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New York City Premiere
VERDENSTEATRET

And All the Question Marks Started to Sing
an art machine played by musicians, performers and robots
Co-presented with Dance Theater Workshop and Performance Space 122

February 24 - 26 at 7:30
February 27 at 5pm

Last year FuturePerfect produced Kurt Hentschlager's astonishing fog, stroboscopic, and sound installation ZEE at 3LD Art & Technology Center. It was one of the most talked about media experiences of 2009.

Continuing with its bold and genre-breaking programming, FuturePerfect presents the New York premiere of And All the Question Marks Started to Sing, a bewilderingly complex orchestration of shadow, animation, object theater, robotics, and sound by the acclaimed Norwegian-based art collective Verdensteatret.

In this high-powered performance, company members "play" and manipulate an intricate array of kinetic sculptures assembled from the refuse of everyday life---bicycle wheels, hand-twisted and soldered scraps of metal cable and levers, lenses, celluloid film strips, obsolete amplifier tubes and other electromechanical contraptions---to create a constantly transforming landscape of deeply poetic images and sound.  Bringing artists of different backgrounds together, the work shows Verdensteatret's fascination with all kinds of animation--the strange and miraculous activity of breathing life into dead objects, stiff figures, and frozen images.

For nearly 25 years, Verdensteatret has created original works at the intersection of theater, visual art, and music. Though they are often considered theater, Verdensteatret's creations have been featured in as many galleries and biennales as black boxes. Verdensteatret riffs on the animation filmmakers the Quay Brothers and Ladislav Starevich, the automata and mechanical toys of the 19th century, modern kinetic and conceptual sculpture, the early electronic music (1920 - 1960), among other influences, to create their own unique hybrid of performance, installation and concert.

Venue: Dance Theater Workshop, Bessie Schönberg Theater,  219 West 19th Street, New York City
Video Trailer:  http://vimeo.com/18347791
Tickets:  https://engage.dancetheaterworkshop.org/show_events_list.asp?shcode=665
$20
DTW Directions:  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=219+w+19th+s...
www.futureperfectfestival.org
www.verdensteatret.com

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