GONE or Who Is It Who Can Tell Me Who I Am (2009)
Part II in the performance series 'Zombies to Alzheimer’s' examining the theme of mutationin it’s many forms. Created in partnership with the Chicago Parks District, GONE or Who Is It Who Can Tell Me Who I Am travels through three levels of the dynamic Douglas Park Field House as an ensemble of physical theatre artists and musicians explore the ins and outs of memory and the fascinating ways our brains change. Using research, interviews, physical explorations of memory, Alzheimer's Disease, and 'Pleasant Dementia,' the GONE ensemble seeks to discover what is it that makes us who we are.
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GONE or Who Is It Who Can Tell Me Who I Am was developed over the course of seven months as an ensemble of performers, musicians, and designers with:
Director Stephanie M Acosta (Artistic Director of the Anatomy Collective.)
Performance Ensemble Phil Cottrell, Craig R Donavin, Lily Emerson (Movement Director & Artistic Director of Lucid Street Theatre,) Amy Jenson, Kieran Kredell, Carole McCurdy, and Tara Smith.
Music Director: Charlie Universe
Musical Ensemble: Charlie Universe and the Little Star Music Box, aka Richard Clarke, Chris Lange, and Rustel Weis
Costume Design by Aurora Tabar and Sara Thompson.
Lighting Design by Christine Ferriter (Resident Designer for the Anatomy Collective).
Sound Design by Rory Murphy.
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GONE or Who Is It Who Can Tell Me Who I Am was developed over the course of seven months as an ensemble of performers, musicians, and designers with:
Director Stephanie M Acosta (Artistic Director of the Anatomy Collective.)
Performance Ensemble Phil Cottrell, Craig R Donavin, Lily Emerson (Movement Director & Artistic Director of Lucid Street Theatre,) Amy Jenson, Kieran Kredell, Carole McCurdy, and Tara Smith.
Music Director: Charlie Universe
Musical Ensemble: Charlie Universe and the Little Star Music Box, aka Richard Clarke, Chris Lange, and Rustel Weis
Costume Design by Aurora Tabar and Sara Thompson.
Lighting Design by Christine Ferriter (Resident Designer for the Anatomy Collective).
Sound Design by Rory Murphy.
M o N s T e R / g i R L (2009)
Born out of an enthusiastic obsession with zombies, Monster/Girl began as a conversation about the myriad reasons why these creatures have become such a cultural fascination. This conversation led to unexpected places and excited questions, such as 'What makes us human? Who are we when we are no longer ourselves? Who are we without our memories, without our minds? And what happens when we become them?"
Monster/Girl is the first part of Lucid Anatomy's 'Zombies to Alzheimer's' (aka 'Z to A') series, examining what happens when we evolve past who we used to be and become someone (or something) else. It was originally created through a collaboration between Lucid Street Theatre's Lily Emerson (performer and creator), Charlie Universe (musical magician, sound artist, and idea man) and The Anatomy Collective's Stephanie Acosta (director, puppeteer).
Monster/Girl has so far been performed in Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Minsk, Belarus.
Run time is approximately 45 minutes with no intermission.
Monster/Girl is the first part of Lucid Anatomy's 'Zombies to Alzheimer's' (aka 'Z to A') series, examining what happens when we evolve past who we used to be and become someone (or something) else. It was originally created through a collaboration between Lucid Street Theatre's Lily Emerson (performer and creator), Charlie Universe (musical magician, sound artist, and idea man) and The Anatomy Collective's Stephanie Acosta (director, puppeteer).
Monster/Girl has so far been performed in Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Minsk, Belarus.
Run time is approximately 45 minutes with no intermission.
M o N s T e R / G i R L from Lily Emerson on Vimeo.
Monster/Girl photos by Eric Bartholomew and Stephanie Acosta
A Humechanical Nightmare (2008)
Press for "A Humechanical Nightmare":
"It was a mesmerizing act that not even a full force deluge could hope to undermine."
_________________________Hoopleton (Scroll down to the Looptopia entry, 5/03/2008)
"If the monsters from a zombie flick and a Stanley Kubrik film had a creepy baby, their kid would be A Humechanical Nightmare."
_________________________NBC5 Street Team
"Lucid Street Theatre brought something moving, something thought-provoking, and something incredibly, engagingly new."
_________________________NBC5 Street Team Comment
Up From the Earth (2008)
In the midst of downtown's hustle and bustle, a lone tree grows, flourishes, and weathers the elements.
An exploration of butoh and puppetry by Lily Emerson with music by Charles Malave.
Performed at Looptopia 2008.
Check out more pictures of A Humechanical Nightmare and Up From the Earth, photographed by the incomparable Emily and Mark, of New Words and Digital Democracy.
An exploration of butoh and puppetry by Lily Emerson with music by Charles Malave.
Performed at Looptopia 2008.
Check out more pictures of A Humechanical Nightmare and Up From the Earth, photographed by the incomparable Emily and Mark, of New Words and Digital Democracy.
i'm worried my body is falling apart. (2007)
Lucid Street Theatre's first official production: "all sorts of awkward, strange, sometimes lovely, often disconcerting
moments and movements, plus haunting music to go along with it. With grandma picnics, new born baby deer, old habits refusing to die, tiny swarms of insects eating away at my flesh, stalks and new limbs growing out of the earth, a moment of chiaroscuro, and my body, of
course, falling apart." Featuring the sounds of Charlie Universe and the Little Star Music Box.
moments and movements, plus haunting music to go along with it. With grandma picnics, new born baby deer, old habits refusing to die, tiny swarms of insects eating away at my flesh, stalks and new limbs growing out of the earth, a moment of chiaroscuro, and my body, of
course, falling apart." Featuring the sounds of Charlie Universe and the Little Star Music Box.