Cold Spring

Making of Cold Spring (4 minutes)

from Sean Griffin

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www.vimeo.com/​channels/​coldspring www.seangriffin.org Berkshire on Stage:
"Cold Spring was a mind-bending, jaw-dropping show. ... Actors were strewn about what I took to be archival storage compartments or file drawers. They were retrieved and dusted off, brought to life, or given a brief examination. When they had served their purpose, they returned to the oblivion from which they came... When the curtain came down, the audience sat stunned and…

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    Making of Cold Spring (4 minutes)

    by Sean Griffin

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    www.vimeo.com/​channels/​coldspring www.seangriffin.org Berkshire on Stage:
"Cold Spring was a mind-bending, jaw-dropping show. ... Actors were strewn about what I took to be archival storage compartments or file drawers. They were retrieved and dusted off, brought to life, or given a brief examination. When they had served their purpose, they returned to the oblivion from which they came... When the curtain came down, the audience sat stunned and…

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    excerpts from Cold Spring 1 (of 2)

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    EMPAC 12/4/10 Sean Griffin's Cold Spring http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/fall... Excerpts from Acts I & II @0:00 - Act I: 2 The Nordic Eugenics Devil, disguised as naturalist Ernst (UG) Haeckel, seduces members of the medical and scientific communities into an unethical dance. @1:34 - Act I: 3 Frightening 19th century ghosts haunt the archives. Like cruel children, they toy with the citizens of the 20th century and choose Betty and Barney Hill.…

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    Excerpts from Cold Spring 2 (of 2)

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    EMPAC 12/4/10 Sean Griffin's Cold Spring http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/fall... Excerpts from Acts III & IV @0:00 - Act III: 1 Betty gets strung out in the 70s and @ 1:14 wakes up in the 80s as a forgotten woman (Royce monologue) @ 4:12 - Act III: 3 The Betty/Eugenics Cartouche @6:48 Act III: 4 Lil' Buster is exploited @9:05 - Act IV: 1 Hurried Militaristic Forest Rabbit Dance @10:24 - Act IV: 3 Through hypnosis, Barney achieves meaning,…

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    EMPAC Commissions: Sean Griffin: Cold Spring - behind the scenes excerpts

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    Cold Spring was an intermedia statement about how we experience information, evidence, old science and belief and how our illusory notions of scientific objectivity form our haunted personal experiences. This story is told through the re-interpretation of 3 main elements. 1. A theatrical and musical interpretation of the actual 1965 hypnosis transcripts from the 1961 alien abduction memories of Betty and Barney Hill, a young suburban, interracial…

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    Eric Ameres video chat

    by Sean Griffin

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    Berkshire on Stage:
"Cold Spring was a mind-bending, jaw-dropping show... Actors were strewn about what I took to be archival storage compartments or file drawers. They were retrieved and dusted off, brought to life, or given a brief examination. When they had served their purpose, they returned to the oblivion from which they came."

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    Stacy Ellen Rich collaborates on Cold Spring

    by Sean Griffin

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    www.vimeo.com/channels/coldspring Berkshire on Stage:
"Cold Spring was a mind-bending, jaw-dropping show. ... Actors were strewn about what I took to be archival storage compartments or file drawers. They were retrieved and dusted off, brought to life, or given a brief examination. When they had served their purpose, they returned to the oblivion from which they came... When the curtain came down, the audience sat stunned and speechless. After perhaps…

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    Cold Spring 3

    by Sean Griffin

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    A Scene from Sean Griffin's Cold Spring Act 2:3 The dinner guests contemplate the 1924 Immigration Act Barney Hill says, "Do I remind you of somebody?" after reading the list, Betty Hill says, "Oo! Déjà vu!" ...but Betty isn't French.

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Cold Spring

Created by Sean Griffin

sites.google.com/site/seangriffinworks
Berkshire on Stage:
"Cold Spring was a mind-bending, jaw-dropping show. ... far more than theatre, embracing choreography,music and projections into more of an experience... When the curtain came down, the audience sat stunned and speechless. After perhaps a minute of silence it responded with applause that rose up like an ocean swell."

"Griffin’s sensitivity to texture, rhythm

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sites.google.com/site/seangriffinworks
Berkshire on Stage:
"Cold Spring was a mind-bending, jaw-dropping show. ... far more than theatre, embracing choreography,music and projections into more of an experience... When the curtain came down, the audience sat stunned and speechless. After perhaps a minute of silence it responded with applause that rose up like an ocean swell."

"Griffin’s sensitivity to texture, rhythm and density was often masterful" -Times Union

"Cold Spring is something that I hope has resonance outside the spectacle of its performance. At its core, the piece is an attempt to bring museums and archives together with performing institutions and local artists for mutual self-reflection and appreciation of each other as cultural thinkers. Hopefully the work initiates and empowers an active interpretation of our lives as they relate to science and our notion of what constitutes meaningful progress."

...something many artists working in time-based forms can relate to; that of creating multiple temporal ideology-flows and trying to balance them as they encounter and ride the discursive boundary between things people can clearly define and those wonderful dives into mystery.

"In popular culture people tend to talk about David Lynch when this type of experience comes about... an abnormally intense experience." Micah Silver



Interview:
newmusicbox.org/articles/setting-cold-spring-in-motion/1


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