Title: Anicent
Venue and Format: Online
Innovation: A primarily video-installation that focuses on repetition and meditation. This art speaks to and asks audiences to focus on the repetition of the daily task.
San Diego-based artists Mike Sears and Lisa Berger are creating Ancient, a Playhouse-commissioned video installation that explores the relationship between repetition and meditation, the routine and the ancient. With an original score composed by Shawn Rohlf for cello, piano and guitar, text by Rainer Maria Rilke, and a company of nine actors, Ancient invites the audience to observe an unfolding of day-to-day tasks that have been in play for centuries. An opportunity to experience nothing happening – and everything happening. A reminder that we have been here before and that somehow, we go on.
THEATRE/COMPANY: La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival
ARTISTS:
Created by Mike Sears and Lisa Berger
Composed by Shawn Rohlf
Performed by Jennifer Chang, Caitie Grady, Temi Hason, Bibi Mama, Bhavna Megta, Joey Prete, Daniel Lin
Edited by Alex Boehnlein
DATE OF PREMIERE: Summer 2020
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
CATEGORY: Online
