vicious performances
Pity+Fear
The three deaths of Aglauros. A clusterfuck opera based on mythology, tragedy, physics, sexuality, and the subtle difference between flying and falling.
Conceived by Eric Meyer: In Development.
glASS (and other imponderables)
An in-the-moment performance meditation on Indra’s Net, the phenomenon that alchemies sand into glass, and what exactly constitutes polite behavior. Source material derived from such texts as Emily Post’s The Rules + Brian Greene’s “Darkness on the Edge of the Universe,” + Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Forever. Working with live sound design by Kenny Storms, Julie may or may not discover pomegranate seeds in her panties.
Conceived and performed by Julie Rada: February, 2011.
Missa Populi
This ain’t grace - this all fucked - this old thing. God is dead or dying, and all we have left is our broken and battered selves and the question we rode in on. Why. Missa Populi is a reclaiming of the Catholic Mass—an exploration and undermining from within—dissected and rebuilt in the guise of performance and the name of humanity. Combining the sacrifice, transcendence, blood and circumstance of the original with history, live music, science, dance, literature and pop culture to find a wholly modern communion experience that is all human. This is the People’s Mass.
Conceived and directed by Eric Meyer: March, 2010.
a murder one less
She is a plain and pensive woman. He is a rather ordinary man who lives in an extraordinary house. This house does algebraic equations and plots violence. According to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle one can never be exactly sure of both the velocity and the position of a particle. People (and houses) cannot always find out what they want to know. Uncertainty prevails. One evening, woman, man, and house collide; not all of them survive.
Conceived and directed by Julie Rada: August, 2009.
