LA Party

A fanatical vegan slides off the wagon one night, falling head-first into a wild L.A. bender. The short story spoken by David Barlow collides with live video in which six performers produce a compelling composite human being. Conceived and Directed by Phil Soltanoff. LA Party was originally produced at HERE Arts Center as part of UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 2010.

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Technical Rider

i/o

i/o is a live art piece that fuses sound installation, physical theatre, and opera to explore how people and machines co-exist today.

Six performers on wireless microphones are paired with six human-scale loudspeakers on stands, networked together via a computer program. Using voice recognition, the loudspeakers actually respond to the vocal gestures input by the performers, creating a dynamic feedback loop between the two. The sung, spoken, and physical gestures make up small vocabularies that are constantly reconfigured, delayed, and spatially multiplied, to generate a disorienting and hypnotic complexity from the simplest means.

The piece is conceived as a suite of sonic / choreographic movements, each with a radically different spatial arrangement:  a traditional proscenium, a large circle surrounding the audience, a small square inside the audience, a wall in front of the audience, and randomly dispersed through the performance space.  Each configuration – simply defined by a new arrangement of the performers and loudspeakers – invites the audience to arrange and define themselves in relation to the piece and each other.  Thus, choosing where to stand, what to see, and how to receive i/o becomes an integral part of the experience.

SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN......

Is about public space. It reacts to public space by painting it with choreographed movement. The movement is created in response to the specific qualities of a particular space and thus SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN...... is a movable feast—its concept remains the same but its particulars change based on the space where it’s constructed. SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN...... germinated at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2009 with the support of the Doris Duke Creative Exploration Fund. It was subsequently performed on Governors Island in New York City as part of the River-to-River Festival/SITELINES 2009 and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival again in 2011.

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Soltanoff/Findlay Project

Phil Soltanoff and Jim Findlay are collaborating on the creation of new work to premiere in 2011 at the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.

PLAN B

Directed by Phil Soltanoff in collaboration with Compagnie 111 of Toulouse, France. It features 4 juggler/acrobats and a basic geometric element — a plane. PLAN B premiered at Theatre Garonne in January 2003 and is currently on tour throughout Europe and Asia. It premiered at the New Victory Theatre, NYC in October, 2004.

For more information: contact@CIE111.com.