Two extraordinary artists share a program that eloquently demonstrates how wordless performance paired with evocative visuals can cast new light on theatrical storytelling. Drawing on centuries-old traditions and new technologies alike, Christine Marie and Miwa Matreyek use the seductive power of the projected image, but through strikingly different means. Christine Marie and her collaborators generate large-scale imagery from simple handheld lights and props, blended with live actors into an incandescent work of expressionist theater. Animation and performance artist Miwa Matreyek places her body within meticulously constructed realms of fantasy-driven animation to create live works in which hallucinatory logic unveils timeless journeys. But both artists delight in the wondrous possibilities that lie at the intersection of the dramatic and the cinematic.

GROUND TO CLOUD PRODUCTION CREDITS

Written/conceived by Christine Marie

Directed by Christine Marie

Composed by William Mark

MYTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE PRODUCTION CREDITS

Created and performed by Miwa Matreyek

Music by Anna Oxygen, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn and Caroline Lufkin

Magic Hands scene song: by Anna Oxygen

RUN TIME: 50 minutes

LOCATION: LATC: 4^th Floor

Los Angeles Theatre Center

514 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 | Map

PARKING: $5–6 event parking at several locations off Main and 6th Streets.