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Two performances of immersive
multi-media concert spectacle to be
presented at ATLAS Black Box
Studio, Saturday, Feb. 28
"What I Saw at the Apocalypse," an immersive performance/concert/ installation/spectacle conceived by University of Colorado music professor Michael Theodore,
will be presented at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, in the Black Box Studio in the CU ATLAS building.
Theodore's production is a collaboration with the ATLAS Center for Arts, Media and Performance, master folk
musician Tim Eriksen, painter Michael Kuch, sculptor Talice Lee, choreographer Michelle Ellsworth, actor/director Elizabeth Jochum, violinist Lina Bahn, saxophonist John Gunther, and a large number
of student performers. Theodore also is directing the music and creating animated projections.
Tickets: The two performances are free and open to the public. Audience members are encouraged to arrive early.
This event is part of the "Apocalypse and Transformation" Colloquium being presented by the Center
for Humanities and the Arts at CU-Boulder.
The colloquium is a series of events exploring the interplay between ending and beginning, destruction and rebirth, prevailing chaos and emergent order. It includes a year-long faculty and graduate student seminar, a series of lectures and public performances.
Theodore's work is inspired by the rich legacy of multimedia works created by such artists as John Cage, Robert Wilson and the Bauhaus school, and takes advantage of the rich array of
technologies available in the Center for Art, Media and Performance's Black Box Studio.
The center's mission is to motivate people with distinct viewpoints, interests and relationships to investigate dynamic combinations of arts, technology, education and society.
ATLAS is an institute for undergraduate, graduate and outreach programs that supports technology education for people and programs that traditionally do not have access to equipment and resources.
ATLAS is located just north of the Euclid parking garage at CU.
The Black Box Studio is in the lower level, B2.
CU music professor, musician and producer
Michael Theodore
On the evening of February 28th, 2009, people will walk into the hall and find a performance/installation already in progress.
There are no seats (actually, there are a small number for people who request them at the door). Projections surround the audience on all sides.
Musicians are spread through the room, some in fixed positions, some wandering around, mixing in with the audience. There's a rock band, classical string players, free jazz horn players, tuba players, and laptop musicians.
Punk/folk legend Tim Eriksen has flown in to Boulder for the show, and he's singing throughout the evening.
Michelle Ellsworth has brought a group of dancers who are sometimes featured with lights, and who sometimes blend in with the audience. Elizabeth Jocum has brought a crew of actors, reciting Dante's Inferno in Italian, and performing Butoh inspired movements.
Michael Kuch (whose work is collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Getty Museum) has created a series of extraordinary paintings for the show, all of which are incorporated into the projections.
The evening has distinct cycles of activity. There are times when there is a prolonged, contemplative stillness in the room. There are times when the collected forces create an overwhelming explosion of creativity in the enclosed space.
It is an evening unlike most others...