Sally Rousse “Paramount to my Footage”
A screen is stretch on the diagonal upstage left, the 2 lower corners taut by 2 ballerinas in white tutus and pointe shoes. The mountain from Paramount Motion Picture Company is projected against it....
View ArticleMegan Mayer “I Could Not Stand Close Enough to You”
5 performers, each in vintage laden bold colors- orange, blue, purple, yellow, red- stand in a line and stare at the house. The cast is “introduced” and I don’t need to look in my program to learn...
View ArticleSachiko Nishiuchi “The Apple Tree”
Edwin Suarez opens “The Apple Tree” as he gazes into a swirling blue pool centerstage. Black out. 2 silk screens unfold beneath the Southern Theater’s archway. I experience a projection of grass with...
View ArticleVanessa Voskuil “En Masse”
I enter the Southern Theater at 7:45pm and the performance has already begun. A group of performers, about 50 or so, are circling the stage walking, indifference on their faces. Their direction is...
View ArticleMomentum 2008: Eddie Oroyan
Eddie Oroyan: Brown Rocket “ I’m getting eaten by the same beast I’m trying to kill.” Wangechi Mutu, visual artist The tiger is symbolic of passion, power, devotion and sensuality. They are territorial...
View ArticleMomentum 2008: Anna Marie Shogren
Anna Marie Shogren: La Brea I see a tapestry of an ink drawing of elephants- a mother and her calf are safe on dry land as the father is drowning in a tar pit, his trunk extended to the heavens and his...
View ArticleMaggie Bergeron and Company
Maggie Bergeron collaborated with several artists for her Momentum production of House/Home. The miniature houses created by Russell Colliton featured a variety of shapes, sizes, materials, and...
View Articlethe SCREEN/the THING
3….2…..1……BLAST OFF!! Justin Jones is a problem solver, a mathematic wizard of Oz. In the SCREEN/the THING his outstanding cast including Anna Lawrence, Elliott Durko Lynch, Laura Grant, Christ...
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