NYC: Crossing The Line Festival
L’Alliance New York
Alessandro Sciarroni: I Will Be There When You Die, 2017. La Mama Experimental Theater
2017
Dickie Beau: (BlackOuts)
Judy Garland tapes play the monologue for this Drag Show at The Abrons Art Center, NY. The Black Box Theater, begins with the audience sitting on the stage. Completely unbeknown to us, until Dickie Beau raises the curtains that opens to the empty Proscenium hall. The story of Judy, her spirit, and herself recorded on tape recorder, taking us into the actress’s personal life.
Content
Curated to the festival of performances builds on the message of a global community. Our discovery into the worlds of artists, in a diverse place-making, and supportive creative ecosystem invites you to follow artists. This documents the argument of participation, which these artists mean to bring to the audience. The sketches reflect a fast moving immediacy, elaborate, and textured. It lends archival material to critique and add our multiple points of view, and inspiration. Leading us into the original source, or creating content that is also relevant, but more diverging into our own sequels.
Audiences
Inspiration to interpretations, an assemblage of moving parts, then one can say the audience is part of the art. Our input increasingly matters for the creation of theater. Surprisingly, new technology has brought more distractions before critically, inhabiting the deep work that contemporary artists seek for in their reviews. The purpose of multimodal media on stage is to appropriate a clear metaphor of the physical world. In conceptualizing light and sound, in a fractured world, our theory of change for viewers is for audiences to ask,
How does the media get inside your head?
WHYSEEART
How do we embody it? Identity to its main messages. Is it the subject of close proximity. Sound, lighting, and scenery dramatically alters itself to consciousness. When we feel grief, shame, or happiness in a wide frame of visuals, reference to our lives, and it situates them into this event by where they stand, we reflect on the stake we hold in our own lives.
The illustrations from sketching in the audience is a way to understand the multitude of humanity that takes on many different cultural milieus.
Partnership
For the past several years, since traveling abroad, WHYSEEART continues to document art for art’s sake. Imagine being in someone else’s shoes, and imitate their motion, even speaking to the dance artists involved in creating the artwork, about what their immediate impression of the work is. The mimesis that occurs through performances is an ephemeral art form across many people, and many lands. Since beginning to draw from the ritual of performance art, we have created many portfolios examining the gesture and conversation, in theory and in real time transformations happening on stage.
The intent for Contemporary Art to bring forth audiences which resonate with the theme of public art begins to partner with the space. We explore public space and socio-reality in how it changes in readings and in the environment. Why somethings appear awkwardly, symbolic and translate strongly for others. It suggests an auto-rhetorical response; autonomy of feeling in a unique disposition that only one is receptive to the meaning by their individual regard. Public art is on a social scale, and opening up access to more individuals into contemporary art bridges audiences from different places to a collective thought. On a similar level as Art for Art’s Sake, WHYSEEART gathers analysis illustrated from the point of view of the audience. The audiences’ intent is a new space for critical inquiry.
Theater is a visceral experience. In relation to art history this transcendental quality can refer to ritual, or ceremonial arts in sculpture & architecture through the ages. The ceremonial, a spiritual or séance, and connecting to the inner being of forms as a means to the reception of art in its essence. A theater space addresses making-place for public art in the social aspect of civil and with inheritance, explains aesthetics translated to grounding rituals. Art on the basis of public art, and ceremonial art brings us to the core value of communal beings.
Performance art, in a social space where the civic logos is determined by hierarchies, oligarchies, democratic parties, or an activist demonstration, and the voice for political theater has in theatrical performances a fixture in revolutionary literature, a collective consciousness, or deep structural patterns.
WHYSEEART is a brand for contemporary artists in Q&A with the general public. A curiosity for the informal and classical approach taken directly from the curio that offers value for the viewer through inspiration and its unusual content.
What kinds of Theaters are there?
Off-Broadway productions are based on minute trends, and many different directions. The sociology and anthropology creates intersections. Many of these intersections lead to larger avenues and interventions of common language that relay a shared emotional response to the universal being.
Modern dance, a convergence of disciplines of dance theater that blurs the distinction of dance and theater. The influence of prevailing dance companies or choreographers are known as the precursor to a larger movement specific to a period of art history, respectively Post-Modern Art of the 20th century.
Contemporary opera, classical genre of orchestral music or chamber music, tap dance and other classical theater techniques represented in the literary arts and rhetorical art forms in the succession of accepted or pre-existing formulas founded by ancient myth making. Affiliates of an art form inadvertently prescribes to facets of a group, identity, or an inheritance.
The New Yorker contributes a list of “Happenings Around Town” to learn more about what is happening in the sense of content by our contemporaries. Create your own audience reviews Dance-Enthusiast.com
The cultural relevance in media, that audiences descend upon, and maybe, momentarily into a movement of solidarity, with a critical view on the medium.
The history of broadcasting shows how many of us are moved by productions targeted at us. And since the beginning of American Musical Theater producers and song writers captured a national craze, with popular music, drawing artists to Hollywood, and all during a time that Jazz, and classical music began to mix, tonally and politically in the U.S… Such was the case when the, Tin Pan Alley in NYC was alive and well with recordings by contemporary vocal artists while radio, moving pictures, and Extravaganzas or Live Variety Shows were gathering public acclaim.
WHYSEEART raises the question of the contemporary audience that comments, and draw on the content being addressed to viewers and audiences alike. Moving into new technology that gives way to a graphic design.
Crossing the line festival brings artists, performance, and cultural experiences in francophile fashion by L’Alliance New York. (artists from top- bottom: DaCamera of Houston, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Jeanne Balibar, Bouchra ouisiguen, Trajal Harell, Somi kakoma.)
Sun and Sea
Contemporary Opera at the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival composed by Lina Lapelytė, realized by Rugilė Barzdźiukaitė, and libretto by Viva Grainytė. It was like stepping onto a movie set.
Sun & Sea (Marina) Opera on the sandy beach of North Philly during the Fringe Festival 2021. Mannerisms in opera shift to exaggerate a hyper real form of language and ambiguity in its behavior that excite our interests.
Taking a trip to North Philly was really part of the whole performance in the warehouse where the production took place was in North West Philly. Arriving at the warehouse there, for a picturesque urban sight of the ghetto and then again an artificial beach. It was a stage brightly lit for a sandy vacation to reimagine environmental art as we climb up to the tier above the scene. The scene was completely hysterical, and it transpired along lyrical notes, and set to illustrate with its environment.
Breaking the Waves
Best New International Opera in 2017
Recently, in 2023 they were seen working together on THE LISTENERS which streamed on Fedora Opera Channel, and their debut of “Breaking the Waves” in Philadelphia introduced volumes, the visual narrative changed the mood with each mode of visual story telling from language, musicality, sets, chorus, and especially with this explicit material. In 2024, we are excited to see Opera Philadelphia begin the 24/25 season with THE LISTENERS.
I was fresh off the plane from the Edinburgh International and Fringe Festival. Working at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Opera Philadelphia a resident artist was to feature a new Opera. After two weeks of drawing from performance artists, theater artists, and connecting with companies with my illustrations on Twitter/ X, I was convinced “Breaking The Waves“ sounded like a chance to continue this sort of work.
The production as an operetta adapted from a film. I studied elements of adaptation at the University of Pennsylvania. Adaptative studies is this exciting discipline within/between genre’s, and contemporary opera was like another exploration in transforming modes and mediums. Afterwards, I had the chance to meet the creators, Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek.
✓ Profane Language✓ Erotic
✓ Contemporary✓ Opera
