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Created and Directed by Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello Choreography: Dawn Stoppiello, in collaboration with the dancers Music/Video: Mark Coniglio Dancers: Robert Clark, Katryn Jackson, Johanna Levy, Daniel Suominen Lighting Design: Susan Hamburger Video Assistance: Katrin Jedon Dramaturgy: Peter C. von Salis Lush imagery vibrates against funnel clouds of physicality as 100,000 years of human evolution are condensed into Troika Ranch’s evening length dance, theater and media performance 16 [R]evolutions. The work focuses on a single evolutionary path: how the animal drives of our pre-human ancestors have become sublimated to the point of abject confusion and disconnection. In stark contrast to this path, are exquisite three-dimensional visuals that warp and morph in direct response to the dancers movement, becoming more “animal” than the characters on stage. (At one moment the performers dance with delicate, living strands of DNA, at another, a gigantic digital rib cage ripples and breathes as it envelopes their movement.) 16 [R]evolutions asks the question, can we reconnect with our core needs to feed, fight and reproduce while continuing to evolve into beings of light and intellect? 16 [R]evolutions will premiere at the new 3LD Art & Performance Center in lower Manhattan in January 2006. Development Partners: Essexdance (UK) & The Arts Council England East (UK) About Troika Ranch Complex, layered, and visually striking, Troika Ranch’s works combine dance, theater, and digital media into a unified whole. For the past ten years, they have explored the tension between the organic and the electronic as they portrayed the balance between beauty and despair. Recognized worldwide as leaders in the exploration of dance and new technology, they have been dubbed “interactive performance pioneers” by the New York Times and “multimedia mavericks” by the Village Voice. Troika Ranch - Comments of the press: “Multimedia mavericks Troika Ranch have created an oxymoron: warm, glowy conceptual art. The movement of the dancers, who are wired to a computer, releases both music and a beautiful idea—that whole cities of sound are immanent in the air, and human motion makes them visible” Village Voice, NY “Interactive performance pioneers” New York Times, NY “…taught, vigorous dancing tears into very handsome out flung movement. Coniglio and Stoppiello enmesh performers in interactive webs of sound and video that tinker with our perceptions.” Village Voice, NY “A rich weave of ideas and media.” New York Times, NY “…lush soundscapes with eddies and funnel clouds of physicality…a fantasia of imagined physics – chimerical, alchemical gigabytes.” Dance Insider, NY “Couple’s innovative work hits mark…stimulating from start to finish.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer “…the program’s [Dance Kaleidoscope] most original piece may have been Dawn Stoppiel-lo’s solo ‘In Plane’ for Troika Ranch...she inter-acted with video images of herself in intriguing live-versus-tape duets.” LA Times “Coniglio’s [music] consistently expresses a deep, sustained heaviness and ferocity. Powered by big drum sounds, surging phrases, and throbbing rhythms, it attacks the listener with stealth and force.” Keyboard Magazine » 16 (R)EVOLUTIONS Photos » TROIKA RANCH Homepage |
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