Multimedia Opera (2003)

I co-created (with Jamie Jewett) this evening-length performance that blended dance, an original score, and projections and more. The narrative is a contemporary re-imagining of the inventor Daedalus, finding him some years after Icarus’ death.

Animation excerpt from After the Fall.
8 minutes
In the middle of the performance there is a crucial scene where the performers movements suspend and this animation is presented. I created it using shadow puppets, live action and digital compositing.

About the show:
After the Fall reimagines Daedelus, the grandfather of technology, as the forlorn protagonist in an industrial
landscape of projected images. A sculptureal series of projection screens (lit by Juliet Chia) and an original score by Timothy Quigley (songs by Jeff Wallman) provide the environment in which Daedalus (Matt Schicker), Ariadne (Mira Kim) and an everyday Icarus (Ian Van Voorst) discover just how the real-time and video imaged world is only a symptom of the past’s impotence in healing the present.

Credits:
Concept and Video: Jamie Jewett and Aaron Henderson
Choreography: Jamie Jewett
Animation: Aaron Henderson
Dramaturgy: Thalia Field
Lighting: Juliet Chia
Music: Timothy Quigley
Songs: Jeff Wallman

Performance History:
2004 Green Street Studios, Boston, MA
2003 St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery, New York,

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