ALCHEMY OF PUNK: A Live Punk Opera from Berlin
By: Rebecca Russo May. 19, 2017
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center's offsite presentation of Alchemy of Punk-a live punk opera and a work-in-progress from Berlin by Aneta Panek-just for one evening at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Featuring a video installation starring Berlin-based artists: soprano Simone Kermes, along with underground divaMona Mur and the legendary industrial musician En Esch (ex-KMFDM), as well as the Swiss conceptual artistDieter Meier, Japanese butoh dancer Yoriko Maeno, and Spanish dancer Meritxell Campos Olivé.
Performing live are New York-based artists: soprano singer Sofia Christensen, poet and burlesque artist Ember Flame, and dancer Kelly Vaghenas. (60 min.)
Presented by the Segal Center, in collaboration with The Watermill Center (Linda Jackson, Managing Director; Elka Rifkin, Watermill Center Director), and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Daniel Gallant, Executive Director).www.nuyorican.orgNew York Producer: Joy Sarah Arab. Berlin Producer: Jan Bek.
Aneta Panek, born in Warsaw, studied art history at the University Paris 4 Sorbonne, where her worked focused on the questions of transmediality in the arts, the uncanny in media and artistic exchanges between France, Germany and Poland. In 2011, her documentary My Heaven is Full of Music was included in the collection at the Museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Currently, Aneta Panek lives and works in Berlin, as experimental filmmaker.Her work is about the necessity of visualization and associative speculation in formulating and deconstructing theories and questioning reality. Her particular interests are alchemy, transmutation, subversion, and rebellion as means of self-liberation and self-discovery. A fifteen-minute excerpt from Panek's avant-garde video-installation Alchemy of Punk was screened during the Segal Center's 2017 Film Festival on Theater and Performance. www.anetapanek.net
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