Roulette Presents: The Screen Above
A new performance for expanded cinema and dance created and directed by Josiah Cuneo
Wednesday February 27th, 2019
Performance 8pm / Doors 7pm
Roulette Intermedium
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
(917) 267-0368
roulette.org/event/josiah-cuneo-the-screen-above/
facebook.com/events/613571622406610/
Featuring:
Lulu Ward
Laurie Diezel
Anna Gichen
Anya Kress
Xiang Xu
Music performed by:
Jessica Pavone
Meaghan Burke
Nick Dunston
Josiah Cuneo
The Screen Above is a new multi-media performance featuring original choreography, music and live video created and directed by Josiah Cuneo. Employing narration as a theatrical device and trope, The Screen Above subverts conventions of spectatorship and performance as a means of exploring ideas of authority, conformity, rebellion, and improvisation. Here, each scene proposes centuries of obedience in relationship to an ancient screen that hovers above the stage and transmits views of the performance that would otherwise remain obscured or out of reach, transposing its omnipotence to the audience.
Woven between simultaneous spatial, temporal and perspectival shifts of performances on stage and on screen, a narrator and four dancers reveal underlying themes through a complex system of verbal and non-verbal cues in tandem with original musical scores interpreted by Jessica Pavone on viola, Meagan Burke on cello, Nick Dunston on double bass.
Engaging the audience in a spatiotemporal dynamic that exposes the fissures between image and reality, The Screen Above pushes the boundaries of representation through the interaction of filmed sequences, flat projected images, and performers.
For Press Requests / Listings:
Caitlin Gleason
caitlin@roulette.org
Rachel Lyngholm
rachel@roulette.org
