The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery, Nov. 3rd + 4th

The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery 

dissertation performance piece by Jacob Richman


8pm, Saturday and Sunday, November 3rd and 4th, 2012
Mathewson Street United Methodist Church
134 Mathewson St. Providence, RI
FREE

 The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery is a multimedia installation and roving performance piece based on a murder story that took place in Rhode Island in the early 1990s. It is a setting which utilizes four dancers, nine musicians, and almost a dozen rooms of the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church in downtown Providence. It is a mobile murder ballad based on dreams and echoes, fragmented words, images, sounds, and objects inspired by this heartbreaking story. In The (unfinished) Ballad… the audience moves throughout the five floors of the building, filled with performers and various interactive media technology, from large video projections to nine-foot tall robotic curtains, cell phone buzzers, broken lobster traps, blue cellophane, cloth, and the haunting presence of the historic Mathewson St. Church itself, all unified to recreate and reinterpret a tragic and unexplainable act of violence and the folklore that surrounds it.

 Featuring:

Adrian Moore, Anna Muselmann, Brandon Shaw, and Stephanie Turner (dancers/choreographers)
 Yayra Sanchez (soprano)

Aliana de la Guardia (mezzo soprano)
Rossana Chung, Abigale Reisman (violin)
Ken Allen (viola)
Anna Seda (cello)

Kirsten Volness (piano/keyboard) 

Peter McGrath (trumpet)
Jeffrey Neilson (percussion)

Matt Desmarais (seismic activity)


For more information visit: http://www.jacob-richman.com/ballad.html

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Thanks for your support!
Jacob