The Reptile Under the Flowers
Conceived, Directed, and Designed by Janie Geiser
Music Composed by Valerie Opielski
Lighting Design by Bryan Yu
Puppet Costumes by Sarah Brown, Sandra Burns, Yelena Zhelezov, and Meejin Hong
Video Design by Christine Marie and Janie Geiser
Knitted Landscapes by DanRae Wilson
Performed by: Baxley Andresen, Kristy Baltezore, Moira MacDonald, Francisco Martinez, Gina Napolitan, Blake Young, Andrew Aronsohn, Nicole Emmons, Cindy Derby, Eli Presser, Catherine Strecker, and more...
Set Carpenter: Jerry Buzsek
Set and Puppet Construction Assistants: Keith Ballard, Yelena Zhelezov, Judith Anderson, Brenda Gausch, Eli Presser, Emily Mendelson, Maya Erdelyi, Meejin Hong, Laura Chechanowicz, Darius Mannino, and the cast of puppeteers.
The Reptile Under the Flowers is a diorama/performance using puppetry, peepshows, mechanical performing objects, miniature projections, and a miniature house, crumbling in the snow. Conceived and directed by Janie Geiser, The Reptile Under the Flowers will be performed by an ensemble of 16 puppeteers, with music composed by New York composer Valerie Opielski.
June 9-19, 2011
Thursday-Sunday evenings
at
The Giraffe Building
1652 W Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Two blocks west of Glendale Boulevard, near Echo Park and Downtown Los Angeles.
Street parking available on side streets near venue.
For tickets: Advance tickets highly recommended:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/178772
(when booking tickets, you will be given the option for specific start times each night)
Thursday, June 9 Performance times begin at 8:00 pm
Friday, June 10 Performance times begin at 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 11 Evening performance times begin at 8:00 pm
Sunday, June 12 Evening performance times begin at 8:00 pm
Thursday, June 16 Performance times begin at 8:00 pm
Friday, June 17 Performance times begin at 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 18 Performance times begin at 8:00 pm
Sunday, June 19 Performance times begin at 8:00 pm
For further information: email automata-la@sbcglobal.net
Tickets will be sold for specific entrance times, as the audience will enter in groups of 8 people every 15 minutes during performance times. For example, for the Thursday evening performance, tickets will be sold for 7:30, 7:45, 8:00 and so on. The full walk-through is about one hour. If you wish to enter with a specific group of people, please try to purchase all of the tickets at the same time for the same time slot, or adjoining slots. Children over 10 who are attending with adults are welcome. The patience of younger children may be tested by the form of viewing and the pace (slow) of the performance.
The Reptile Under the Flowers is funded, in part, through the generous support of the Jim Henson Foundation and the Durfee ARC Fund. Special thanks also to the Center for Cultural Innovation's Investing in Artists program, and the CalArts Faculty Development Fund.
to view Holly Willis' piece in Blur+Sharpen, from the work-in-progress of Reptile in 2009:
See also the feature in the Los Angeles Times on the Avant Garde puppetry community in Los Angeles:
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