Ann Hamilton & SITI Company's THE THEATER IS A BLANK PAGE Opens 4/28
The Center for the Art of Performance is honored to bring back New York-based SITI Company. A world-renowned ensemble, SITI Company is lauded for its innovation and the creation of new forms of theater that challenge accepted norms and defy classification. Their recent work, the theater is a blank page, is a much-heralded collaboration with celebrated visual artist Ann Hamilton, internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multimedia installations. This immersive performance installation utilizes the entirety of the theater, as the audience is led through the balconies, to the production shops, into the wings and finally onto the stage itself. With text drawn directly from Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel To the Lighthouse, the novel’s evocative language and inventive narrative—which skillfully deploy shifting temporal and psychological perspectives alongside poignant ruminations on loss, subjectivity, and perception—make it a fertile point of departure for artists of different disciplines to find deep kinship in a collaboration addressing the experience of reading and being read to.
"UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents the return of New York-based Siti Company in the West Coast premiere of the theater is a blank page, a much-heralded collaboration with celebrated visual artist Ann Hamilton. The site-specific performance and interdisciplinary installation, which blends elements of theater, visual art and literature, will run from Saturday, April 28 to Saturday, May 12 at Royce Hall. Tickets for $119 are now available online at cap.ucla.edu, via Ticketmaster, by phone 310-825-2101 and at the UCLA Central Ticket Office.Co-directed by Hamilton, winner of the National Medal of Arts, and acclaimed SITI co-artistic director Anne Bogart, the project draws equally on Siti Company's impeccable skills as theater-makers, pushing their aesthetic into fresh, new territory. A world-renowned ensemble, Siti Company is lauded for its innovation and the creation of new forms of theater that challenge accepted norms and defy classification.
the theater is a blank page is a meditation on Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. With text drawn directly from the modernist masterpiece, the novel's evocative language and inventive narrative - which skillfully deploy shifting temporal and psychological perspectives alongside poignant ruminations on loss, subjectivity and perception - make it a fertile point of departure for artists of different disciplines to find deep kinship in a collaboration addressing the experience of reading and being read to. It is also a response to the enduring power of words in a digital landscape."— BWW News Desk, Apr. 19, 2018
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