppets, song and spoken word, featuring fantastical costume designs by Joceyln Davis.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS PREMIERE:
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 -- DixonPlace, NYC
written & performed by samuael topiary
directed by miguel gutierrez
sound design by peter kerlin
video by peter & topiary
costumes design by jocelyn davis
video projection design by c. ryder cooley
live music by c. ryder cooley & peter kerlin