[HvEXAS] Marie Brassard: Trieste free multimedia theater performance | Sat Apr 27, 8 PM | EMPAC

PERFORMANCE

Marie Brassard: Trieste
Saturday, April 27, 2013, 8 PM
EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

FREE (reservations recommended)

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/trieste

Trieste: a contemporary fable inspired by the town of Trieste woven through movement, text, and video

 
Marie Brassard and Infrarouge, her Montreal-based theater company, will finish developing their latest work, Trieste, during an EMPAC production residency. Trieste is a contemporary fable inspired by the Italian city of the same name located on the Adriatic Sea.
 
The performance unfolds in five segments, each relating to one feature of Trieste: The Abyss, The Caves, The Sea, The Castles, and The Bora. As in the board game Snakes and Ladders, where destiny is randomly decided, protagonists climb or fall from one level to another through breaches in the storyline.
 
During their residency, the company will concentrate on the development of reactive video, light, and sound environments. The intention is to adapt stage technology to create an environment where each component behaves with a mix of accidental and planned responses to the actions of the performers.
 
After several years of collaboration with director Robert Lepage, actress, director, and author Marie Brassard decided to set up her own platform for creating work.
 
Since 2001, her Montreal-based company, Infrarouge, has created diverse and multidisciplinary works such as Jimmy (2001), The Darkness (2003), Peepshow (2005), The Glass Eye (2007), The Invisible (2008), and Me Talking to Myself in the Future (2010). In addition to the company's newest work Trieste, a dance solo for Sarah Williams entitled Moving in this World is in development. Infrarouge has presented work in several countries throughout Europe, the Americas, and in Australia.
 
Current collaborators include musicians and performance artists Jonathan Parant and Alexandre St-Onge, set designer Simon Guilbault, lighting designer Mikko Hynninen, filmmaker Karl Lemieux, and technical director Vincent Repentigny.

+ Marie Brassard: http://infrarouge.org/?cat=26&lang=en

+ Infrarouge: http://infrarouge.org/

 
This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made in person at the EMPAC Box Office or over the phone at 518.276.3921. Tickets will be available for pick-up starting at 6 PM the evening of the performance; they must be claimed by 7:45 PM or they will be released.

Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues after the event. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.
 
More information can be found on the EMPAC website: empac.rpi.edu. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

EMPAC 2012-2013 presentations, residencies, and commissions are made possible by continuous support from the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. Additional project support by the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the New York State Council for the Arts; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, and Fond for Utøvende Kunstner.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180